Alternatives

The following table lists alternative tools and projects that you can use to make local-first apps. If we’ve missed one or the information is incorrect please let us know.

Name URL Maturity Consistency Offine P2P SQL Constraints Active-active Conflict-free Realtime-reactive Open-source Turnkey service
Realm (Mongo) realm.io high eventual true false false local true true true true true
Firebase (Google) firebase.google.com high causal true false false false true true true false true
Pouch (Apache CouchDB) pouchdb.com high eventual true true false false true false true true false
Litestream (Fly.io) litestream.io low read replicas true false true local false false false true false
LiteFS (Fly.io) superfly/litefs low read replicas true false true local false false false true true
Ampli-sync ampliapps.com medium eventual true false true local true false false true false
Aphrodite aphrodite.sh low causal true true true false true true true true false
Evolu evoluhq/evolu low unknown true true partial false true true true true planned
InstantDB (Datascript) instantdb.com low unknown true false false false true unknown true false false
Homebase (Datahike) homebase.io low unknown true false false false true true true true false
Supabase supabase.com high n/a false false false server side false false true true true
Apollo (GraphQL) apollographql.com high n/a true false false server side false false true true false
Relay (GraphQL) relay.dev high n/a true false false server side false false true true false
Ditto ditto.live medium causal true false false false true true true false true
Concordant concordant.io low causal true true false false true true true true false
Mycelial mycelial.com low causal true true true false true true true true n/a
Pocketbase pocketbase.io medium n/a true false false false false n/a true true n/a
TinyBase tinybase.org low n/a true false false false false n/a true true false
Harper harperdb.io medium eventual true false partial server side false false false false true
Watermelon nozbe/WatermelonDB medium n/a true false true relations n/a n/a true true false
Gun gun.eco medium causal true true false false true true true true false
Convex convex.dev medium unknown true false false false true true true false false
Redwood (Braid) redwood.dev low unknown true true false false true true true true false
remoteStorage.js remotestorage.io high eventual true false false false true false false true true
RxDB rxdb.info high timeline true false false false true false true true false
Hypermerge automerge/hypermerge medium causal true true false false true true true true false
Yjs yjs.dev high state vectors true true false false true true true true false
SOLID solidproject.org high n/a true true false false false false false true true
Kinto kinto-storage.org high n/a true false false false false true true true false
ShareDB share/sharedb medium eventual true false false false true true true true false
OrbitDB orbitdb.org high eventual true true false false true true true true false

Non-comparisons

Note that we have not included: