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Paperless-ngxvsProton Mail Bridge

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

Paperless-ngxProton Mail Bridge
Score86/10060/100
Rank in category#3 of 46 in Document Management#11 of 33 in Communication
GitHub stars47 2371 575
Stars, last 30 days+1 281—
Stable releases, 12 months2610
Latest releasev3.3.4 · 22 Oct 2026v3.27.1 · 8 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languagePythonGo

Which one should you pick?

Paperless-ngx scores 86/100 against 60/100 for Proton Mail Bridge, so it is the safer default.

Paperless-ngx ships more often: 26 stable releases in the past year, against 10 for Proton Mail Bridge.

Paperless-ngx is growing faster right now (+1 281 stars in 30 days).

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