Best self-hosted archiving and digital preservation (dp)
Digital [archiving](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archival_science) and [preservation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_preservation) software.
We track 19 self-hosted archiving and digital preservation (dp) projects. The median health score in this category is 66, against 7 projects rated healthy or better and 1 showing little recent activity. The table below is ordered by health score, not popularity — the most starred project in a category is frequently not the best maintained one.
| # | Project | Health | Activity | Stars | Built with | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ArchiveBox Create HTML & screenshot archives of sites from your bookmarks, browsing history, RSS feeds, or other sources (alternati | Thriving · 94 | 29k | Python, Docker | 27 Sept 2026 | |
| 2 | Paperless-ngx Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents with an improved interface (fork of Paperless). | Thriving · 90 | 46k | Python, Docker | 20 Sept 2026 | |
| 3 | Papra Minimalist document storage, management and archiving platform designed to be simple to use and accessible to everyone. | Thriving · 83 | 5.5k | Docker | 1 Sept 2026 | |
| 4 | CKAN Make open data websites. | Healthy · 81 | 5.1k | Python | 26 Aug 2026 | |
| 5 | mail-archiver Web application for archiving, searching, and exporting emails from multiple accounts (IMAP, M365 or Import). Featuring | Healthy · 72 | 2.1k | Docker | 22 Sept 2026 | |
| 6 | Tube Archivist Organize, search, and enjoy your YouTube collection. Subscribe, download, and track viewed content with metadata indexin | Healthy · 70 | 8.5k | Docker | 25 Aug 2026 | |
| 7 | ArchivesSpace Archives information management application for managing and providing Web access to archives, manuscripts and digital o | Healthy · 68 | 439 | Ruby | 10 Jul 2026 | |
| 8 | Wallabag Wallabag, formerly Poche, is a web application allowing you to save articles to read them later with improved readabilit | Steady · 66 | 13k | PHP | 7 Oct 2025 | |
| 9 | Ganymede Twitch VOD and live stream archiving platform. Includes a rendered chat for each archive. | Steady · 66 | 1k | Docker | 22 Sept 2026 | |
| 10 | Collective Access - Providence Highly configurable Web-based framework for management, description, and discovery of digital and physical collections s | Steady · 64 | 385 | PHP | 16 Mar 2026 | |
| 11 | Bichon Email archiving server that syncs from IMAP accounts, indexes emails for full-text search, and provides a REST API. No e | Steady · 62 | 2k | Rust, Docker | 5 Sept 2026 | |
| 12 | Open Archiver Email archiving solution with full-text search and eDiscovery search features. | Steady · 57 | 2.4k | Docker | 24 Aug 2026 | |
| 13 | Omeka S Next-generation web publishing platform for institutions interested in connecting digital cultural heritage collections | Steady · 57 | 515 | Nodejs | 18 Jun 2026 | |
| 14 | Piler Feature-rich email archiving solution. | Slowing · 46 | 348 | C, Docker | 17 Jun 2026 | |
| 15 | Wayback A self-hosted toolkit for archiving webpages to the Internet Archive, archive.today, IPFS, and local file systems. | Slowing · 45 | 2.2k | Go | 5 Jul 2026 | |
| 16 | bitmagnet BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI, GraphQL API and Servarr stack | At risk · 34 | 4.4k | Go, Docker | 21 May 2026 | |
| 17 | Eonvelope Email archiving software that allows you to preserve your emails for an indefinite long period of time. | Unrated | — | K8S, Docker | 17 Aug 2026 | |
| 18 | Sosse Selenium based search engine and crawler with offline archiving. | Unrated | — | Python, Docker | — | |
| 19 | Readeck Save the precious readable content of web pages you like and want to keep forever. See it as a bookmark manager and a re | Unrated | — | Go, Docker | — |
Which one should you run?
If you want the safest bet on longevity, ArchiveBox is the best-maintained project in this category right now at 94/100. Paperless-ngx is the closest runner-up (90/100) — see the side-by-side comparison.
A health score measures whether a project is alive and shipping. It does not measure whether it has the feature you need. Use it to rule options out, then compare on features.