HomeFree Manual

Welcome. HomeFree is a small computer that lives in your house and quietly runs your own cloud — your files, your photos, your calendars, your chat, your news, all of it on hardware you own.

This manual walks you through three things:

1. Setting up the hardware — what to buy, how to plug it in.
2. Installing HomeFree — a guided installer on a USB stick.
3. Using the apps — page by page, the apps you can run and how to connect your phone or laptop to them.

If you can plug in a router, you can do this. Most people finish in an afternoon.

Get started

• Hardware setup — what you'll need, and how everything plugs in.
• Installation — download the installer, walk through the on-screen steps.

Apps

• FreshRSS — your news reader.
• FreshRSS on Android — reading on your phone with Capy.

More apps will get their own pages as the manual grows.

Building HomeFree itself, contributing, or just curious how it works under the hood? See the Developers section.