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librephotosvsplex-rewind

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

librephotosplex-rewind
Score71/10046/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Photo Management#92 of 142 in Media Management
GitHub stars8 118303
Stars, last 30 days+35+0
Stable releases, 12 months1326
Latest release1.5.0 · 28 Oct 2026v5.4.1-develop.2 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonTypescript

Which one should you pick?

librephotos scores 71/100 against 46/100 for plex-rewind, so it is the safer default.

plex-rewind ships more often: 26 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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