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March 6, 2026

FoxDesk v0.3.75 Is Live

Updated August 17, 2026 to reflect the current FoxDesk editions and canonical website.

My New Year's resolution this year was simple: ship one real thing every two months. So I started with FoxDesk.

It's an open-source helpdesk and time tracking app. Free. Self-hosted. No per-agent pricing, no vendor lock-in, and no surprise moment where exporting your own data becomes a premium feature.

I built it for AENZE after trying too many helpdesk tools that all somehow felt different and identical at the same time: more seats, more cost, more tabs, more confusion, more enterprise features, less actual joy.

So I built the version I wanted to use. FoxDesk gives you tickets and work logs in one place, without turning basic support into a software procurement event.

If you're a freelancer, a small team, or an agency juggling multiple clients and trying to keep track of who did what for how long, FoxDesk is for you.

And yes, it's 2026, so it also works for AI agents. Use simple markdown reports or connect them through API. You can track their work and report it to clients.

Download it. Install it. Run it on your own server. Your data stays yours, which really should not be a revolutionary idea, but here we are.

FoxDesk v0.3.75 was the first public milestone in March. The open-source application has kept moving since then and remains public under AGPL-3.0. The canonical product website is now foxdesk.net.

What changed after this release

There are now two clear ways to use FoxDesk. The public open-source edition is for teams that want to run the application on infrastructure they control. FoxDesk Cloud is the hosted service for teams that want the same request, worklog, and client-report workflow without operating a server. Cloud tenancy, billing, and platform administration are separate private SaaS modules; they are not hidden inside the public repository.

The hosted version is now available in the FoxDesk Cloud public beta.

FoxDesk dashboard
FoxDesk tickets list
FoxDesk ticket detail
FoxDesk time report

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