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PhotoPrismvsplex-rewind

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

PhotoPrismplex-rewind
Score76/10046/100
Rank in category#4 of 142 in Media Management#92 of 142 in Media Management
GitHub stars40 373303
Stars, last 30 days+140—
Stable releases, 12 months726
Latest release261007-65faaae5d · 7 Oct 2026v5.4.1-develop.2 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseOtherGPL-3.0
Main languageGoTypescript

Which one should you pick?

PhotoPrism scores 76/100 against 46/100 for plex-rewind, so it is the safer default.

plex-rewind ships more often: 26 stable releases in the past year, against 7 for PhotoPrism.

PhotoPrism is growing faster right now (+140 stars in 30 days).

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