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LosslessCut vs SimpleITK
LosslessCut has 44,745 GitHub stars, 2,244 forks, 300 open issues and last shipped yesterday. SimpleITK has 1,092 stars, 235 forks, 101 open issues and last shipped today. LosslessCut leads on adoption by 3,998% (44,745 vs 1,092 stars). LosslessCut is written in TypeScript under GPL-2.0; SimpleITK is written in C++ under Apache-2.0. LosslessCut has attracted 5% as many forks as stars, SimpleITK 22%. SimpleITK 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 | SimpleITK | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 45K | ★ 1.1K |
| License | GPL-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | TypeScript | C++ |
| Last push | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-20 |
| Forks | ⑂ 2.2K | ⑂ 235 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick LosslessCut if
- You weight community size — 45K 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 SimpleITK if
- You want the SimpleITK feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches C++
- You evaluated both and SimpleITK 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 SimpleITK
SimpleITK ========= SimpleITK is an image analysis toolkit with a large number of components supporting general filtering operations, image segmentation and registration. It is built on top of the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit ITK with the intent of providing a simplified interface to ITK. SimpleITK itself is written in C++ but is available for a large number of programming languages. Currently, these include: Python R Java C Lua TCL Ruby Wrapping of the C++ code is accomplished through SWIG, in principle, any language wrapped by SWIG should be applicable to SimpleITK. Unlike ITK's support of n…
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Frequently asked questions
Is LosslessCut or SimpleITK more popular?
LosslessCut has 44,745 GitHub stars and SimpleITK has 1,092. LosslessCut has the larger community by that measure.
Are LosslessCut and SimpleITK free?
Both are open source. LosslessCut is licensed under GPL-2.0 and SimpleITK under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between LosslessCut and SimpleITK?
LosslessCut is written in TypeScript and SimpleITK 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 SimpleITK?
Choose LosslessCut if you want the larger community (44,745 stars) or its GPL-2.0 licence terms. Choose SimpleITK if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.