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LosslessCut vs home-gallery
LosslessCut has 45,737 GitHub stars, 2,307 forks, 300 open issues and last shipped 3 days ago. home-gallery has 1,211 stars, 108 forks, 54 open issues and last shipped 7 days ago. LosslessCut leads on adoption by 3,677% (45,737 vs 1,211 stars). LosslessCut is written in TypeScript under GPL-2.0; home-gallery is written in JavaScript under MIT. LosslessCut has attracted 5% as many forks as stars, home-gallery 9%. LosslessCut 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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| LosslessCut | home-gallery | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 46K | ★ 1.2K |
| License | GPL-2.0 | MIT |
| Written in | TypeScript | JavaScript |
| Last push | 2026-11-03 | 2026-10-30 |
| Forks | ⑂ 2.3K | ⑂ 108 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick LosslessCut if
- You weight community size — 46K stars and counting
- You want the GPL-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick home-gallery if
- You want the home-gallery feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches JavaScript
- You evaluated both and home-gallery fits your workflow better
About LosslessCut
LosslessCut The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing Thanks to my supporters and everyone who purchased LosslessCut! LosslessCut aims to be the ultimate cross platform FFmpeg GUI for extremely fast and lossless operations on video, audio, subtitle and other related media files. The main feature is lossless trimming and cutting of video and audio files, which is great for saving space by rough cutting your large video files taken from a video camera, GoPro, drone, etc. It lets you quickly extract the good parts from your videos and discard many gigabytes of data without doing a slow re encode and…
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About home-gallery
HomeGallery Home Gallery.org is a self hosted open source web gallery to browse personal photos and videos featuring tagging, mobile friendly, and AI powered image and face discovery. Try the demo gallery or enjoy the food images! Note: This software is a private pet/spare time project without any warranty. Ask questions on gitter.im or Discord. Do you like HomeGallery? Does it solve your media problem? Would you like to help? Please read the CONTRIBUTING guidelines and support this project through any recurring financial support to my patreon.com/xemle or one time support to my paypal.me/xemle account. Thank…
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Frequently asked questions
Is LosslessCut or home-gallery more popular?
LosslessCut has 45,737 GitHub stars and home-gallery has 1,211. LosslessCut has the larger community by that measure.
Are LosslessCut and home-gallery free?
Both are open source. LosslessCut is licensed under GPL-2.0 and home-gallery under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between LosslessCut and home-gallery?
LosslessCut is written in TypeScript and home-gallery in JavaScript. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, LosslessCut or home-gallery?
Choose LosslessCut if you want the larger community (45,737 stars) or its GPL-2.0 licence terms. Choose home-gallery if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.