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24 alternatives to Zstandard

Smaller and faster data compression open-source by Facebook

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Zstandard launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
ZStandard▲3
A fast real-time compression algorithm by Facebook
2018 · facebook.github.io · its alternatives →
2
TinyStorage▲178
A Modern GUI For S3
2025 · tinybrief.app · its alternatives →
3
Restyaboard▲197
An open source alternative to Trello
2015 · restya.com · its alternatives →
4
Fosshub▲79
An open source for free and open source tools
2015 · fosshub.com · its alternatives →
5
MatrixDS▲79
The data community's workbench
2018 · its alternatives →
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Redis compressed values module using Zstandard▲10
Magically make your Redis data smaller with Zstandard compression. - chadnickbok/redis-zstd-module
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
7
Quackpad▲139
Collaborative docs for teams using Slack
2015 · quackpad.io · its alternatives →
8
TinyPNG▲119
Compress PNG images that preserves full alpha transparency
2014 · tinypng.com · its alternatives →
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I made a new compression algorithm▲9
Improving classic Lempel-Ziv-Welch with edit distance matching - BrowserBox/LZW-X
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
10
Contentify▲70
a real-time collaborative content manager on top of Github
2014 · thyb.github.io · its alternatives →
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Slapp▲28
An open-source node.js library for creating Slack Apps
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
12
Openemacs – a tiny emacs clone, ≤ 1024 LOC (C), based on kilo (BSD)▲8
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ROOK▲9
Open, Cloud Native, and Universal Distributed Storage
2016 · rook.io · its alternatives →
14
Slackshot▲34
A Slack community for designers on Dribbble.
2015 · its alternatives →
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999.css, a barebones CSS framework in 999 bytes (Not gzipped)▲7
2016 · 999.surge.sh · its alternatives →
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Mini_gzip – embeddable, minimal, in-memory Gzip API▲21
Embeddable minimal in-memory GZIP decompression library for embedded systems - wkoszek/mini_gzip
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Sumbli▲7
Collaborative content
2018 · its alternatives →
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Sonar▲14
A linting tool for the web
2017 · its alternatives →
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XPress Compress v1.0 – A config-less compression algorithm▲19
xPress File archiver and extractor. Contribute to zelon88/xPress development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
20
I wrote a load balancer with XDP and Go▲15
Facebook's Katran looked too scary (and I don't do C++), so I thought I would investigate using XDP/eBPF to redirect packets at high speed and Go to do the control plane work of health-checking backed servers and managing configuration. With luck the resulting binary should be easy to deploy by non-developers. It's still not mature, but seems to work. Code was written in a very exploratory manner, and I'm not a developer so it is quite shocking at the moment, but I aim to improve it. It is intended to be horizontally scalable with ECMP and has been tested on service providing…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I made an open-source Replit▲9
I spent the past few weeks making an open source cloud code editing environment with an AI copilot and multiplayer collaboration! It's fully self-hostable in 5-10 minutes. There's a lot of minor improvements to be made, and some are already listed in the Github issues. Let me know what you think and feel free to try it out.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
22
Litho▲11
A declarative UI framework for Android by Facebook
2017 · engineering.fb.com · its alternatives →
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Zehefyu93 Scheme^2 Quad Store for collaborative structured data▲6
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Echo▲7
A fast and unfancy micro web framework for Go
2016 · labstack.com · its alternatives →

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