Umbrel is a personal home cloud and self-hosting platform that lets users run a private Bitcoin and Lightning node, store files and media, and access a library of over 300 self-hosted apps. Umbrel's Twitter Score is 84 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of October 2026, ranking #9,410 (top 5%) among 498,181 tracked accounts.
Umbrel ships umbrelOS, a home server operating system licensed under the PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 license, which permits free personal and nonprofit use while requiring commercial users to contact the company. The platform's Umbrel App Store covers a wide range of self-hosted software, with crypto-focused offerings including Bitcoin Node, Lightning Node, Electrs, mempool, Fedimint, Alby Hub, Bison Wallet, Public Pool, and related Bitcoin privacy and mining tools. Users can connect their own wallets directly to their node for independent verification and improved privacy.
Umbrel also runs OpenClaw and Hermes Agent, alongside local AI tooling via Ollama, positioning the product as a broader personal cloud beyond Bitcoin infrastructure. The underlying GitHub repository for umbrelOS has accumulated over 11,600 stars and more than 760 forks, with the latest release being umbrelOS 1.7.3. The legal entity behind the platform is Umbrel, Inc., and the team is fully remote with fewer than ten people.
Umbrel raised $3.4 million, backed by investors including Naval Ravikant, OSS Capital, Sahil Lavingia, Sam Lessin of Slow Ventures, Village Global, and Andreas Antonopoulos, among others. Umbrel has published 17,881 posts and has 75,342 followers as of October 2026 on the platform. Umbrel has been mentioned by 191 accounts a total of 472 times.
Who follows Umbrel on X?
The accounts that follow Umbrel include 461 founders, 75 angel investors, 244 influencers and 6 VCs. Among them are Udi Wertheimer, John Wang, Adam Back, Jake Brukhman, 0xMaki and mikedemarais.eth.