Libredesk
Modern omnichannel customer support desk. Live chat, email, and more in a single binary.
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Still maintained? Yes: 820 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v2.9.1 (Oct 2026).
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At a glance
Libredesk quick facts
- Health score
- 94/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 3,100
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v2.9.1, Oct 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Open source, self-hosted customer support software for email, live chat, and WhatsApp. Distributed as a single binary."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Libredesk scores 94/100, #5 of 22 in Ticketing: 820 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v2.9.1, 2 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 3,100 stars add 14.0 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 6.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
820 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v2.9.1 released 2 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 14.0 / 20
3.1k 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
- 820
- Last 90 days
- 1,783
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #5 of 22 tools in Ticketing by health , between Frappe Helpdesk (#4) and Bugsink (#6) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker, Go, Nodejs |
| Latest release | v2.9.1 · 2 days ago |
| Stars | 3,100 |
| Open issues | 85 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | abhinavxd/libredesk ↗ |
Libredesk vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Libredesk (Ticketing), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forgejo | 95 | 5.7k | MIT | 2 days ago |
| FreeScout | 95 | 4.6k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Erxes | 94 | 4.1k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Frappe Helpdesk | 94 | 3.5k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Libredesk (this tool) | 94 | 3.1k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| OTOBO | 65 | 340 | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
Libredesk: common questions
Is Libredesk still maintained?
Libredesk had 820 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v2.9.1, is from 2 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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