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librephotosvsTerraforming Mars

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

librephotosTerraforming Mars
Score71/10062/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Photo Management#4 of 14 in Gaming
GitHub stars8 118961
Stars, last 30 days+35+9
Stable releases, 12 months130
Latest release1.5.0 · 28 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonTypescript

Which one should you pick?

librephotos scores 71/100 against 62/100 for Terraforming Mars, so it is the safer default.

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

librephotos is growing faster right now (+35 stars in 30 days).

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