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Audacity vs google-images-download
Audacity has 18,523 GitHub stars, 2,666 forks, 1,781 open issues and last shipped yesterday. google-images-download has 8,686 stars, 2,083 forks, 66 open issues and last shipped 4 months ago. Audacity leads on adoption by 113% (18,523 vs 8,686 stars). Audacity is written in C++ under a custom or non-standard licence; google-images-download is written in Python under MIT. Audacity has attracted 14% as many forks as stars, google-images-download 24%. Audacity was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| Audacity | google-images-download | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 19K | ★ 8.7K |
| License | Custom / other | MIT |
| Written in | C++ | Python |
| Last push | 2026-09-21 | 2026-05-18 |
| Forks | ⑂ 2.7K | ⑂ 2.1K |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Audacity if
- You weight community size — 19K stars and counting
- You want the Custom / other license terms
- Your stack matches C++
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick google-images-download if
- You want the google-images-download feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Python
- You evaluated both and google-images-download fits your workflow better
About Audacity
Audacity is an open source audio editor and recorder written in C++ and distributed under free software terms. It lives in the open source desktop audio editing ecosystem, where it provides a multi track interface for recording and editing audio on Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. The README describes the project as an easy to use audio tool, and the repository contains both the Audacity 3.x line and the in progress Audacity 4 line.
read the full Audacity overview →
About google-images-download
google images download is a ready to run Python command line script that searches Google Images and downloads hundreds of images to a local hard drive, for anyone who needs a large image collection on disk without saving each picture by hand.
read the full google-images-download overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is Audacity or google-images-download more popular?
Audacity has 18,523 GitHub stars and google-images-download has 8,686. Audacity has the larger community by that measure.
Are Audacity and google-images-download free?
Both are open source. Audacity has no licence declared in this registry, and google-images-download is licensed under MIT. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between Audacity and google-images-download?
Audacity is written in C++ and google-images-download in Python. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Audacity or google-images-download?
Choose Audacity if you want the larger community (18,523 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose google-images-download if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.