Feature overview
Olares offers a wide array of features designed to enhance security, ease of use, and development flexibility:
- Enterprise-grade security: Secure your self-hosted cloud with simplified network configuration using Tailscale, Headscale, Cloudflare Tunnel, and FRP.
- Secure and permissionless application ecosystem: Access nearly 100 free applications in a secure, sandboxed environment. See what Olares Market has to offer.
- Unified file system and database: Support automated scaling, backups, and high availability.
- Single sign-on: Log in once to access all applications within Olares with a shared authentication service.
- AI capabilities: Manage GPU resources, host AI models locally, and build private knowledge bases with complete privacy.
- Built-in applications: Get started with essential pre-installed applications such as Files, Vault, Wise, Profile and Dashboard.
- Seamless anywhere access: Access your devices from anywhere using dedicated clients for mobile, desktop, and browsers.
- Development tools: Build and port applications easily with comprehensive development tools.
Feature comparison
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- 🚀: Auto, indicates that the system completes the task automatically.
- ✅: Yes, indicates that users without a developer background can complete the setup through the product's UI prompts.
- 🛠️: Manual Configuration, indicates that even users with an engineering background need to refer to tutorials to complete the setup.
- ✖️: No, indicates that the feature is not supported.
| Olares | Synology | TrueNAS | CasaOS | Unraid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-node | ✅ | ✖️ | ✅ | ✖️ | ✖️ |
| Build-in apps | ✅ (Rich desktop apps) | ✅ (Rich desktop apps) | ✖️ (CLI) | ✅ (Simple desktop apps) | ✅ (Dashboard) |
| Free domain name | ✅ | ✅ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ |
| Auto SSL certificate | 🚀 | ✅ | 🛠️ | 🛠️ | 🛠️ |
| Reverse proxy | 🚀 | ✅ | 🛠️ | 🛠️ | 🛠️ |
| VPN management | 🚀 | 🛠️ | 🛠️ | 🛠️ | 🛠️ |
| Graded app entrance | 🚀 | 🛠️ | 🛠️ | 🛠️ | 🛠️ |
| Multi-user management | ✅ User management 🚀 Resource isolation | ✅ User management 🛠️ Resource isolation | ✅ User management 🛠️ Resource isolation | ✖️ | ✅ User management 🛠️ Resource isolation |
| Single login for all apps | 🚀 | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ |
| Cross-node storage | 🚀 (Juicefs+ MinIO) | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ |
| Database solution | 🚀 (Built-in cloud-native solution) | 🛠️ | 🛠️ | 🛠️ | 🛠️ |
| Disaster recovery | 🚀 (MinIO's Erasure Coding) | ✅ RAID | ✅ RAID | ✅ RAID | ✅ Unraid Storage |
| Backup | ✅ App Data ✅ User Data | ✅ User Data | ✅ User Data | ✅ User Data | ✅ User Data |
| App sandboxing | ✅ | ✖️ | ✖️ (K8S's namespace) | ✖️ | ✖️ |
| App ecosystem | ✅ (Official + third-party) | ✅ (Majorly official apps) | ✅ (Official + third-party submissions) | ✅ Majorly official apps | ✅ (Community app market) |
| Developer friendly | ✅ IDE ✅ CLI ✅ SDK ✅ Doc | ✅ CLI ✅ SDK ✅ Doc | ✅ CLI ✅ Doc | ✅ CLI ✅ Doc | ✅ Doc |
| Local LLM hosting | 🚀 | 🛠️ | 🛠️ | 🛠️ | 🛠️ |
| Local LLM app development | 🚀 | 🛠️ | 🛠️ | 🛠️ | 🛠️ |
| Client platforms | ✅ Android ✅ iOS ✅ Windows ✅ Mac ✅ Chrome Plugin | ✅ Android ✅ iOS | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ |
| Client functionality | ✅ (All-in-one client app) | ✅ (14 separate client apps) | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ |