Papra
Minimalist document storage, management and archiving platform designed to be simple to use and accessible to everyone.
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Still maintained? Yes: 112 commits in the last 90 days, latest release @papra/[email protected] (Oct 2026).
Also an alternative to Paperless Cloud.
At a glance
Papra quick facts
- Health score
- 95/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 5,608
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- @papra/[email protected], Oct 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
Top alternatives to Papra
Full rankings: Paperless Cloud alternatives
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Papra scores 95/100, #7 of 17 in Document Management: 112 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (@papra/[email protected], 8 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 5,608 stars add 15.0 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 5.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
112 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
@papra/[email protected] released 8 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 15.0 / 20
5.6k 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
- 112
- Last 90 days
- 706
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #7 of 17 tools in Document Management by health , between Gotenberg (#6) and OpenSign (#8) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | @papra/[email protected] · 8 days ago |
| Stars | 5,608 |
| Open issues | 166 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | papra-hq/papra ↗ |
Papra vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Papra (Document Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paperless-ngx | 99 | 47k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Papra (this tool) | 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 | 33 | 428 | GPL-3.0 | 3 months ago |
Papra: common questions
What does Papra replace?
Repoly lists Papra as an open-source alternative to Paperless Cloud. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Papra stands against the others.
Is Papra still maintained?
Papra had 112 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, @papra/[email protected], is from 8 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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