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librephotosvsWebCodex

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

librephotosWebCodex
Score71/10055/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Photo Management#60 of 166 in Developer Tools
GitHub stars8 1182 448
Stars, last 30 days+35—
Stable releases, 12 months137
Latest release1.5.0 · 28 Oct 2026v0.4.6 · 4 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main languagePythonRust

Which one should you pick?

librephotos scores 71/100 against 55/100 for WebCodex, so it is the safer default.

librephotos ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 7 for WebCodex.

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

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