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librephotosvsOpenDesign

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

librephotosOpenDesign
Score71/10083/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Photo Management#1 of 7 in Design
GitHub stars8 118104 656
Stars, last 30 days+35+1 825
Stable releases, 12 months1310
Latest release1.5.0 · 28 Oct 2026open-design-v0.26.1 · 22 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main languagePythonTypescript

Which one should you pick?

OpenDesign scores 83/100 against 71/100 for librephotos, so it is the safer default.

librephotos ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 10 for OpenDesign.

OpenDesign is growing faster right now (+1 825 stars in 30 days).

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