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LosslessCut vs imaginary
LosslessCut has 45,804 GitHub stars, 2,312 forks, 300 open issues and last shipped 6 days ago. imaginary has 6,091 stars, 502 forks, 135 open issues and last shipped 1.0 years ago. LosslessCut leads on adoption by 652% (45,804 vs 6,091 stars). LosslessCut is written in TypeScript under GPL-2.0; imaginary is written in Go under MIT. LosslessCut has attracted 5% as many forks as stars, imaginary 8%. 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 | imaginary | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 46K | ★ 6.1K |
| License | GPL-2.0 | MIT |
| Written in | TypeScript | Go |
| Last push | 2026-11-03 | 2025-11-08 |
| Forks | ⑂ 2.3K | ⑂ 502 |
| 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 imaginary if
- You want the imaginary feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and imaginary 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 imaginary
imaginary Fast HTTP microservice written in Go for high level image processing backed by bimg and libvips. imaginary can be used as private or public HTTP service for massive image processing with first class support for Docker & Fly.io. It's almost dependency free and only uses net/http native package without additional abstractions for better performance. Supports multiple image operations exposed as a simple HTTP API, with additional optional features such as API token authorization , URL signature protection , HTTP traffic throttle strategy and CORS support for web clients. imaginary can read images from…
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Frequently asked questions
Is LosslessCut or imaginary more popular?
LosslessCut has 45,804 GitHub stars and imaginary has 6,091. LosslessCut has the larger community by that measure.
Are LosslessCut and imaginary free?
Both are open source. LosslessCut is licensed under GPL-2.0 and imaginary under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between LosslessCut and imaginary?
LosslessCut is written in TypeScript and imaginary in Go. 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 imaginary?
Choose LosslessCut if you want the larger community (45,804 stars) or its GPL-2.0 licence terms. Choose imaginary if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.