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librephotosvsZealot

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

librephotosZealot
Score71/10055/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Photo Management#17 of 28 in CI/CD
GitHub stars8 1181 367
Stars, last 30 days+35+0
Stable releases, 12 months133
Latest release1.5.0 · 28 Oct 20266.2.2 · 25 Jul 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITMIT
Main languagePythonRuby

Which one should you pick?

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

librephotos ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 3 for Zealot.

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

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