selfhost.directory

The index of self-hostable projects — ranked, categorized and served with live updates.
Own your data and stop giving it to big tech.

PhotoPrismvsxpipe-webtop

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

PhotoPrismxpipe-webtop
Score76/10070/100
Rank in category#4 of 142 in Media Management#5 of 23 in Remote Access
GitHub stars40 37314 632
Stars, last 30 days+138+74
Stable releases, 12 months735
Latest release261007-65faaae5d · 7 Oct 202624.9 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseOtherApache-2.0
Main languageGoJava

Which one should you pick?

PhotoPrism scores 76/100 against 70/100 for xpipe-webtop, so it is the safer default.

xpipe-webtop ships more often: 35 stable releases in the past year, against 7 for PhotoPrism.

If you want the quickest setup, xpipe-webtop is easier to run; PhotoPrism needs more configuration.

Swap a project

Keep PhotoPrism, compare it with
Keep xpipe-webtop, compare it with