Koillection
Koillection is a service allowing users to manage any kind of collections.
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Still maintained? Yes: 46 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 1.8.5 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Miscellaneous: ChatGPT alternatives, DeepL alternatives.
At a glance
Koillection quick facts
- Health score
- 93/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 1,340
- Last commit
- 2 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 1.8.5, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Koillection is a self-hosted collection manager created to keep track of physical (mostly) collections of any kind like books, DVDs, stamps, games... Koillection is meant to be used for any kind of collections and doesn't come with pre-built metadata download. But you can tailor your own HTML scraper, or you can add your own metadata freely."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Koillection scores 93/100, #20 of 77 in Miscellaneous: 46 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (1.8.5, 3 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 1,340 stars add 12.5 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 7.5 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
46 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
1.8.5 released 3 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 12.5 / 20
1.3k 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
- 46
- Last 90 days
- 196
- Last 12 months
- 2 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #20 of 77 tools in Miscellaneous by health , between IT-Tools by sharevb (#19) and Transmute (#21) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Docker, PHP |
| Latest release | 1.8.5 · 3 days ago |
| Stars | 1,340 |
| Open issues | 124 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | benjaminjonard/koillection ↗ |
Koillection vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Koillection (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 |
| Koillection (this tool) | 93 | 1.3k | MIT | 2 days ago |
| Usertour | 93 | 2.3k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Anchr | 45 | 395 | GPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
Koillection: common questions
Is Koillection still maintained?
Koillection had 46 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 days ago; the latest tagged release, 1.8.5, is from 3 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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