RomM
ROM manager for organizing, enriching, and playing retro games, with support for 400+ platforms.
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Still maintained? Yes: 2,768 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 5.4.1 (Oct 2026).
At a glance
RomM quick facts
- Health score
- 97/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 14,163
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 5.4.1, Oct 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted ROM manager and player."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
RomM scores 97/100, #2 of 20 in Games - Administrative Utilities & Control Panels: 2,768 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (5.4.1, 8 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 14,163 stars add 16.6 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 3.4 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
2768 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
5.4.1 released 8 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 16.6 / 20
14k 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
- 2768
- Last 90 days
- 6,100
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #2 of 20 tools in Games - Administrative Utilities & Control Panels by health , between Sunshine (#1) and Pelican Panel (#3) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | 5.4.1 · 8 days ago |
| Stars | 14,163 |
| Open issues | 189 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | rommapp/romm ↗ |
RomM vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with RomM (Games - Administrative Utilities & Control Panels), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RomM (this tool) | 97 | 14k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| GameVault | 90 | 328 | CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 | yesterday |
| Drop | 87 | 761 | AGPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| LinuxGSM | 85 | 4.9k | MIT | 7 days ago |
| SourceBans++ | 80 | 377 | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | 4 days ago |
| Minus Games | 43 | 47 | MIT | 1 month ago |
RomM: common questions
Is RomM still maintained?
RomM had 2,768 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, 5.4.1, is from 8 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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