A hands-on reference on open-source hotel software, compiled by RapidEye Research in July and August 2026: 28 verified statistics covering the size and staleness of the GitHub hotel software landscape, QloApps' dominance of the category, the maintenance reality behind the star counts, and which platforms an independent hotel can actually install today. Nearly every figure is our own measurement: fresh GitHub search and repository API pulls, Docker Hub and SourceForge distribution numbers, and clean-environment install tests where we brought each platform up by hand and recorded what happened.
Key statistics
6 highlights from this report
Key statistics
Key takeaways
Open-source hotel software is a one-giant category. QloApps towers over a field of coursework and abandoned products, a 24-year veteran keeps shipping from outside GitHub entirely, and a small 2026 wave of AI-era projects is the first new energy in years. Reservations and the front desk are covered; no project is purpose-built for housekeeping or inspection operations.
QloApps has roughly 15 times the stars of the rest of the hotel field combined.
1,086 repositories claim to be hotel management software; 4 passed our install test.
71% of hotel software repositories have not been touched in over a year.
HotelDruid has shipped for 24 years and still installs in under 5 minutes.
Three new AI-era open-source hotel PMS projects were created in 2026 alone.
Zero open-source projects are purpose-built for housekeeping or inspection ops.
How we built this report
Every figure was produced or retrieved first-hand by RapidEye Research in July and August 2026; nothing here is aggregated from other statistics pages.
- Searched the hotel categories directly
Seven GitHub searches (hotel PMS, hotel property management system, hotel management software, housekeeping, front desk, channel manager, booking engine) run August 1, 2026, on top of a 1,125-repository property-software sweep retrieved July 31, 2026.
- Profiled the hotel projects
12 hotel-focused projects got a per-repository API pull: stars, forks, license, language, creation date, last push, contributors, and archive status, all re-fetched at build time rather than reused from the earlier sweep.
- Install-tested 5 platforms
QloApps, HotelDruid, FewohBee, HAIP, and Pesan PMS were each brought up in a clean Docker environment following their own documentation. Pass means a working login screen or front desk; every manual fix was recorded.
- Checked the distribution channels
Docker Hub pull counts through the registry API and SourceForge download statistics through its stats API, because GitHub is not where every hotel platform actually ships from.
Honest scope caveat: GitHub search is not exhaustive (projects hosted elsewhere or described in other languages can be missed), star counts measure attention rather than quality, and each install test reflects one competent attempt on one day on an ARM Mac, not every possible configuration. Search totals and star counts were retrieved August 1, 2026 and will drift.
Open-source hotel software, by the numbers
All 28 figures, grouped into three themes. Statistics from our own measurement are marked RapidEye Research; figures read from public registries name the registry directly.
The landscape: one giant, then noise
The category looks crowded until you sort it. According to the GitHub search API on August 1 (github.com), 2026, "hotel management software" matches 1,086 repositories and "hotel PMS" another 554, but almost none of that volume is product. In RapidEye Research's July 31 sweep of 1,125 property-software repositories, 181 describe a hotel product, and among the 20 of those with 100 or more stars, our triage found exactly one actively maintained, deployable hotel PMS: QloApps, at 14,177 stars. The rest of the 100-star club is university coursework, demo apps, tutorials, scrapers, and two abandoned products, led by a 350-star PHP system untouched since March 2014. At the thin end, "hotel channel manager" returns just 38 repositories, and the largest of them last committed in April 2017.
A GitHub search for "hotel management software" returns 1,086 repositories; "hotel PMS" returns another 554.
GitHub search API, retrieved by RapidEye Research (August 1, 2026)
181 of the 1,125 repositories in our full property-software sweep describe a hotel product.
RapidEye Research, GitHub API sweep (July 31, 2026)
QloApps holds 14,177 GitHub stars as of August 1, 2026, the most-starred open-source lodging project of any kind.
GitHub repository API (August 1, 2026)
QloApps has roughly 15 times more stars than the other 11 hotel projects in this audit combined (14,177 vs 967).
RapidEye Research, from GitHub repository data (August 1, 2026)
Of the 20 hotel repositories with 100+ stars, QloApps is the only actively maintained, deployable hotel product; the rest are coursework, demos, tutorials, scrapers, and two abandoned products.
RapidEye Research manual triage (July 2026)
The second most-starred repository matching "hotel management software" (350 stars) has been untouched since March 2014.
GitHub, tugbadogan/hotelmanagement (verified August 1, 2026)
"Hotel channel manager" is the thinnest category on GitHub: 38 repositories, and the largest (81 stars) last committed in April 2017.
GitHub search and repository data (August 1, 2026)
The two largest "housekeeping" codebases GitHub returns for hotels are admin panels for Habbo Hotel fan-game servers, not hotel software.
RapidEye Research triage of GitHub search results (August 1, 2026)
73% of the 190 unique repositories returned across our seven hotel software searches carry no standard open-source license.
RapidEye Research, 138 of 190 top search results (August 1, 2026)
What this means: For hotels, "open source" is effectively a one-platform category plus a long tail of noise. Search volume wildly overstates choice: the operational categories a hotel ops leader would actually shop for (channel management, housekeeping) are where the shelf is emptiest.
The maintenance reality
Star counts age better than code does. According to RapidEye Research's repository analysis, 71% of hotel repositories (129 of 181) had no commit in the 12 months before the audit, and 63% publish no standard open-source license, which makes them legally unusable regardless of quality. The Odoo lineage shows how products decay in place: SerpentCS's Odoo Hotel Management System still draws 230 stars against a codebase targeting Odoo 10 that has been dead since July 2019, and the Odoo Community Association's replacement keeps its full hotel PMS module only on the Odoo 14 branch, a host version now outside Odoo's support window. Even young projects rot: Pesan PMS, a TypeScript hotel PMS created in April 2025, already fails to build its own Dockerfile. And GitHub recency misleads in the other direction too: HotelDruid's mirror has been frozen since 2018 while the real project shipped version 3.0.8 in December 2025 from its own site.
71% of hotel repositories in the sweep (129 of 181) had no commit in the previous 12 months.
RapidEye Research (July 31, 2026)
63% (114 of 181) publish no standard open-source license.
RapidEye Research (July 31, 2026)
Only 52 of 181 hotel repositories recorded any commit in the trailing year, and by our triage only about 6 of those are deployable hotel platforms.
RapidEye Research manual triage (July 31, 2026)
SerpentCS's Odoo Hotel Management System (230 stars, 265 forks) targets Odoo 10, has no license file, and has been dead since July 2019.
GitHub, JayVora-SerpentCS/OdooHotelManagementSystem (August 1, 2026)
OCA/pms keeps its full hotel PMS module only on the Odoo 14 branch, an end-of-life host version; the current 18.0 branch carries a single helper module.
GitHub, OCA/pms branch structure (July 2026)
Pesan PMS, created April 2025 and dormant since May 2025, already fails to build its own Dockerfile on a dependency conflict.
RapidEye Research install lab (July 2026)
HotelDruid's GitHub mirror has been stale since July 2018 while the project shipped version 3.0.8 in December 2025; repository recency misleads in both directions.
GitHub mirror vs official HotelDruid 3.0.8 changelog (2026)
Front Desk, the hotel front-office system built on ERPNext, has been forked twice as often as starred (56 forks, 28 stars), with its last push in September 2025.
GitHub, pmm-tech/front-desk (August 1, 2026)
What this means: A hotel evaluating open source cannot read star counts as a safety signal. The two numbers that predict a usable install are the license field and the date of the last commit, and by those two filters roughly nine in ten hotel repositories disqualify themselves before any code review.
What a hotel can actually run today
When we stopped reading and started installing, the answer got specific. According to RapidEye Research's install lab, 4 of the 5 hotel platforms tested reached a working front desk: HAIP's one-command Docker claim held at about 4 minutes to a seeded demo hotel, HotelDruid ran from the official tarball in under 5 minutes with no database server, FewohBee came up in about 10 minutes from prebuilt images after two config-file fixes, and QloApps took about 15 minutes because its repository documents no Docker path, so we hand-rolled a LAMP stack, fixed one PHP setting, and ran its six-step web installer. The only failure was the one dormant project. Distribution numbers back the same picture: according to Docker Hub (hub.docker.com), Webkul's own qloapps_docker image has 54,463 pulls, and according to SourceForge's stats API (sourceforge.net), HotelDruid recorded 608 downloads in the trailing 12 months of a 24-year release history. The newest energy is AI-shaped: three hotel PMS projects created in 2026 alone, including Kamra PMS, which ships an MCP tool layer so AI agents can operate the front desk, the same integration direction we document across commercial systems in our hotel PMS API comparison and support through the RapidEye developer platform.
4 of the 5 install-tested hotel platforms reached a working front desk or login (QloApps, HotelDruid, FewohBee, HAIP); the only failure was the one dormant project.
RapidEye Research install lab (July 2026)
HAIP's one-command Docker install claim held: clone to seeded demo hotel in about 4 minutes.
RapidEye Research install lab (July 2026)
HotelDruid 3.0.8 ran in under 5 minutes from the official tarball with no database server, using its file-based default.
RapidEye Research install lab (July 2026)
QloApps took about 15 minutes: its repository documents no Docker path, so the install meant a hand-rolled LAMP stack, one PHP config fix, and a six-step web installer.
RapidEye Research install lab (July 2026)
Webkul's own qloapps_docker image has 54,463 pulls on Docker Hub, against about 1,956 for the largest community image.
Docker Hub registry API (August 1, 2026)
FewohBee, the German small-hotel PMS, had commits on the day we pulled data (July 31, 2026) and installs from prebuilt images, though our setup needed two config-file fixes.
GitHub, developeregrem/fewohbee; RapidEye Research install lab (2026)
HotelDruid's changelog spans 24 years of releases, from version 0.1.2 (June 2001) to version 3.0.8 (December 2025).
HotelDruid 3.0.8 official changelog (verified August 2026)
SourceForge's statistics record 10,179 HotelDruid downloads, 608 of them in the 12 months to July 2026.
SourceForge download stats API (August 1, 2026)
Three new open-source hotel PMS projects were created in 2026 alone (HAIP in April, SyncZen in June, Kamra in July), all TypeScript, with 68 stars combined.
GitHub repository creation dates (August 1, 2026)
Kamra PMS, created July 4, 2026, describes an MCP tool layer so AI agents can operate the PMS; 4 contributors and commits through August 1, 2026.
GitHub, Kamra-PMS/kamra-pms (August 1, 2026)
Zero open-source projects in the audit are purpose-built for hotel housekeeping operations, room inspection, or quality-audit workflows.
RapidEye Research (August 2026)
What this means: A technically capable independent hotel can genuinely self-host its reservations and front desk today, and the maintained options all install in 15 minutes or less. What it cannot do is run its operations on open source: the housekeeping boards, room inspections, and quality audits that fill an ops leader's day have no open-source contender at all, which is why operators who go this route pair a booking core with commercial or custom operations tooling, a build-vs-buy line we map in detail in our hotel operations data model.
The field guide: every hotel project that matters
The 12 open-source hotel projects worth knowing about, profiled with fresh GitHub API data (August 1, 2026) and our verdict on each. The star bars are scaled logarithmically because QloApps would otherwise flatten every other row to zero. "Runs today" means it passed our install test; "active, untested" means commits within the last 60 days but no install attempt by us yet.
| Project | Stars | License | Language | Last commit | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QloAppsFull hotel PMS + booking engine | 14,177 | OSL-3.0 | PHP | Jul 2026 | Runs, manual setup |
| hotelmanagementPHP hotel system (tugbadogan) | 350 | Non-std | PHP | Mar 2014 | Abandoned |
| Odoo Hotel MgmtOdoo 10 modules (SerpentCS) | 230 | None | HTML | Jul 2019 | Abandoned |
| OCA/pmsOdoo community hotel PMS | 84 | AGPL-3.0 | HTML | Jul 2026 | Odoo 14 only |
| channelmanagerHotel distribution (akaniklaus) | 81 | GPL-2.0 | PHP | Apr 2017 | Abandoned |
| FewohBeeSmall-hotel and pension PMS | 57 | GPL-3.0 | PHP | Jul 2026 | Runs, manual setup |
| Pesan PMSTypeScript hotel PMS | 52 | MIT | TypeScript | May 2025 | Will not build |
| SyncZenCheck-in dashboard, Next.js | 28 | MIT | TypeScript | Jul 2026 | Active, untested |
| Front DeskFront office on ERPNext | 28 | MIT | Python | Sep 2025 | Dormant, untested |
| HAIPAPI-first hotel PMS with AI agents | 27 | Apache-2.0 | TypeScript | Aug 2026 | Runs today |
| HotelDruidVeteran PMS, ships off-GitHub | 17 | AGPL-3.0 | PHP | Dec 2025* | Runs today |
| Kamra PMSAI-native PMS with MCP layer | 13 | AGPL-3.0 | TypeScript | Aug 2026 | Active, untested |
Reading note: *HotelDruid's GitHub mirror froze in 2018; the December 2025 date is its official 3.0.8 release, which is what we tested. Stars and dates are from the GitHub API on August 1, 2026 and will drift. This table is the hotel companion to the 25-platform table in our full open-source property management audit, which covers the vacation rental and long-term rental categories, where, notably, the short-term rental side has no equivalent of even this list; see the STR operations data model for what that missing layer would need to hold.
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Quick FAQ
Is there a free open-source hotel PMS that actually works?
Yes. Four passed RapidEye Research's 2026 install test: QloApps (14,177 GitHub stars, about 15 minutes to install by hand), HotelDruid (under 5 minutes from the official tarball, no database server required), FewohBee (prebuilt Docker images, about 10 minutes with two config fixes), and HAIP (one command, about 4 minutes to a seeded demo hotel). All four had commits within the 12 months before the audit; the one dormant platform tested, Pesan PMS, no longer builds.
What is the largest open-source hotel management system?
QloApps, by a wide margin. As of August 1, 2026 it holds 14,177 GitHub stars, roughly 15 times the other 11 hotel projects in RapidEye Research's audit combined (967 stars), with 17 contributors, commits through July 2026, and 54,463 pulls of its publisher Webkul's Docker image. No other maintained open-source hotel platform exceeds 100 stars.
Is there open-source hotel housekeeping or inspection software?
No. RapidEye Research's 2026 audit found zero open-source projects purpose-built for hotel housekeeping operations, room inspection, or quality-audit workflows; a few PMS projects list a housekeeping module, but none is a dedicated operations tool. GitHub returns 265 repositories for a hotel housekeeping search, but the two largest codebases in the results are admin panels for Habbo Hotel fan-game servers. Open-source hotel software concentrates on reservations and the front desk; the operations layer above them has no open-source contender.
How old is HotelDruid?
HotelDruid has been in continuous release for 24 years. Its changelog in the official distribution runs from version 0.1.2, dated June 16, 2001, to version 3.0.8, dated December 4, 2025. Its GitHub mirror has been stale since 2018, but the project ships from its own site and SourceForge, which records 608 downloads in the 12 months to July 2026.
Data sources
Nearly every figure on this page is RapidEye Research's own measurement; the underlying raw data, releases, and registry numbers trace to these named public sources, each checked directly during the audit.
GitHubRepository search API and repository metadata, retrieved July 31 and August 1, 2026github.com
Docker HubRegistry API pull counts for QloApps and HotelDruid images, August 1, 2026hub.docker.com
SourceForgeHotelDruid release distribution and download statistics API, August 1, 2026sourceforge.net
QloApps (Webkul)QloApps 1.7 installer, documentation, and system requirementsqloapps.com
HotelDruidHotelDruid 3.0.8 official distribution and changelog (2001-2025)hoteldruid.com
FewohBeeFewohBee hotel software and its dockerized deployment companionfewohbee.app