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A realistic path to digital independence

Your own private cloud, made simple.

Like Google Drive, Photos, and Docs — but you're in control, not a corporation. No tracking, no ads, no terms changing on you.

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Beta · 0.15.0 · free & open source

Own your data

Your data answers to you, not a corporation. Whether it runs on a computer at home or a server you rent, only you hold the keys — no one mines it, sells it, or locks you in.

Actually simple

Install once, then pick apps from a browser. MOS handles the proxies, certificates, backups, and updates — no sysadmin required.

Genuinely private

The platform has no telemetry, no account, and nothing that phones home. Fonts and icons are served from your own server, never a CDN. Every app carries a published privacy assessment — or says plainly that it isn't rated yet.

How it works

Three steps to your own cloud

Whether it's your first time or you've self-hosted for years, it's the same three steps.

1

Set it up once

Pick where MOS lives — a cloud server from any provider you like, or a spare computer at home (see the options just below). Then follow a short, guided setup; MOS installs itself.

2

Create your account in the browser

Open your new private cloud and sign up like any normal app — name, email, password. No credentials to configure by hand.

3

Pick your apps

Open the App Catalog and install what you want. MOS runs, connects, secures, backs up, and updates each one.

The app catalog

Explore the apps

Every app is packaged by MOS, pinned to an exact version, verified by digest, and health-checked while it runs. A curated catalog — and if you want something that isn't in it, you can install your own and MOS will tell you exactly what you're trusting.

Apps that work together

Install Seafile, install ONLYOFFICE, press Connect — MOS grants the secret, wires the network, and your documents open in the browser editor. No config files.

Beyond the catalog

Your favorite app isn't locked out

The catalog is a curated, privacy-rated core — not a wall. MOS also installs open-source apps from outside it, and shows you exactly what you'd be trusting before anything runs.

For you

Bring your own app

Paste an app's GitHub repository URL into the Apps search and MOS shows you a preview before anything installs: what the package is, and what it's asking for. It's a little more hands-on than the catalog — you're trusting that app's publisher, and MOS makes sure you know it at the point you decide.

  • Preview first — web addresses, storage, and app connections it wants, in plain language
  • Labelled External · Unverified everywhere it appears — no borrowed trust
  • Restricted by MOS: no privileged containers, no reaching into other apps' secrets
  • Managed like any other app afterwards: backups, updates, restart, uninstall
How external installs work →
For open-source publishers

Make your app MOS-installable

Ship a small package next to your app — a manifest, a pinned build recipe, an icon — and any MOS user can paste your repository URL and run your app on their own server. The packaging workflow is public and versioned, with a working example repository to start from.

  • One manifest describes your routes, storage, setup fields, and health check
  • Your users' data stays on their hardware — the way your project intended
  • The same packaging shape MOS uses for its own catalog apps
Read the packaging workflow → Start from the example app repository →
Who it's for

You might feel right at home

If any of this sounds like you, MOS was built with you in mind.

  • You want to leave Google, Apple, and Microsoft — without giving up the conveniences you actually rely on.
  • You're a creator or freelancer who won't have your work quietly fed into AI training sets.
  • You're tired of paying for “free” services with your privacy.
  • You want your family's photos and private moments to stay private.
  • You've noticed the ads getting a little too personal — and it doesn't feel right.
  • You're done with ecosystems that are easy to enter and hard to ever leave.
  • You've self-hosted before and want a curated, tested stack — not a weekend lost to compiling and dependency errors.
A quick tour

As easy as the phone in your pocket

A catalog you just tap through

Pick what you want from a curated shortlist and install it in a single tap. MOS quietly handles the database, the networking, and the secure connections in the background — no config files, no command line.

The MOS App Catalog

Know exactly what you're getting

Every app has a plain-language page: what it does, the Big Tech product it replaces, how much it will ask of your machine, and how your data stays private. Decide with confidence, then install with a single click.

An app's detail view with a one-click Install action and its privacy posture grade

The privacy grade, with receipts

Every catalog app is assessed before it enters the catalog and wears an A-to-D privacy grade. Tap it and see why: telemetry, outside services, accounts, where your data is processed, and the policies that apply — a plain verdict on each, backed by published evidence.

The privacy posture dialog showing an app's A-to-D grade and per-dimension verdicts

Apps that plug into each other

Some apps are better together — connect Seafile to ONLYOFFICE and every document in your file cloud opens for editing in the browser. One button does it: MOS exchanges the secrets and wires the network, so you never copy keys between admin panels.

Two apps shown as a plug and socket with a one-click Connect action

Guided onto your other devices

Some apps meet you on your phone or laptop — like pointing your calendar at your own server. Those come with a built-in setup guide: per-device steps and copyable values right where you need them, tracking what you've finished.

A per-app setup guide with per-device steps beside the app's detail view

Back up your whole suite to storage you control

One button copies your suite to storage attached to the MOS server: an encrypted USB disk at home, or a mounted block-storage volume on a rented server. MOS verifies every archive before restore. Bundles are not encrypted by MOS, so protect the destination like the server itself.

Backup and restore page in Suite Manager
Choose your platform

Where should your cloud live?

MOS runs on hardware you pick — a computer at home, a cloud server you rent, or (soon) one we run for you. Honest about what each one needs.

Own hardware

USB installer

Flash the installer, boot a dedicated machine, confirm. LAN-first at home.mos.home.

  • A spare mini-PC or PC to dedicate
  • Erases the target disk (Ubuntu Server 24.04-based)
  • Costs only your electricity — usually a small amount each month
  • Best privacy — nothing leaves your home
Read the install guide →
Cloud server

One command

One command in your provider's browser console (or over SSH) on a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 server. Provider-agnostic.

  • A small server you rent — about $20–25 a month (DigitalOcean is the tested reference)
  • Your provider's web console or SSH — nothing to install on your computer
  • Reachable from anywhere you allow
Read the install guide →
Coming soon

Managed hosting

Buy from MOS: one click provisions and runs a cloud server for you. No terminal, no VPS account.

  • Nothing to set up yourself
  • MOS-provisioned and maintained
  • A paid subscription — pricing announced at launch
  • Planned — not yet available
We'll announce it here.
$ curl -fsSL https://get.myownsuite.org | sudo bash

On fresh Ubuntu 24.04 this installs MOS from the current reviewed main commit, pinned the moment you run it. Inspect it first at https://get.myownsuite.org/install.sh.

Kept safe

Backups, updates, and a serious trust architecture

Self-hosting only pays off if the thing hosting your life is careful. Here is what MOS does so you don't have to think about it.

Private HTTPS at home

Real green-lock certificates on your LAN via Cloudflare DNS-01 — without exposing anything to the internet.

Secrets stay secret

Secrets never enter the database, logs, or API responses. Narrow host agents apply changes; the web UI never gets root.

A catalog your server can verify

The app catalog is cryptographically signed, and your server checks the signature against a key it already has — not one downloaded alongside it. Even offline, it won't trust a catalog nobody signed.

Apps update on their own schedule

A security fix for your password manager doesn't wait for us to ship a version of MOS. Each app updates by itself, when you say so — with the changes spelled out first.

Your apps can't change under you

Each app runs from a verified copy of the exact package it was installed with. Nothing we publish later reaches into a machine we don't own — your app changes when you decide it does.

Updates that put things back

The new version is built and health-checked before the old one stops. If it fails, MOS restores what was running — or tells you exactly what it couldn't undo. Never a cheerful "done" over a broken app.

Questions

Honest answers

Do I need to be technical?

Short answer: no — if you go with a cloud server.

Longer answer: it depends on where MOS lives. A rented cloud server just means following our step-by-step guide, with video walkthroughs on the way — no experience needed.

Your own hardware is more hands-on: it's like installing a Linux distribution, only simpler — flash a USB stick, boot from it, and wait. There are no prompts to answer; MOS sets everything up with sensible defaults. If you've ever installed an operating system, you're more than experienced enough. If not, a cloud server is the easier place to start.

Either way, once MOS is running everything happens in the browser and works for anyone.

Is it really free — what does it actually cost?

MOS and every app in the catalog are free and open source — no license keys, no subscriptions, no paid tier.

The only real cost is the computer it runs on: a little electricity if you use a machine at home, or a small monthly fee for a rented cloud server (about $20–25 a month for the tested reference size). A one-click managed hosting option is coming for people who'd rather pay MOS to run it all for them.

Where does my data actually live?

On the machine you installed MOS on — your home mini-PC or your cloud server. MOS never routes your data through a MOS-owned cloud, and the platform contains no telemetry at all: no account, no analytics, nothing reporting back to us. We don't know that you installed it.

The one exception is this marketing page, which counts anonymous visits using analytics we run ourselves. The docs have none, and your suite has none. The privacy policy spells out every connection your server makes.

How do my apps stay up to date?

Each app updates on its own schedule, independently of MOS itself. Your server periodically checks a signed catalog for newer app versions and shows an Update available badge — so a security fix for your password manager reaches you without waiting for a MOS release.

Nothing updates behind your back. You see what changes — new settings, breaking changes, whether the privacy assessment moved — and you press the button. If an update fails, MOS puts the app back the way it was, or tells you exactly what it couldn't undo.

Can I install an app that isn't in the catalog?

Yes. Paste a GitHub repository URL into the Apps search and MOS will fetch it, check it, and show you what it wants before anything is installed — which addresses it asks for, which storage, which other apps it wants to reach.

It's labelled External · Unverified everywhere it appears, because we haven't reviewed it and we won't pretend otherwise. Building it runs the publisher's own instructions on your server, so it's genuinely your call — MOS's job is to make sure it's an informed one.

What if I want to leave?

Everything runs on standard open-source apps with standard data formats. Manual whole-suite backups go to an encrypted USB drive on own hardware or a mounted block-storage volume on a cloud server. Bundles are not encrypted by MOS, so the destination must be protected like the server itself.

It's beta — is it safe to use?

MOS is version 0.15.0 and improving quickly. Every change runs an automated test suite before it lands, the whole install-to-apps flow is exercised on real virtual machines, and every image is pinned to an exact digest. The changelog is public.

Trust is the product, so here's the honest part: pre-1.0 releases can include breaking changes, and we don't yet run the full end-to-end suite automatically on every release. Treat MOS as ready for evaluation and non-critical use for now: keep an independent backup of anything you can't afford to lose, and take a backup before you update — the button is right there.

Start with one app today. Own more of your life over time.

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Open source matters

Built on great open-source work

My Own Suite stands on top of some of the best open-source tools available today. Huge credit to the teams and communities behind them. This would not exist without their work.

MOS itself is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only: free to use, change, share, and host commercially, with modified hosted versions kept open to their users.

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