SIPCAPTURE Homer
Troubleshooting and monitoring VoIP calls.
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Still maintained? Yes: 330 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 11.0.367 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Communication - SIP: Twilio alternatives, Dialpad alternatives, Google Voice alternatives.
At a glance
SIPCAPTURE Homer quick facts
- Health score
- 93/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 2,026
- Last commit
- 3 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 11.0.367, Oct 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
Top alternatives to SIPCAPTURE Homer
In its own words
The project's README opens: "homer is the all-in-one HEP capture and API server monolith powering Homer 11.x data lake."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
SIPCAPTURE Homer scores 93/100, #2 of 13 in Communication - SIP: 330 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (11.0.367, 10 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 2,026 stars add 13.2 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 6.8 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
330 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
11.0.367 released 10 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 13.2 / 20
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
- 330
- Last 90 days
- 815
- Last 12 months
- 3 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #2 of 13 tools in Communication - SIP by health , between Routr (#1) and FreeSWITCH (#3) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Nodejs, Go, Docker |
| Latest release | 11.0.367 · 10 days ago |
| Stars | 2,026 |
| Open issues | 1 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | sipcapture/homer ↗ |
SIPCAPTURE Homer vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with SIPCAPTURE Homer (Communication - SIP), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Routr | 93 | 1.7k | MIT | today |
| SIPCAPTURE Homer (this tool) | 93 | 2k | AGPL-3.0 | 3 days ago |
| FreeSWITCH | 85 | 5.3k | MPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| Asterisk | 84 | 3.7k | GPL-2.0 | yesterday |
| Flexisip | 64 | 193 | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| SIP3 | 28 | 78 | Apache-2.0 | 4 days ago |
SIPCAPTURE Homer: common questions
Is SIPCAPTURE Homer still maintained?
SIPCAPTURE Homer had 330 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 3 days ago; the latest tagged release, 11.0.367, is from 10 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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