Media management spans photo and video libraries, music streaming, reading collections, live video, transcription, and related workflows. This July 2026 comparison uses ToolVitals data on project health, shipping activity, licensing, repository popularity, and overall score to identify maintained, source-visible options.
The ranking includes only open or source-visible tools and orders them by ToolVitals score, with GitHub stars used as a secondary popularity signal for ties. Every listed project is labeled OSI-approved OSS in the supplied data, but scores vary substantially: the top five reach 90 or higher, while the bottom four score below 50.
Rankings
| Rank | Tool | Openness | License | Health | Shipping | GitHub Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Immich | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 95 | 100 | 107987 | 98 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 2 | Jellyfin | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-2.0 | 94 | 89 | 54389 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 3 | Navidrome | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 90 | 89 | 22362 | 92 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 4 | PicPeak | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 89 | 95 | 248 | 91 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 5 | AudioMuse AI | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 88 | 95 | 2256 | 90 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 6 | Openinary | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 78 | 86 | 364 | 86 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 7 | SuggestArr | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 89 | 73 | 1210 | 85 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 8 | PhotoPrism | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 77 | 77 | 39982 | 83 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 9 | Audiobookshelf | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 85 | 69 | 13588 | 82 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 10 | MediaCMS | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 84 | 67 | 5025 | 81 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 11 | Seerr | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 83 | 63 | 11906 | 80 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 12 | Wanderbound | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 73 | 82 | 1 | 80 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 13 | Owncast | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 69 | 63 | 11399 | 75 | 🟢 Good |
| 14 | Kavita | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 72 | 60 | 11259 | 74 | 🟢 Good |
| 15 | Komga | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 78 | 46 | 6459 | 73 | 🟢 Good |
| 16 | Piwigo | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-2.0 | 73 | 33 | 3819 | 66 | 🟢 Good |
| 17 | Swing Music | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 65 | 40 | 2021 | 66 | 🟢 Good |
| 18 | Cliply | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 72 | 34 | 210 | 66 | 🟢 Good |
| 19 | OpenCut | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 63 | 37 | 75245 | 64 | 🟢 Good |
| 20 | AI Video Transcriber | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 51 | 7 | 2974 | 49 | 🟡 Fair |
| 21 | Hovod | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 46 | 14 | 14 | 44 | 🟡 Fair |
| 22 | Castopod | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 38 | 7 | 856 | 42 | 🟡 Fair |
| 23 | Cobalt | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 41 | 0 | 41610 | 39 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 24 | Opsily | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 26 | 0 | 36 | 31 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
Top 3 Highlights
Immich ranks first with a ToolVitals score of 98, the highest health score at 95, and a shipping score of 100. Its 107,987 GitHub stars are also the most in this ranking. It is a self-hosted photo and video management solution labeled OSI-approved OSS under AGPL-3.0.
Jellyfin ranks second with a ToolVitals score of 94, supported by a health score of 94 and a shipping score of 89. Its 54,389 GitHub stars make it one of the most widely starred projects here. The media server backend and API are labeled OSI-approved OSS under GPL-2.0.
Navidrome places third with a ToolVitals score of 92, a health score of 90, and a shipping score of 89. It focuses specifically on personal music streaming and has 22,362 GitHub stars. The project is labeled OSI-approved OSS under GPL-3.0.
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