Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Launchpad
The 20 closest software forge alternatives to Launchpad, ranked by what they actually offer.
Looking for an alternative to Launchpad? The closest matches are Gitea, GitLab and Codeberg e.V.. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Launchpad
Launchpad launchpad.net
Launchpad
Wikidata: software forge
Summary by Claude
Launchpad is a free software collaboration and hosting service run by Canonical, offering bug tracking, Git code hosting, Ubuntu package building via Personal Package Archives, translation management, Q&A support tracking and feature planning for open-source projects.
- Who it’s for
- Open-source software developers and Ubuntu contributors
- Business model
- Free service funded by Canonical
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Launchpad’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Launchpad
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Launchpad, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Gitea Official Website
Gitea - Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD
Very close cos 0.897 - 02
GitLab - Speed with control for agentic software engineering
Teams and agents ship trusted software faster with GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform with context and governance for the entire software lifecycle.
Close cos 0.893 - 03
Codeberg.org
Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.
Close cos 0.890 - 04
GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub
Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.
Close cos 0.891 - 05
The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Close cos 0.887 - 06
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Close cos 0.884 - 07
The knowledge layer for AI | GitBook
GitBook is a knowledge platform that connects your docs, product and users, answers user questions, and identifies knowledge gaps. Docs-as-code support & AI insights included.
Close cos 0.884 - 08
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Close cos 0.884 - 09
Git
distributed version control system
Close cos 0.882 - 10
Arch Linux
Linux distribution
Close cos 0.881 - 11
Choose your Region - Cookpad
Thousands of authentic recipes from around the world, recommended and tested by home cooks. Save your favourites and share your own on Cookpad.
Close cos 0.879 - 12
Modrinth
Download Minecraft mods, plugins, datapacks, shaders, resourcepacks, and modpacks on Modrinth. Discover and publish projects on Modrinth with a modern, easy to use interface and API.
Close cos 0.879 - 13
Compare B2B Software, Download, & Develop Open Source & Business Software - SourceForge
SourceForge is the complete software discovery platform. SourceForge is the largest B2B software review and comparison site in the world, and features the largest business software directory, as well as free & fast open source software downloads and development.
Close cos 0.876 - 14
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Close cos 0.877 - 15
Ollama · Run AI models locally and in the cloud
Ollama is the easiest way to run and build with open AI models locally or in the cloud on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Close cos 0.877 - 16
Welcome – Gentoo Linux
The website of Gentoo, a flexible Linux distribution.
Close cos 0.876 - 17
Bitbucket | Git solution for teams using Jira
Bitbucket Cloud is a Git-based code and CI/CD tool optimized for teams using Jira.
Close cos 0.875 - 18
Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.
Close cos 0.874 - 19
Composer
A Dependency Manager for PHP
Close cos 0.874 - 20
Wattpad - Stories to obsess over
Wattpad connects a global community of millions of readers and writers through the power of story
Close cos 0.875
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to launchpad.net’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Launchpad uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Launchpad is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
We didn’t recognise any technologies on launchpad.net.
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Launchpad adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on launchpad.net 16/20
- Google Workspace · not on launchpad.net 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on launchpad.net 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on launchpad.net 7/20
- Apple Business · not on launchpad.net 6/20
- Atlassian · not on launchpad.net 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on launchpad.net 6/20
- OpenAI · not on launchpad.net 5/20
- nginx · not on launchpad.net 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on launchpad.net 4/20
- DocuSign · not on launchpad.net 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on launchpad.net 4/20
- Fastly · not on launchpad.net 4/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on launchpad.net 3/20
- HubSpot · not on launchpad.net 3/20
- Nuxt · not on launchpad.net 3/20