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streama vs Lychee
streama has 9,820 GitHub stars, 978 forks, 352 open issues and last shipped 1 months ago. Lychee has 4,295 stars, 377 forks, 37 open issues and last shipped yesterday. streama leads on adoption by 129% (9,820 vs 4,295 stars). streama is written in JavaScript under MIT; Lychee is written in PHP under MIT. streama has attracted 10% as many forks as stars, Lychee 9%. Lychee 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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Side by side
| streama | Lychee | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 9.8K | ★ 4.3K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | JavaScript | PHP |
| Last push | 2026-08-09 | 2026-09-17 |
| Forks | ⑂ 978 | ⑂ 377 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick streama if
- You weight community size — 9.8K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches JavaScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick Lychee if
- You want the Lychee feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches PHP
- You evaluated both and Lychee fits your workflow better
About streama
Streama is a self hosted streaming media server, written in JavaScript and released under the MIT licence, that gives someone with a large personal collection of films and shows a private Netflix style library they run and control themselves.
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About Lychee
Lychee is a free, open source photo management system written in PHP and released under the MIT license. It is a self hosted web application for managing photo galleries in the PHP, Vue.js, and TypeScript ecosystem described by the repository topics. People can run it on their own server or web space, then upload, manage, and share photos through a browser.
read the full Lychee overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is streama or Lychee more popular?
streama has 9,820 GitHub stars and Lychee has 4,295. streama has the larger community by that measure.
Are streama and Lychee free?
Both are open source. streama is licensed under MIT and Lychee under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between streama and Lychee?
streama is written in JavaScript and Lychee in PHP. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, streama or Lychee?
Choose streama if you want the larger community (9,820 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose Lychee if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.