Seafile
File hosting and sharing solution primary for teams and organizations.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 8 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v9.0.5 (Feb 2024).
Also an alternative to Dropbox, Google Drive and SharePoint.
At a glance
Seafile quick facts
- Health score
- 36/100 STALE
- Stars
- 15,404
- Last commit
- 14 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v9.0.5, Feb 2024
- Licence
- GPL-2.0, GPL-3.0, AGPL-3.0, Apache-2.0
Top alternatives to Seafile
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Seafile is an open source cloud storage system with privacy protection and teamwork features. Collections of files are called libraries. Each library can be synced separately. A library can also be encrypted with a user chosen password. Seafile also allows users to create groups and easily sharing files into groups."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Seafile scores 36/100, #14 of 20 in File Transfer & Synchronization: 8 commits in the last 90 days earn 9.3 of 35 points, the latest release (v9.0.5, 2.7 years ago) earns 0.0 of 25, 15,404 stars add 16.8 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 25.7 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 9.3 / 35
8 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 0.0 / 25
v9.0.5 released 2.7 years ago
- Stars 16.8 / 20
15k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 8
- Last 90 days
- 45
- Last 12 months
- 14 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #14 of 20 tools in File Transfer & Synchronization by health , between Peergos (#13) and FileRun (#15) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-2.0, GPL-3.0, AGPL-3.0, Apache-2.0 |
| Platforms | C |
| Latest release | v9.0.5 · 2.7 years ago |
| Stars | 15,404 |
| Open issues | 79 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | haiwen/seafile ↗ |
Seafile vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Seafile (File Transfer & Synchronization), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Syncthing | 100 | 90k | MPL-2.0 | yesterday |
| ownCloud | 96 | 8.8k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Nextcloud | 88 | 37k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Cozy Cloud | 82 | 1.3k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| bewCloud | 81 | 1.2k | AGPL-3.0 | 12 days ago |
| Seafile (this tool) | 36 | 15k | GPL-2.0 | 14 days ago |
Seafile: common questions
What does Seafile replace?
Repoly lists Seafile as an open-source alternative to Dropbox, Google Drive and SharePoint. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Seafile stands against the others.
Is Seafile still maintained?
Seafile had 8 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 14 days ago; the latest tagged release, v9.0.5, is from 2.7 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.