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librephotosvssorbay

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

librephotossorbay
Score71/10039/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Photo Management#23 of 25 in Video Conferencing
GitHub stars8 119262
Stars, last 30 days+36+0
Stable releases, 12 months130
Latest release1.5.0 · 28 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

librephotos scores 71/100 against 39/100 for sorbay, so it is the safer default.

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

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

librephotos is growing faster right now (+36 stars in 30 days).

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