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librephotosvsshm

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

librephotosshm
Score71/10045/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Photo Management#77 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars8 121165
Stars, last 30 days+38+0
Stable releases, 12 months139
Latest release1.5.0 · 28 Oct 2026v1.2.7 · 29 Jul 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonGo

Which one should you pick?

librephotos scores 71/100 against 45/100 for shm, so it is the safer default.

librephotos ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 9 for shm.

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

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