Immich
Photo Galleries
v3.4.1
Immich is a self-hosted photo and video management platform that lets you back up, organize, and browse your media library on your own server.todayAGPL-3.0DockerDemoModerate
Best self-hosted Media Management
Running media management software yourself keeps your photos, videos, files and downloads on hardware you control. More about Media Management
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Calibre
Ebook Management
v9.18.0calibre is a comprehensive e-book library manager for personal use.6d agoGPL-3.0No DockerEasy
cobalt
Download Management
11.7.1cobalt is a media downloader for public content from over twenty social and video sites: you paste a link and get the file, without ads, trackers or a paywall.7mo agoAGPL-3.0DockerEasy
Sonarr
Media Management
v4.0.20.3014Sonarr is a PVR — a personal video recorder for TV shows — aimed at people who grab episodes over Usenet or torrents.1mo agoGPL-3.0DockerModerate
RomM
Emulation
5.4.1RomM (ROM Manager) is a self-hosted web application for organizing and playing retro game collections.20d agoAGPL-3.0DockerDemoModerate
Radarr
Download Management
v6.4.4.10685Aimed at Usenet and BitTorrent users, Radarr keeps a movie library organized for you: add a title, pick a quality profile, and it watches indexer RSS feeds…1mo agoGPL-3.0DockerEasy
Cloudreve
Cloud Storage
4.19.1Cloudreve is a self-hosted drive and file-sharing platform written in Go, intended for running a private or public cloud storage service of your own.1mo agoGPL-3.0DockerDemoEasy
Beets
Music
v2.14.1beets is a Python media library manager for people who want their music metadata fixed once and kept clean.1mo agoMITNo DockerModerate
Stash
Media Management
v0.32.0Stash is a Go web application you run on your own machine to catalogue and watch a personal video and image collection, adult content included.10d agoAGPL-3.0DockerEasy
seerr
Media Management
v3.5.2Seerr is a free open-source application that manages media requests for your library.todayMITDockerModerate
PhotoPrism
Media Management
261029-963b58c50PhotoPrism® is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web.13d agoAGPL-3.0DockerModerate
MeTube
Download Management
2026.11.10MeTube is a web interface for yt-dlp, for people who want videos saved to their own disk rather than to a third-party download site.1d agoAGPL-3.0DockerEasy
Stremio
Media Streaming
v5.0.0-beta.43Stremio Web is the official browser interface of Stremio, the "Freedom to Stream" media center, and it lets you run that interface in your own container.23d agoGPL-2.0No DockerEasy
MoviePilot
Media Management
v3.2.6MoviePilot is an automation manager for a personal media library on a NAS or home server.todayGPL-3.0DockerModerate
librephotos
Photo Management
1.6.0LibrePhotos is a photo management service you keep on your own hardware.3d agoMITDockerModerate
Lidarr
Media Management
v3.1.6.5079Lidarr is an open-source music library manager aimed at people who get albums from Usenet and BitTorrent and want the grabbing automated.17d agoGPL-3.0No DockerModerate
qui
Download Management
v1.35.0A lightweight, single-binary front end for qBittorrent that lets one install talk to several clients at once over their Web API, so a home server and a…10d agoGPL-2.0DockerDemoEasy
VERT is a file-conversion web app that does the work on the user's own device through WebAssembly instead of uploading files to a cloud service.Vert
File Conversion
29d agoAGPL-3.0DockerDemoEasy
grimmory
Book Management
v3.5.0For readers whose collections span ebooks, comics and audiobooks, Grimmory is a self-hosted library server that indexes book folders you mount into its…1mo agoAGPL-3.0DockerModerate
Bazarr
Media Management
v1.6.2Bazarr is a GPL-3 web application for home media libraries: you define subtitle preferences per TV show or per movie and it keeps those libraries subtitled.1mo agoGPL-3.0DockerEasy
Maintainerr
Media Management
v3.32.0Maintainerr helps you reclaim disk space by automatically removing unwanted media from Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby.7d agoMITDockerModerate
plex-meta-manager
Media Management
v2.5.5Kometa is a command-line Python application for managing Plex media libraries.1d agoMITDockerAdvanced
ytdl-sub-gui
Download Management
2026.11.10.post2ytdl-sub puts yt-dlp under the hood of a declarative workflow: you list channels, playlists or artist pages in a YAML subscriptions file, pick a preset, and…2d agoGPL-3.0DockerModerate
qBittorrent (LinuxServer.io)
Torrent
5.3.0_v2.1.2-ls487This project provides a Docker container for qBittorrent, a popular open-source BitTorrent client written in C++/Qt using libtorrent.4d agoGPL-3.0DockerEasy
MediaCMS
Video Hosting
v9.4.0MediaCMS is an open-source video and media CMS for building small to medium media portals, used by universities, non-profit media organisations and…17d agoAGPL-3.0DockerDemoModerate
slskd
File Sharing
0.26.2slskd brings the Soulseek file-sharing network to a browser: it is a client-server program you run yourself, with the whole client living on the server side…20d agoAGPL-3.0DockerEasy
shelfmark
Download Management
v1.6.2Shelfmark is a web app for finding and downloading ebooks and audiobooks without acting as a library manager: it is the entry point, and completed files are…3d agoMITDockerModerate
AzuraCast
Audio Streaming
0.23.6AzuraCast packages a complete internet radio station into one place: pre-built Docker images hold the broadcasting software and a browser-based control panel…6mo agoAGPL-3.0DockerModerate
About self-hosted Media Management software
The projects in this category cover different parts of that job. Immich is a self-hosted photo and video management solution built for high performance. Jellyfin is the server backend and API of the Free Software Media System. copyparty packs a portable file server into one file, with accelerated resumable uploads, deduplication, WebDAV, SFTP, FTP and a media indexer. Sonarr is a smart PVR for newsgroup and bittorrent users. Each project lists its own licence, so check it before you deploy.
290 self-hosted Media Management projects are listed here, ranked by popularity, maintenance and documentation.
- Highest rated
- Immich (118 993 GitHub stars, AGPL-3.0 license, written in Typescript), followed by Calibre and cobalt
- Docker
- 10 of the top 12 ship an official Docker image
- Easiest to set up
- Calibre, cobalt and Radarr
- Recently updated
- seerr v3.5.2 on 2026-11-12
Top self-hosted Media Management software compared
| Project | License | Language | Stars | Docker | Setup | Latest release | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Immich | AGPL-3.0 | Typescript | 118 993 | Yes | Moderate | v3.4.1 | 93 |
| Calibre | GPL-3.0 | Python | 26 421 | — | Easy | v9.18.0 | 84 |
| cobalt | AGPL-3.0 | Svelte | 46 182 | Yes | Easy | 11.7.1 | 83 |
| Sonarr | GPL-3.0 | C# | 17 666 | Yes | Moderate | v4.0.20.3014 | 80 |
| RomM | AGPL-3.0 | Python | 14 336 | Yes | Moderate | 5.4.1 | 79 |
| Radarr | GPL-3.0 | C# | 14 756 | Yes | Easy | v6.4.4.10685 | 78 |
| seerr | MIT | Typescript | 13 191 | Yes | Moderate | v3.5.2 | 77 |
| Cloudreve | GPL-3.0 | Go | 28 962 | Yes | Easy | 4.19.1 | 77 |
| Stash | AGPL-3.0 | Go | 13 395 | Yes | Easy | v0.32.0 | 77 |
| Beets | MIT | Python | 15 928 | — | Moderate | v2.14.1 | 77 |
| MeTube | AGPL-3.0 | Python | 15 250 | Yes | Easy | 2026.11.10 | 76 |
| PhotoPrism | AGPL-3.0 | Go | 40 443 | Yes | Moderate | 261029-963b58c50 | 76 |