EveryDocs
Simple Document Management System for private use with basic functionality to organize your documents digitally.
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Still maintained? Yes: 2 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v1.0 (Oct 2019).
Also an alternative to Paperless Cloud.
At a glance
EveryDocs quick facts
- Health score
- 33/100 STALE
- Stars
- 428
- Last commit
- 3 months ago (Aug 2026)
- Latest release
- v1.0, Oct 2019
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
Top alternatives to EveryDocs
Full rankings: Paperless Cloud alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "EveryDocs Core is the server-side part of EveryDocs. This project contains a web interface. All in all, EveryDocs is a simple Document Management System (DMS) for private use. It contains basic functionality to organize your documents digitally."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
EveryDocs scores 33/100, #16 of 17 in Document Management: 2 commits in the last 90 days earn 2.3 of 35 points, the latest release (v1.0, 7 years ago) earns 0.0 of 25, 428 stars add 10.5 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 32.7 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 2.3 / 35
2 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 0.0 / 25
v1.0 released 7 years ago
- Stars 10.5 / 20
428 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
- 2
- Last 90 days
- 28
- Last 12 months
- 3 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #16 of 17 tools in Document Management by health , between Mayan EDMS (#15) and SeedDMS (#17) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker, Ruby |
| Latest release | v1.0 · 7 years ago |
| Stars | 428 |
| Open issues | 1 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | jonashellmann/everydocs-core ↗ |
EveryDocs vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with EveryDocs (Document Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paperless-ngx | 99 | 47k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Papra | 95 | 5.6k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Papermerge | 79 | 550 | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| Docspell | 67 | 2.3k | GPL-3.0 | 3 days ago |
| Mayan EDMS | 35 | 682 | GPL-2.0 | 1 month ago |
| EveryDocs (this tool) | 33 | 428 | GPL-3.0 | 3 months ago |
EveryDocs: common questions
What does EveryDocs replace?
Repoly lists EveryDocs as an open-source alternative to Paperless Cloud. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where EveryDocs stands against the others.
Is EveryDocs still maintained?
EveryDocs had 2 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 3 months ago; the latest tagged release, v1.0, is from 7 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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