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LosslessCut vs libvips
LosslessCut has 45,623 GitHub stars, 2,301 forks, 300 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. libvips has 11,779 stars, 802 forks, 78 open issues and last shipped yesterday. LosslessCut leads on adoption by 287% (45,623 vs 11,779 stars). LosslessCut is written in TypeScript under GPL-2.0; libvips is written in C under LGPL-2.1. LosslessCut has attracted 5% as many forks as stars, libvips 7%. libvips 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 | libvips | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 46K | ★ 12K |
| License | GPL-2.0 | LGPL-2.1 |
| Written in | TypeScript | C |
| Last push | 2026-11-01 | 2026-11-02 |
| Forks | ⑂ 2.3K | ⑂ 802 |
| 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 libvips if
- You want the libvips feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the LGPL-2.1 license terms
- Your stack matches C
- You evaluated both and libvips 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 libvips
libvips: an image processing library Introduction libvips is a demand driven, horizontally threaded image processing library. Compared to similar libraries, libvips runs quickly and uses little memory. libvips is licensed under the LGPL 2.1 or later. It has around 300 operations covering arithmetic, histograms, convolution, morphological operations, frequency filtering, colour, resampling, statistics and others. It supports a large range of numeric types, from 8 bit int to 128 bit complex. Images can have any number of bands. It supports a good range of image formats, including JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG XL, TIFF…
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Frequently asked questions
Is LosslessCut or libvips more popular?
LosslessCut has 45,623 GitHub stars and libvips has 11,779. LosslessCut has the larger community by that measure.
Are LosslessCut and libvips free?
Both are open source. LosslessCut is licensed under GPL-2.0 and libvips under LGPL-2.1. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between LosslessCut and libvips?
LosslessCut is written in TypeScript and libvips in C. 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 libvips?
Choose LosslessCut if you want the larger community (45,623 stars) or its GPL-2.0 licence terms. Choose libvips if its feature set, stack or LGPL-2.1 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.