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24 alternatives to BamBuddy – a self-hosted print archive for Bambu Lab 3D printers

Bambu makes great hardware, but your data lives in their cloud and there's no way to export it. When a print finishes, the job is basically gone from any useful record-keeping perspective. BamBuddy fixes that by running on your own machine and tapping into the printer's local MQTT interface — so it captures everything as it happens: thumbnails, filament usage, timing, slicer settings. You end up with a fully searchable archive of your print history that's entirely yours, works offline, and never touches Bambu's servers. The catch: their local API is undocumented, so a lot of the early work…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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    Spooly▲4

    Never run out of filament mid-print again

    Feb 2026 · spooly.eu · its alternatives →

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    Bambu Lab, Klipper, OctoPrint, Creality and Snapmaker

    Mar 2026 · printertools.app · its alternatives →

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    A native macOS serial terminal with a file server built in

    Aug 2026 · iviu.ai · its alternatives →

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    Print Dropbox, Google Photos, Facebook & Instagram photos

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Hello! For the past year I’ve been working on a fully-managed data warehouse built on Clickhouse. I built this because I was frustrated with how much work was required to run an OLAP database in prod: re-writing my app to do batch inserts, managing clusters and needing to look up special CREATE TABLE syntax every time I made a change. I found pricing for other warehouses confusing (what is a “credit” exactly?) and worried about getting capacity-planning wrong. I was previously building accounting software for firms with millions of transactions. I desperately needed to move from Postgres to…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Create instantly stickable photos in seconds

    2018 · awin1.com · its alternatives →

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    I use a ton of 3D Files as I love 3D printing in my spare time and I usually exchange them over Gmail and store them in Google Drive etc.. Google does not have a 3D Preview of files so I've built a small Google Workspace Addon that opens the file into a clean "Google like" web app that supports most files. Other solutions existed but they were full of ads and looking absolutely terrible. It got a bit of traction (around 400 users) on the store so thought I would share it here! Would love to have feedback! Each file is treated purely in the browser for maximum privacy

    Jan 2026 · 3dviewer.co · its alternatives →

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    Bublup▲108

    Save and share any type of digital content - in one place.

    2020 · bublup.com · its alternatives →

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    A high resolution, affordable, and reliable resin printer

    2017 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    Gambody▲66

    Top 3D print premium marketplace online for video gamers

    2016 · gambody.com · its alternatives →

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    PicoMQ is a Rust server for Durable Streams, built on Object Store. Cheap, URL-addressable, granular streams (create/append/read/long-poll/SSE), with Pico Protocol or Durable Streams Protocol as the facade. S3Stream is the stream storage primitive, used in AutoMQ, shipped as a Rust library. Coordination is a command log in Postgres.

    Aug 2026 · picomq.com · its alternatives →

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    GitMerch▲147

    Get a T-shirt with your GitHub contribution map on it

    2019 · gitmerch.com · its alternatives →

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    3D Hubs▲124

    Airbnb for 3D printing

    2014 · hubs.com · its alternatives →

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    View and print a 3D model of your GitHub contribution graph

    2021 · skyline.github.com · its alternatives →

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    With wallabag, archive the web freely. wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages.

    2016 · wallabag.org · its alternatives →

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    3D print from anywhere, on your phone.

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Printsnap▲100

    Just take a Snap and we'll instantly print & mail it to you!

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    3D printing software: Manage printers safer, faster, smarter

    2025 · printerhive.com · its alternatives →

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    Pinterest + iTunes for 3D printing

    2014 · pinshape.com · its alternatives →

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    Record and playback movements for your robot

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    30x cheaper than Datadog. Predictable pricing. Exceptional customer support. 7,000+ happy customers. 60-day money back guarantee.

    2021 · logtail.com · its alternatives →

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    Order 3D Prints and PCBs via API

    2022 · its alternatives →

  24. 24IM

    So I'm a junior Go dev and I made a small site that allows me to share images with someone privately and securely, and give me control over how many times the private link can be shared and how long the image will be accessible for. There are similar services to this one, but they are either convoluted with ads, or require sign-up, or expect you to fill out a survey or something. picburn is small, safe, and has no interest (nor the code or the server space) for storing your uploads. give it a try if it fits your usecase and let me know what you think. Note: there was a typo in the url

    Aug 2026 · picburn.xyz · its alternatives →

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