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Paperless-ngxvspi-timolo

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

Paperless-ngxpi-timolo
Score86/10051/100
Rank in category#3 of 46 in Document Management#16 of 36 in Video Streaming
GitHub stars47 259579
Stars, last 30 days+1 268+0
Stable releases, 12 months260
Latest releasev3.3.4 · 22 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseGPL-3.0MIT
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

Paperless-ngx scores 86/100 against 51/100 for pi-timolo, so it is the safer default.

Paperless-ngx ships more often: 26 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for pi-timolo.

Paperless-ngx is growing faster right now (+1 268 stars in 30 days).

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