The Hono showcase

Discover the best projects built with Hono

A hand-curated, daily-updated gallery of open-source projects. Browse the ecosystem, ranked by GitHub stars.

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285 projects

Pear is extension for music player. Maintained by pear-devs on GitHub, where it has earned 32,715 stars from the community.

Modern React starter kit with Bun, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, tRPC, Stripe, and Cloudflare Workers. Production-ready monorepo for building fast web apps. Maintained by kriasoft on GitHub, where it has earned 23,690 stars from the community.

The one-liner node.js http-proxy (httpxy) middleware for connect, express, next.js and more. Maintained by chimurai on GitHub, where it has earned 11,126 stars from the community.

All you need. Nothing you don't. Open source project management that works for you, not against you. Maintained by usekaneo on GitHub, where it has earned 9,356 stars from the community.

AI-native design editor. Open-source Figma alternative. Maintained by open-pencil on GitHub, where it has earned 8,181 stars from the community.

A modern CLI tool for scaffolding end-to-end type-safe TypeScript projects with best practices and customizable configurations. Maintained by AmanVarshney01 on GitHub, where it has earned 5,814 stars from the community.

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One lets you target React web and React Native with a single Vite plugin. Everything you need to build great websites and apps with unified routing. Maintained by onejs on GitHub, where it has earned 4,489 stars from the community.

Full-stack CRUD, simplified, with SSOT TypeScript entities. Maintained by remult on GitHub, where it has earned 3,208 stars from the community.

Modern photo gallery for photographers, with S3/GitHub sync, EXIF details, maps, and a WebGL viewer. Maintained by Afilmory on GitHub, where it has earned 2,647 stars from the community.

SonicJS - The edge-native headless CMS for Cloudflare Workers. Sub-100ms response times, zero cold starts, TypeScript-first. Built on D1, R2, and Hono. Maintained by SonicJs-Org on GitHub, where it has earned 1,746 stars from the community.

Minimal Docs for Agents & Humans. Maintained by wevm on GitHub, where it has earned 1,545 stars from the community.

A platform to build useful communities that aim to tackle global problems. Maintained by ONEARMY on GitHub, where it has earned 1,401 stars from the community.

A self-hosted Markdown notebook that runs entirely on Cloudflare Workers. Maintained by shuaiplus on GitHub, where it has earned 1,067 stars from the community.

Cross-platform desktop music player with rich lyric support and wide audio format compatibility. ，. Maintained by SPlayer-Dev on GitHub, where it has earned 1,056 stars from the community.

A personal note repository that looks different. Maintained by Rabithua on GitHub, where it has earned 1,040 stars from the community.

nestjs. Maintained by nestcn on GitHub, where it has earned 1,033 stars from the community.

The ultimate ORM for Node and Typescript. Maintained by alfateam on GitHub, where it has earned 1,006 stars from the community.

A starter template for building fully documented type-safe JSON APIs with Hono and Open API. Maintained by w3cj on GitHub, where it has earned 1,004 stars from the community.

monorepo for Hono third-party middleware/helpers/wrappers. Maintained by honojs on GitHub, where it has earned 996 stars from the community.

App！Python+React+TypeScript+Hono+SQLite3+Redis，“All in One”。、、、、B、20+，4K。Cloudflare Turnstile、Google、GitHubOpenAI SDK、SDK、MCPAgent，ChatGPT、AI、、Hugging Face、Latex；K、AI、。，！，，PC，ChattyPlay～. Maintained by P1kaj1uu on GitHub, where it has earned 945 stars from the community.

Selfhost web archiving and sharing service. Maintained by Ray-D-Song on GitHub, where it has earned 928 stars from the community.

A self-hosted command center for OpenCode. Sessions, git, terminal, and schedules in one web app, from your phone or desktop. Maintained by chriswritescode-dev on GitHub, where it has earned 891 stars from the community.

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Serverless, 100% free, and open-source Evernote alternative on Cloudflare with native MCP | 、0、 AI Agent 『』. Maintained by tianma-if on GitHub, where it has earned 763 stars from the community.

OpenAPI 3 and 3.1 schema generator and validator for Hono, itty-router and more!. Maintained by cloudflare on GitHub, where it has earned 760 stars from the community.

Scaffold production-ready full-stack apps in TypeScript, Rust, Python, Go, and Java with a visual builder and CLI. Choose your frontend, backend, database, auth, AI, payments, and DevOps integrations, all wired together. Maintained by Marve10s on GitHub, where it has earned 741 stars from the community.

Node.js Server for Hono. Maintained by honojs on GitHub, where it has earned 680 stars from the community.

100% free and full open-source edge Firecrawl alternative with better links extraction for agents - that you can deploy to cloudflare or vercel by yourself. Maintained by lumpinif on GitHub, where it has earned 667 stars from the community.

Rate Limit middleware for Hono Server. Maintained by rhinobase on GitHub, where it has earned 646 stars from the community.

Fast and low overhead web framework fastify benchmarks. Maintained by fastify on GitHub, where it has earned 634 stars from the community.

A modern web interface for managing qBittorrent instances. Supports mobile view with PWA. Features cross seed and many more tools. Maintained by mkbula on GitHub, where it has earned 585 stars from the community.

Easily create scalable, monetisable backend APIs with Hono + Cloudflare workers. All the batteries included. Maintained by supermemoryai on GitHub, where it has earned 555 stars from the community.

Hono middlewares for Remix. Maintained by sergiodxa on GitHub, where it has earned 553 stars from the community.

An open source, minimal AI powered note taking app and powerful markdown editor. Maintained by Dhravya on GitHub, where it has earned 502 stars from the community.

Hono + Bun + TSyringe TypeScript ， NestJS （Turborepo ）. Maintained by aqz236 on GitHub, where it has earned 486 stars from the community.

AivisSpeech: AI Voice Imitation System - Text to Speech Software. Maintained by Aivis-Project on GitHub, where it has earned 473 stars from the community.

A headless CMS framework using Hono + Drizzle + Zod + Vite. Maintained by rhinobase on GitHub, where it has earned 466 stars from the community.

Telegram bot template based on grammY. Maintained by bot-base on GitHub, where it has earned 441 stars from the community.

OpenAI to Google Gemini https://gemini-openai-proxy.deno.dev. Maintained by zuisong on GitHub, where it has earned 439 stars from the community.

Simple proxy worker for using ollama in cursor. Maintained by ryoppippi on GitHub, where it has earned 417 stars from the community.

Codex CLI multi-account OAuth manager with account switching, health checks, runtime rotation, diagnostics, and recovery tools for @openai/codex. Maintained by ndycode on GitHub, where it has earned 391 stars from the community.

BULL RUSH — a 3D neon endless runner for The Black Bull ($ANSEM). React Three Fiber game + Hono/Redis API + dynamic X share cards. Play → trybullrush.xyz. Maintained by winsznx on GitHub, where it has earned 378 stars from the community.

The best way to start your react-router v7 project. Maintained by code-forge-io on GitHub, where it has earned 366 stars from the community.

A premium serverless edge-native blog — Cloudflare Workers + Hono + React + pluggable storage adapters. Maintained by one-ea on GitHub, where it has earned 340 stars from the community.

Open source virtual desktops for AI agents. Maintained by cyberdesk-hq on GitHub, where it has earned 314 stars from the community.

A powerful, privacy-friendly open source web analytics tool that runs entirely on Cloudflare. Maintained by RavelloH on GitHub, where it has earned 296 stars from the community.

Lightweight fullstack turborepo with modular components, shared configs, containerised deployments and 100% type-safety. Maintained by nktnet1 on GitHub, where it has earned 296 stars from the community.

A free image hosting application based on Cloudflare's Worker, R2, Pages, and D1 architectures. Cloudflare Worker、R2、Pages、D1. Maintained by roimdev on GitHub, where it has earned 289 stars from the community.

Put the world's smartest AI agents & plugins in your pocket. Maintained by xiaotonng on GitHub, where it has earned 287 stars from the community.

Self-hosted feed generation toolkit for turning webpages, email folders, APIs, and messy web sources into reliable RSS feeds. Maintained by TBosak on GitHub, where it has earned 285 stars from the community.

｜ALL SET：，、、。. Maintained by TedLin1993 on GitHub, where it has earned 279 stars from the community.

An AI agent that reads your PDFs and draws editable mind maps — visible tool-calling loop, built-in RAG, bring-your-own-key, multi-provider (OpenAI / Claude / DeepSeek / Kimi). Self-hostable. Maintained by xianjianlf2 on GitHub, where it has earned 279 stars from the community.

Self-hostable AGPL workspace where humans and AI agents share chat, tasks, knowledge, approvals, and MCP context. Maintained by Maneek21 on GitHub, where it has earned 256 stars from the community.

Selfhosted. URL to PNG utility featuring parallel rendering using Playwright for screenshots and with storage caching via Local, S3, or CouchDB. Maintained by jasonraimondi on GitHub, where it has earned 251 stars from the community.

Self-hosted email sending platform built on Cloudflare Email Sending — REST API, admin UI, templates, domain management, scoped API keys, all in one Docker container. Maintained by 0xdps on GitHub, where it has earned 250 stars from the community.

Real-time collaboration with Yjs on Cloudflare Workers using Durable Objects, eliminating Node.js dependencies. Inspired by y-websocket. Maintained by napolab on GitHub, where it has earned 250 stars from the community.

Advanced data table component with server-side operations using Hono.js, Drizzle ORM, and PostgreSQL. Maintained by jacksonkasi1 on GitHub, where it has earned 243 stars from the community.

A boilerplate for building production-ready RESTful APIs using Cloudflare, Hono, and Planetscale. Maintained by OultimoCoder on GitHub, where it has earned 239 stars from the community.

A full-featured ActivityPub server for networked publishing with Ghost. Maintained by TryGhost on GitHub, where it has earned 239 stars from the community.

The universal agent payment layer. Maintained by MPP32 on GitHub, where it has earned 236 stars from the community.

A production-ready Next.js boilerplate with modern tooling, comprehensive testing, and enterprise-grade features. Maintained by yeasin2002 on GitHub, where it has earned 230 stars from the community.

What is Hono?

Hono is a tiny, ultrafast web framework that runs on Cloudflare, Deno, Bun, and Node. This gallery lists 285 open-source projects built with Hono, most of them in DevTools, AI & ML and Templates, ranked by GitHub stars so the most-adopted repositories come first.

How projects are selected

Projects are public GitHub repositories found with the GitHub search query “topic:hono” and at least 20 stars. Each repository is checked against Hono’s languages and ecosystem before it is categorized, and stars, forks and last-commit dates come straight from the GitHub API, refreshed daily (current snapshot: October 6, 2026). Nothing here is paid placement.

Hono projects: FAQ

How many open-source Hono projects are listed?: 285 open-source projects built with Hono are listed, sourced from public GitHub repositories as of October 6, 2026.
What is the most-starred Hono project on GitHub?: pear-desktop by pear-devs leads with 32,715 GitHub stars (32.7k), followed by react-starter-kit with 23,690.
What kinds of projects are built with Hono?: The largest category is DevTools, with 128 projects (45% of the gallery), followed by AI & ML with 49. Projects span 14 categories in total.
Which license do most Hono projects use?: MIT is the most common license, used by 172 of 285 projects (60%); Apache-2.0 is next with 20. 70 projects declare no recognized license.

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