mosparo
The modern spam protection tool. It replaces other captcha methods with a simple and easy to use spam protection solution.
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Still maintained? Yes: 172 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v1.5.13 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Miscellaneous: ChatGPT alternatives, DeepL alternatives.
At a glance
mosparo quick facts
- Health score
- 80/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 313
- Last commit
- 4 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v1.5.13, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "The mo dern spa m p ro tection tool."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
mosparo scores 80/100, #42 of 77 in Miscellaneous: 172 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v1.5.13, 4 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 313 stars add 10.0 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
Health over time
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
172 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v1.5.13 released 4 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 10.0 / 20
313 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 172
- Last 90 days
- 387
- Last 12 months
- 4 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #42 of 77 tools in Miscellaneous by health , between DOCAT (#41) and Digiboard (#43) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | PHP |
| Latest release | v1.5.13 · 4 days ago |
| Stars | 313 |
| Open issues | 8 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | mosparo/mosparo ↗ |
mosparo vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with mosparo (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 |
| mosparo (this tool) | 80 | 313 | MIT | 4 days ago |
mosparo: common questions
Is mosparo still maintained?
mosparo had 172 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 4 days ago; the latest tagged release, v1.5.13, is from 4 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.