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LosslessCut vs photofield
LosslessCut has 45,969 GitHub stars, 2,327 forks, 300 open issues and last shipped yesterday. photofield has 618 stars, 19 forks, 35 open issues and last shipped yesterday. LosslessCut leads on adoption by 7,338% (45,969 vs 618 stars). LosslessCut is written in TypeScript under GPL-2.0; photofield is written in Go under MIT. LosslessCut has attracted 5% as many forks as stars, photofield 3%. photofield 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 | photofield | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 46K | ★ 618 |
| License | GPL-2.0 | MIT |
| Written in | TypeScript | Go |
| Last push | 2026-11-12 | 2026-11-12 |
| Forks | ⑂ 2.3K | ⑂ 19 |
| 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 photofield if
- You want the photofield feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and photofield 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 photofield
Photofield A self hosted non invasive single binary photo gallery with a focus on speed and simplicity. Demo · Quick Start · Docs Table of Contents About Features Limitations Built With Getting Started Configuration Usage Maintenance Development Setup Contributing License Acknowledgements About Zoom to logo within a sample of 43k images from [open images dataset], i7 5820K 6 Core CPU, NVMe SSD Photofield is a photo viewer built to mainly push the limits of what is possible in terms of the number of photos visible at the same time and at the speed at which they are displayed. The goal is to be as fast or faster…
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Frequently asked questions
Is LosslessCut or photofield more popular?
LosslessCut has 45,969 GitHub stars and photofield has 618. LosslessCut has the larger community by that measure.
Are LosslessCut and photofield free?
Both are open source. LosslessCut is licensed under GPL-2.0 and photofield under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between LosslessCut and photofield?
LosslessCut is written in TypeScript and photofield 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 photofield?
Choose LosslessCut if you want the larger community (45,969 stars) or its GPL-2.0 licence terms. Choose photofield if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.