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librephotosvsShelfBridge

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

librephotosShelfBridge
Score71/10047/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Photo Management#9 of 15 in Audiobook Management
GitHub stars8 118158
Stars, last 30 days+35—
Stable releases, 12 months1315
Latest release1.5.0 · 28 Oct 2026v1.23.13 · 10 Aug 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITMIT
Main languagePythonJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

librephotos scores 71/100 against 47/100 for ShelfBridge, so it is the safer default.

ShelfBridge ships more often: 15 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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