Downtify
Download Spotify music with album art and metadata.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 558 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 3.8.0 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Media Management: Sonarr Cloud alternatives.
At a glance
Downtify quick facts
- Health score
- 92/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 819
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 3.8.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Self-hosted music downloader. Paste a Spotify link, get a perfectly tagged audio file — no API keys, no account, no hassle."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Downtify scores 92/100, #9 of 30 in Media Management: 558 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (3.8.0, yesterday) earns 25.0 of 25, 819 stars add 11.7 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 8.3 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
558 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
3.8.0 released yesterday
- Stars biggest shortfall 11.7 / 20
819 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 558
- Last 90 days
- 793
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #9 of 30 tools in Media Management by health , between Youtarr (#8) and Lingarr (#10) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | 3.8.0 · yesterday |
| Stars | 819 |
| Open issues | 27 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | henriquesebastiao/downtify ↗ |
Downtify vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Downtify (Media Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radarr | 97 | 15k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Lidarr | 95 | 5.8k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Youtarr | 93 | 1.8k | ISC | yesterday |
| Downtify (this tool) | 92 | 819 | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| TrackWatch | 69 | 25 | MIT | 5 days ago |
| Lidify | 57 | 608 | MIT | 18 days ago |
Downtify: common questions
Is Downtify still maintained?
Downtify had 558 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, 3.8.0, is from yesterday. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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