Alternatives to Shelf
An open-source asset management platform for tracking equipment, bookings and inventory across a team. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Shelf
An open-source asset management platform for tracking equipment, bookings and inventory across a team.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Shelf.
Snipe-IT
An open-source, self-hosted IT asset management system written in PHP, with optional paid hosting.
Snipe-IT is a free open source asset register you self-host on a PHP server, with a REST API and two-factor authentication, but no equipment booking features listed.
Reftab
A cloud asset management service for tracking hardware, software licenses, equipment and IT spend.
Reftab is a hosted asset tracker with check in and check out, custom tags, software licence and IT spend tracking, and an Android app but no iPhone app listed.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
GLPI
An open-source IT service management suite with help desk, asset inventory and CMDB.
OCS Inventory NG
Open-source IT asset management server that inventories hardware and software across an organisation's devices.
i-doit
A CMDB and IT documentation platform for recording hardware, software, networks and their relationships.
Hudu
A hosted IT documentation platform for procedures, assets, passwords and network records.
Open-AudIT
An agentless network discovery and IT inventory tool with configuration change tracking and compliance reporting.
RackTables
A self-hosted web application for documenting datacenter and server room hardware, racks and networks.
