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24 alternatives to Franz
A macOS client for Apache Kafka
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Franz launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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This is the source code to Franz, a native desktop client for Apache Kafka I've been working on for the past ~three years or so. Around 2021, I started using Kafka at a startup and I didn't like any of the clients that were available at the time, so I decided to build my own in my spare time[1]. I wanted a solid native experience on the Mac that wasn't web based and didn't require any Docker containers to run. A few months ago, I decided to make the code source-available[2] in part because I like the idea of my users being able to see the code they're running and in part because I want to…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open-Source Web UI for Apache Kafka Management. Contribute to provectus/kafka-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source, versatile, fast and lightweight UI for Kafka
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Redpanda Console is a developer-friendly UI for managing your Kafka/Redpanda workloads. Console gives you a simple, interactive approach for gaining visibility into your topics, masking data, managing consumer groups, and exploring real-time data with time-travel debugging. - redpanda-data/console
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey folks, I'm super excited to announce the release of a new UI for Apache Kafka, Confluent, Redpanda and Kinesis that focuses on Teams and Data Mesh. (Note: the desktop version is also very popular with individual developers!) Why is this important? Because providing a solution that can be used by both IT and business (non-technical) users is essential when building applications that process business data. Of course, we are mainly developers working on Kadeck. So you won't miss any of the features you need to troubleshoot and monitor Kafka and your applications. In fact, we have put a lot…
2023 · kadeck.com · its alternatives →
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When building Hookie, I worked with NATS Jetstream a lot. While you can do everything using the CLI, I prefer the feeling of a nice GUI better. So I built one.
Aug 2026 · streambench.app · its alternatives →
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Powerful, SQL-enabled streaming platform for Apache Kafka®.
2017 · its alternatives →
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AxonOps▲8Apache Cassandra® & Kafka® monitoring and management
2024 · axonops.com · its alternatives →
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Hello Everyone! We built SQLFlow as a lightweight stream processing engine. We leverage DuckDB as the stream processing engine, which gives SQLFlow the ability to process 10's of thousands of messages a second using ~250MiB of memory! DuckDB also supports a rich ecosystem of sinks and connectors! https://sql-flow.com/docs/category/tutorials/ https://github.com/turbolytics/sql-flow We were tired of running JVM's for simple stream processing, and also of bespoke one off stream processors I would love your feedback, criticisms and/or…
Dec 2025 · sql-flow.com · its alternatives →
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:rocket: Web GUI for Kafka Cluster Management. Contribute to oslabs-beta/Kafka-Sprout development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · 1900jwatson.medium.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · alooma.com · its alternatives →
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Shuru is a lightweight sandbox that spins up Linux VMs on macOS using Apple's Virtualization.framework. Boots in about a second on Apple Silicon, and everything is ephemeral by default. There's a checkpoint system for when you do want to persist state, and sandboxes run without network access unless you explicitly allow it. Single Rust binary, no dependencies. Built it for sandboxing AI agent code execution, but it works well for anything where you need a disposable Linux environment.
Feb 2026 · shuru.run · its alternatives →
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Open-Source Web GUI for Apache Kafka Management
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open-Source Web UI for managing Apache Kafka clusters - Release 1.0: Messages overhaul, editable ACLs · kafbat/kafka-ui
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Kerno▲132Hey HN! Anibal, Sean, Vlad, Maxi and Karim here we're the co-founders of Kerno (https://www.kerno.io/). We're building a zero-hassle tool to help developers monitor and troubleshoot their services in a way that makes sense. No complex rollouts, no custom infra, no tons of instrumentation, no sidecars… none of that! Just a minimum effort, out-of-the box, highly contextualized and interactive experience so you and your team can focus on shipping! We basically scan your cluster resources, build usable abstractions on top of all the kubernetes craziness, identify monitor your…
Dec 2025 · kerno.io · its alternatives →
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Userspace macOS translation layer for Linux ARM64. Contribute to wie-project/kakehashi development by creating an account on GitHub.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Kafka 0.8.0 broker implementation on top of Cloudflare Workers - maxwellpeterson/kafka-worker
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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kaskade is a text user interface for kafka, which allows you to interact and consume topics from your terminal in style! - sauljabin/kaskade
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, for those of you tired of running kafka-consumer-groups.sh and similar tools, here's a small real-time monitoring CLI tool for Apache Kafka, that displays consumer lag and event rates in a clean, top-like interface. You can quickly assess which consumers are lagging and when they will catch up. I've made this to quickly assess the health of remote on-premises clusters which most of the time lack proper monitoring. The tool can be found here: https://github.com/sivann/kafkatop I'd be very interested to hear your feedback or any features you think would add value to…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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