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librephotosvsOtari

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

librephotosOtari
Score71/10056/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Photo Management#14 of 39 in API Gateway
GitHub stars8 119752
Stars, last 30 days+36+1
Stable releases, 12 months1310
Latest release1.5.0 · 28 Oct 2026v0.33.0 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

librephotos scores 71/100 against 56/100 for Otari, so it is the safer default.

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

librephotos is growing faster right now (+36 stars in 30 days).

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