Wexflow is a cross-platform, open-source workflow engine and automation platform designed to streamline and automate recurring tasks. It comes with a powerful workflow server, a modern admin panel for managing workflows, and supports both sequential and flowchart-based workflows.
With over 100 built-in activities, Wexflow supports a wide range of tasks out of the box—from file operations and system processes to scripting, networking, and more. You can also extend its capabilities by creating custom activities or integrating with external systems via the Wexflow API.
Wexflow targets both developers and technical users who need automation (file ops, tasks, scheduling, alerts, etc.). Wexflow is more like a task automation and scheduling platform. It focuses on automating technical jobs like moving or uploading files, sending emails, running scripts, or scheduling batch processes. It's great when you want to automate system tasks easily without writing much code. For more complex scenarios, you can create your own custom activities, install them, and use them within Wexflow to extend its capabilities.
Whether you're automating simple scheduled jobs or orchestrating complex business processes, Wexflow offers a flexible, extensible, and developer-friendly solution.
Once Wexflow is installed, you can access the admin panel at:
- URL: http://localhost:8000/
- Username:
admin - Password:
wexflow2018
Important: For your security, change the default password after your first login.
Wexflow is primarily a workflow automation engine, not a full BPM suite. Wexflow does not natively support BPMN, human workflows, or built-in user forms. So if your business processes require a lot of human interaction, approvals, or business rule evaluation, Wexflow would be limited.
Wexflow excels at automating technical tasks, such as moving or transforming files, uploading to FTP/SFTP, running scripts (PowerShell, Bash, Python, etc.), scheduling and chaining tasks, triggering workflows by events, manual input, cron or watchfolders, designing flows visually (Designer UI), integrating with APIs and databases, supporting conditional logic (if/else, switch, while).
You can use Wexflow if your processes are mostly system-based, such as back-office automation (file syncing, reporting, monitoring), ETL pipelines, DevOps or IT operations automation or API integrations between systems.
| Feature / Tool | Wexflow | Zapier | Power Automate | n8n | Apache Airflow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source | ✅ Yes | ❌ No | ❌ No | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Self-Hosted | ✅ Yes | ❌ No | ✅ (Premium) | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Visual Designer | ✅ Built-in (Web) | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | 🟡 Limited (via plugins) |
| Custom Task Support | ✅ C# tasks, scripts | ❌ No | 🟡 Limited | ✅ JS functions | ✅ Python |
| Execution Graph | ✅ Yes (Flowchart) | ❌ No | ❌ No | 🟡 Simple logic | ✅ DAGs |
| Trigger Types | Cron, Events, Watchers | App events | App events | Cron, Webhooks | Cron, DAG Triggers |
| Offline Usage | ✅ Yes | ❌ No | ❌ No | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Best For | Devs & Sysadmins | Non-tech users | Business users | Devs & startups | Data engineers |
Wexflow gives you full control, extensibility, and offline capability with no vendor lock-in.
- Cross-platform workflow server
- Supports sequential, flowchart, and approval workflows
- Cron-based scheduling
- 100+ built-in activities
- 6+ database engines supported
- Extensible architecture for custom activities
- Powerful web dashboard
- Visual workflow designer with drag & drop interface
- Real-time workflow statistics and monitoring
- Extensive logging for transparency and debugging
- Native Android app
- Responsive web interface
- Multiple language support (English, French, Danish)
- RESTful API for integration with external systems
- Extensible with Custom Activities via NuGet
- Docker support for easy deployment
- Error monitoring
- Runs on macOS, Linux, Windows, and Docker
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The source code for the official Wexflow website is available here:
https://github.com/wexflow/wexflow.github.io
It features a clean landing page with multilingual support, dark mode, and SEO optimizations to help it reach users in different languages and regions.
The codebase follows the Separation of Concerns (SoC) principle, with a modular and maintainable architecture that aligns with the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP), modularity, and modern frontend best practices. It uses GitHub Actions for automatic builds and deployments.
⚡ Ultra-fast performance
The website loads in under 1.5 seconds on slow 4G with 0ms blocking, 0 layout shift, and a blazing Speed Index of 0.8.
Feel free to explore the code, suggest improvements, or use it as a template for your own landing page.
- Installing
- HTTPS/SSL
- Screenshots
- Docker
- Configuration
- Persistence Providers
- Getting Started
- Android App
- Samples
- Local Variables
- Global Variables
- REST Variables
- Functions
- Cron Scheduling
- Command Line Client
- RESTful API
- Logging
- Custom Tasks
- Built-in Tasks
- File system tasks
- Encryption tasks
- Compression tasks
- Iso tasks
- Speech tasks
- Hashing tasks
- Process tasks
- Network tasks
- XML tasks
- SQL tasks
- WMI tasks
- Image tasks
- Audio and video tasks
- Email tasks
- Workflow tasks
- Social media tasks
- Waitable tasks
- Reporting tasks
- Web tasks
- Script tasks
- JSON and YAML tasks
- Entities tasks
- Flowchart tasks
- Approval tasks
- Notification tasks
- SMS tasks
- Run from Source
Wexflow is MIT licensed.
