HortusFox
Collaborative plant management and tracking system for plant enthusiasts.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 61 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v6.4 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Miscellaneous: ChatGPT alternatives, DeepL alternatives.
At a glance
HortusFox quick facts
- Health score
- 93/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 1,692
- Last commit
- 3 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v6.4, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "HortusFox is a free, open-source, and self-hosted collaborative system to manage all your plants. It provides an extensive amount of features to assist you in keeping track, taking care, and journal all things about your plants. The system is designed using a per-location approach, which means that plants are always assigned to locations."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
HortusFox scores 93/100, #18 of 77 in Miscellaneous: 61 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v6.4, 8 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 1,692 stars add 12.9 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 7.1 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
61 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v6.4 released 8 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 12.9 / 20
1.7k 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
- 61
- Last 90 days
- 195
- Last 12 months
- 3 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #18 of 77 tools in Miscellaneous by health , between Domain Locker (#17) and IT-Tools by sharevb (#19) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | PHP, Docker |
| Latest release | v6.4 · 8 days ago |
| Stars | 1,692 |
| Open issues | 30 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | danielbrendel/hortusfox-web ↗ |
HortusFox vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with HortusFox (Miscellaneous), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| penpot | 99 | 62k | MPL-2.0 | today |
| Reactive Resume | 99 | 45k | MIT | today |
| Anubis | 98 | 24k | MIT | yesterday |
| Infisical Community Edition | 98 | 30k | MIT | today |
| ConvertX | 97 | 19k | AGPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| HortusFox (this tool) | 93 | 1.7k | MIT | 3 days ago |
HortusFox: common questions
Is HortusFox still maintained?
HortusFox had 61 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 3 days ago; the latest tagged release, v6.4, is from 8 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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