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LosslessCut vs imagor
LosslessCut has 46,045 GitHub stars, 2,330 forks, 300 open issues and last shipped yesterday. imagor has 4,059 stars, 180 forks, 2 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. LosslessCut leads on adoption by 1,034% (46,045 vs 4,059 stars). LosslessCut is written in TypeScript under GPL-2.0; imagor is written in Go under Apache-2.0. LosslessCut has attracted 5% as many forks as stars, imagor 4%. 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 | imagor | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 46K | ★ 4.1K |
| License | GPL-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | TypeScript | Go |
| Last push | 2026-11-14 | 2026-11-13 |
| Forks | ⑂ 2.3K | ⑂ 180 |
| 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 imagor if
- You want the imagor feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and imagor 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 imagor
imagor imagor is a fast, secure image processing server and Go library. imagor uses one of the most efficient image processing libraries, libvips with the Go binding vipsgen. It is typically 4 8x faster than using the quickest ImageMagick settings. imagor implements libvips streaming to facilitate parallel processing pipelines and achieve high network throughput. Benchmarks show imagor is one of the fastest image processing servers. imagor supports a wide range of image processing use cases, available as a HTTP server with first class Docker support. It adopts the thumbor URL syntax representing a high…
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Frequently asked questions
Is LosslessCut or imagor more popular?
LosslessCut has 46,045 GitHub stars and imagor has 4,059. LosslessCut has the larger community by that measure.
Are LosslessCut and imagor free?
Both are open source. LosslessCut is licensed under GPL-2.0 and imagor under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between LosslessCut and imagor?
LosslessCut is written in TypeScript and imagor 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 imagor?
Choose LosslessCut if you want the larger community (46,045 stars) or its GPL-2.0 licence terms. Choose imagor if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.