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librephotosvsrecipe-buddy

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

librephotosrecipe-buddy
Score71/10044/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Photo Management#15 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars8 121277
Stars, last 30 days+38+0
Stable releases, 12 months130
Latest release1.5.0 · 28 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonTypescript

Which one should you pick?

librephotos scores 71/100 against 44/100 for recipe-buddy, so it is the safer default.

librephotos ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for recipe-buddy.

If you want the quickest setup, recipe-buddy is easier to run; librephotos needs more configuration.

librephotos is growing faster right now (+38 stars in 30 days).

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