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librephotosvsQuickstart

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

librephotosQuickstart
Score71/10052/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Photo Management#60 of 142 in Media Management
GitHub stars8 118206
Stars, last 30 days+35—
Stable releases, 12 months1318
Latest release1.5.0 · 28 Oct 2026v0.10.16 · 26 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITMIT
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

librephotos scores 71/100 against 52/100 for Quickstart, so it is the safer default.

Quickstart ships more often: 18 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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