Puter
Web-based operating system designed to be feature-rich, exceptionally fast, and highly extensible.
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Still maintained? Yes: 1,062 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 26.10.1 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in File Transfer & Synchronization: Dropbox alternatives, Google Drive alternatives, AWS S3 alternatives.
At a glance
Puter quick facts
- Health score
- 99/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 44,021
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 26.10.1, Oct 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Puter scores 99/100, #2 of 20 in File Transfer & Synchronization: 1,062 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (26.10.1, 5 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 44,021 stars add 18.6 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 1.4 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
1062 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
26.10.1 released 5 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 18.6 / 20
44k 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
- 1062
- Last 90 days
- 2,809
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #2 of 20 tools in File Transfer & Synchronization by health , between Syncthing (#1) and ownCloud (#3) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Nodejs, Docker |
| Latest release | 26.10.1 · 5 days ago |
| Stars | 44,021 |
| Open issues | 20 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | heyputer/puter ↗ |
Puter vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Puter (File Transfer & Synchronization), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Syncthing | 100 | 90k | MPL-2.0 | yesterday |
| Puter (this tool) | 99 | 44k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Pangolin | 97 | 23k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Termix | 97 | 16k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Firezone | 96 | 9.1k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Engity's Bifröst | 88 | 86 | Apache-2.0 | today |
Puter: common questions
Is Puter still maintained?
Puter had 1,062 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, 26.10.1, is from 5 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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