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librephotosvsmedia-journal

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

librephotosmedia-journal
Score71/10045/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Photo Management#98 of 142 in Media Management
GitHub stars8 118138
Stars, last 30 days+35—
Stable releases, 12 months1320
Latest release1.5.0 · 28 Oct 2026v1.31.3 · 15 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

librephotos scores 71/100 against 45/100 for media-journal, so it is the safer default.

media-journal ships more often: 20 stable releases in the past year, against 13 for librephotos.

librephotos is growing faster right now (+35 stars in 30 days).

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