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copypartyvsnginx-love

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

copypartynginx-love
Score82/10050/100
Rank in category#1 of 86 in File Sharing#3 of 3 in Web Application Firewall
GitHub stars47 169312
Stars, last 30 days+396—
Stable releases, 12 months191
Latest releasev1.20.26 · 14 Oct 2026v4.01 · 31 Oct 2025
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main languagePythonTypescript

Which one should you pick?

copyparty scores 82/100 against 50/100 for nginx-love, so it is the safer default.

copyparty ships more often: 19 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for nginx-love.

copyparty is growing faster right now (+396 stars in 30 days).

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