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LosslessCut vs photoview
LosslessCut has 45,623 GitHub stars, 2,301 forks, 300 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. photoview has 6,565 stars, 495 forks, 189 open issues and last shipped 5 days ago. LosslessCut leads on adoption by 595% (45,623 vs 6,565 stars). LosslessCut is written in TypeScript under GPL-2.0; photoview is written in Go under AGPL-3.0. LosslessCut has attracted 5% as many forks as stars, photoview 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 | photoview | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 46K | ★ 6.6K |
| License | GPL-2.0 | AGPL-3.0 |
| Written in | TypeScript | Go |
| Last push | 2026-11-01 | 2026-10-29 |
| Forks | ⑂ 2.3K | ⑂ 495 |
| 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 photoview if
- You want the photoview feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the AGPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and photoview 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 photoview
Photoview is a simple and user friendly photo gallery that's made for photographers and aims to provide an easy and fast way to navigate directories, with thousands of high resolution photos. You configure Photoview to look for photos and videos within a directory on your file system. The scanner automatically picks up your media and starts to generate thumbnail images to make browsing super fast. When your media has been scanned, they show up on the website, organised in the same way as on the filesystem. If you have questions regarding setup or development, feel free to join the Discord server ATTENTION to…
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Frequently asked questions
Is LosslessCut or photoview more popular?
LosslessCut has 45,623 GitHub stars and photoview has 6,565. LosslessCut has the larger community by that measure.
Are LosslessCut and photoview free?
Both are open source. LosslessCut is licensed under GPL-2.0 and photoview under AGPL-3.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between LosslessCut and photoview?
LosslessCut is written in TypeScript and photoview 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 photoview?
Choose LosslessCut if you want the larger community (45,623 stars) or its GPL-2.0 licence terms. Choose photoview if its feature set, stack or AGPL-3.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.