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Doory shaongitbd/doory

Self-hostable browser design editor for posters, social posts, slides and cards, with templates, brand kits, co-editing and PNG/PDF/MP4 export.

Doory at a glance

Checked 15 Oct 2026

Doory is a Canva-style editor (React and Fabric.js front end, Django back end) that you self-host with Docker. It covers social posts, slides, print with bleed, animation, brand kits and real-time co-editing, but ships only ten starter templates and calls itself a young project. The repo was created on 10 Oct 2026. Licence is the Attribution Assurance License: commercial use is allowed but anyone redistributing must show the author credit in the running app. No hardware requirements documented.

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How much of Canva does it replace?

4 of 5 jobs. Broad Canva-like feature set, but only ten starter templates; no large template or stock library.

Partial: Template-based social and marketing graphics Partial replacement
Partial: Designed presentations and slide decks Partial replacement
Partial: Brand kits (shared colours Partial replacement
No: Online whiteboards Not covered
Partial: Print designs (posters Partial replacement

For online whiteboards, see other Canva alternatives. You may also need to build an interface, an API server and hosting yourself.

Facts, with sources

Every answer links to where we found it. We read the documentation; we did not install it.

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Runs on my machine? Confirmed: Self-hosted web app (Docker Compose, or nginx and systemd on Linux) There is no paid plan, you don't need an account to start, and you can run it on your own server with Docker or without it. github.com · doory#self-host-it ↗ 1d ago
Code licence Partial: Attribution Assurance License (OSI-approved, BSD-style with a mandatory in-app author credit) each time the resulting executable program or a program dependent thereon is launched, a prominent display (e.g., splash screen or banner text) of the Author's attribution information github.com · LICENSE ↗ 1d ago
Model weights licence Confirmed: No separate model weights (an optional in-browser background-removal model is downloaded separately) github.com · doory#readme ↗ 1d ago
Commercial use Partial: Yes, if you keep the licence and NOTICE and show the author credit in the running app You may use, change and redistribute it, including commercially, but **you must credit the author** github.com · doory#license-and-credit ↗ 1d ago
Paid services needed? Confirmed: None required; stock photo search needs a free Unsplash or Pexels key stock photo search with an Unsplash or Pexels key github.com · doory#readme ↗ 1d ago
Hardware Unknown: Not documented Know the answer? —
Operating systems Partial: Server via Docker, or Debian 12 / Ubuntu 24.04 without Docker; clients use a web browser These steps are for Debian 12 or Ubuntu 24.04 with the checkout in `/opt/doory` github.com · doory#readme ↗ 1d ago
Setup effort Confirmed: Medium; docker compose with PostgreSQL, then create an admin and seed templates docker compose up -d --build github.com · doory#self-host-it ↗ 1d ago

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