Piler
Feature-rich email archiving solution.
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Still maintained? Yes: 10 commits in the last 90 days, latest release piler-1.4.9 (Jun 2026).
Comparisons in Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP): Wayback Machine alternatives.
At a glance
Piler quick facts
- Health score
- 67/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 357
- Last commit
- 23 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- piler-1.4.9, Jun 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Piler scores 67/100, #16 of 19 in Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP): 10 commits in the last 90 days earn 11.7 of 35 points, the latest release (piler-1.4.9, 5 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 357 stars add 10.2 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 23.3 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 11.7 / 35
10 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
piler-1.4.9 released 5 months ago
- Stars 10.2 / 20
357 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
- 10
- Last 90 days
- 78
- Last 12 months
- 23 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #16 of 19 tools in Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP) by health , between Collective Access - Providence (#15) and Wayback (#17) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | C, Docker, deb |
| Latest release | piler-1.4.9 · 5 months ago |
| Stars | 357 |
| Open issues | 4 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | jsuto/piler ↗ |
Piler vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Piler (Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP)), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Papra | 95 | 5.6k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Bichon | 93 | 2.1k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| mail-archiver | 93 | 2.2k | GPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| Ganymede | 92 | 1k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Eonvelope | 84 | 10 | AGPL-3.0 | 10 days ago |
| Piler (this tool) | 67 | 357 | GPL-3.0 | 23 days ago |
Piler: common questions
Is Piler still maintained?
Piler had 10 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 23 days ago; the latest tagged release, piler-1.4.9, is from 5 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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