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librephotosvsnginx-love

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

librephotosnginx-love
Score71/10050/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Photo Management#3 of 3 in Web Application Firewall
GitHub stars8 120312
Stars, last 30 days+37+0
Stable releases, 12 months131
Latest release1.5.0 · 28 Oct 2026v4.01 · 31 Oct 2025
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main languagePythonTypescript

Which one should you pick?

librephotos scores 71/100 against 50/100 for nginx-love, so it is the safer default.

librephotos ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for nginx-love.

librephotos is growing faster right now (+37 stars in 30 days).

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