selfhost.directory

The index of self-hostable projects — ranked, categorized and served with live updates.
Own your data and stop giving it to big tech.

librephotosvsquackback

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

librephotosquackback
Score71/10050/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Photo Management#9 of 14 in Customer Support
GitHub stars8 120331
Stars, last 30 days+37+0
Stable releases, 12 months1315
Latest release1.5.0 · 28 Oct 2026v0.14.1 · 7 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonTypescript

Which one should you pick?

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

quackback ships more often: 15 stable releases in the past year, against 13 for librephotos.

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

Swap a project

Keep librephotos, compare it with
Keep quackback, compare it with