Media
Media Management
Media servers, audio, video, photo, and content library tools.
Best Media Management tools by public signals
These picks are computed from scored public evidence. Use the openness column in the ranking to separate OSI-approved, source-available, open-core, proprietary, and unverified-license tools.
Use Case Rankings
Ordered by ToolVitals score, then health, shipping, confidence, GitHub stars, and name.
| # | Tool | Health | Shipping | Openness | Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Jellyfin The Free Software Media System - Server Backend & API | 98 | 97 | OSI-approved OSS | 57k | 98 | Active |
| 02 | Immich High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution. | 97 | 96 | OSI-approved OSS | 114k | 97 | Active |
| 03 | PicPeak 🚀 Self-hosted photo sharing platform for photographers & events. Open-source alternative to PicDrop/Scrapbook with time-limited galleries, password protection, custom branding & no monthly fees. Built with React + Node.js 📸 | 96 | 97 | OSI-approved OSS | 315 | 96 | Active |
| 04 | Navidrome 🎧 Your Personal Streaming Service | 96 | 94 | OSI-approved OSS | 23.5k | 95 | Active |
| 05 | AudioMuse AI AudioMuse-AI is a self-hosted, Dockerized music playlist generator using sonic analysis to discover related tracks for Jellyfin, Navidrome, LMS, Lyrion, and Emby: no metadata or external APIs needed. | 94 | 96 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.6k | 95 | Active |
| 06 | Audiobookshelf Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server | 95 | 92 | OSI-approved OSS | 14.3k | 94 | Active |
| 07 | Seerr Open-source media request and discovery manager for Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby. | 95 | 92 | OSI-approved OSS | 12.6k | 94 | Active |
| 08 | SuggestArr Effortlessly request recommended movies, TV shows and anime to Jellyseer/Overseer based on your recently watched content on Jellyfin, Plex or Emby—let SuggestArr handle it all automatically, keeping your library fresh with new and exciting content! | 94 | 94 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.3k | 94 | Active |
| 09 | PhotoPrism AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web 🌈💎✨ | 93 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 40.2k | 94 | Active |
| 10 | Komga Media server for comics/mangas/BDs/magazines/eBooks with API, OPDS, Kobo Sync and KOReader Sync support | 92 | 90 | OSI-approved OSS | 6.7k | 91 | Active |
| 11 | Owncast Take control over your live stream video by running it yourself. Streaming + chat out of the box. | 92 | 89 | OSI-approved OSS | 11.5k | 91 | Active |
| 12 | Wanderbound Turn a Polarsteps data export into a print-ready photo album. | 89 | 91 | OSI-approved OSS | 3 | 90 | Active |
| 13 | Kavita Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server. Built with the goal of being a full solution for all your reading needs. Setup your own server and share your reading collection with your friends and family. | 90 | 87 | OSI-approved OSS | 11.7k | 89 | Active |
| 14 | Cliply download stuff effortlessly :D | 86 | 88 | OSI-approved OSS | 249 | 87 | Active |
| 15 | Openinary The self-hostable alternative to Cloudinary | 80 | 74 | OSI-approved OSS | 399 | 78 | Active |
| 16 | MediaCMS MediaCMS is a modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django and React, featuring a REST API. | 74 | 63 | OSI-approved OSS | 5.1k | 69 | Warning |
| 17 | Hovod Open-source self-hosted video platform. | 70 | 65 | OSI-approved OSS | 33 | 68 | Warning |
| 18 | Swing Music Swing Music is a beautiful, self-hosted music player for your local audio files. Like a cooler Spotify ... but bring your own music. | 67 | 62 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.1k | 65 | Warning |
| 19 | Piwigo Manage your photos with Piwigo, a full featured open source photo gallery application for the web. Star us on Github! More than 200 plugins and themes available. Join us and contribute! | 63 | 42 | OSI-approved OSS | 3.9k | 55 | Warning |
| 20 | Run and Read Audiobook Open-source project for creating AI TTS-narrated audiobooks at home. | 57 | 45 | OSI-approved OSS | 61 | 52 | Warning |
| 21 | OpenCut The open-source CapCut alternative | 53 | 35 | OSI-approved OSS | 89.4k | 45 | Warning |
| 22 | AI Video Transcriber Open-source multi-platform AI video and podcast transcription and summarization tool. | 49 | 31 | OSI-approved OSS | 3.3k | 42 | Critical |
| 23 | Castopod Castopod is an open-source hosting platform made for podcasters who want engage and interact with their audience. Synchronized read-only mirror of https://code.castopod.org/adaures/castopod | 16 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 873 | 10 | Critical |
| 24 | Cobalt best way to save what you love | 11 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 43.2k | 6 | Critical |