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librephotosvsSPFtoolbox

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

librephotosSPFtoolbox
Score71/10046/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Photo Management#17 of 20 in Network Utilities
GitHub stars8 120299
Stars, last 30 days+37+0
Stable releases, 12 months130
Latest release1.5.0 · 28 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseMITMIT
Main languagePythonPHP

Which one should you pick?

librephotos scores 71/100 against 46/100 for SPFtoolbox, so it is the safer default.

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

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

librephotos is growing faster right now (+37 stars in 30 days).

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