Picsur
Simple imaging hosting platform that allows you to easily host, edit, and share images.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push Oct 2025.
Comparisons in File Transfer - Single-click & Drag-n-drop Upload: WeTransfer alternatives.
At a glance
Picsur quick facts
- Health score
- 32/100 STALE
- Stars
- 1,246
- Last commit
- 1 years ago (Oct 2025)
- Latest release
- 0.5.6, Nov 2024
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "I couldn't really find any open source project that allowed you to easily host images. So I decided to create one."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Picsur scores 32/100, #29 of 33 in File Transfer - Single-click & Drag-n-drop Upload: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (0.5.6, 2 years ago) earns 0.0 of 25, 1,246 stars add 12.4 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 0.0 / 25
0.5.6 released 2 years ago
- Stars 12.4 / 20
1.2k 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
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 0
- Last 12 months
- 1 years ago
- Last push
Ranked #29 of 33 tools in File Transfer - Single-click & Drag-n-drop Upload by health , between transfer.sh (#28) and Jirafeau (#30) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | 0.5.6 · 2 years ago |
| Stars | 1,246 |
| Open issues | 35 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | CaramelFur/Picsur ↗ |
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Picsur: common questions
Is Picsur still maintained?
Picsur had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 1 years ago; the latest tagged release, 0.5.6, is from 2 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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