Invidious vs Tube Archivist

Both are self-hosted media streaming - video streaming projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Invidious scores 76 against Tube Archivist's 70, putting it slightly ahead. That measures project health, not feature fit — Tube Archivist may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
InvidiousTube Archivist
Health score 76/100 70/100
Commits (11 mo) 227 219
Commits (last 3 mo) 131 35
Stars 25k 8.5k
Latest release 5 Aug 2026 25 Aug 2026
Licence AGPL-3.0 GPL-3.0
Built with Docker, Crystal Docker
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

Invidious

Alternative YouTube front-end.

76/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 18/40
Releases 25/25
Community 18/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 46% of tracked projects; popularity more than 90%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 4 commits 2025-11: 3 commits 2025-12: 27 commits 2026-01: 8 commits 2026-02: 21 commits 2026-03: 4 commits 2026-04: 10 commits 2026-05: 19 commits 2026-06: 16 commits 2026-07: 14 commits 2026-08: 101 commits

Tube Archivist

Organize, search, and enjoy your YouTube collection. Subscribe, download, and track viewed content with metadata indexing and a user-friendly interface.

70/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 18/40
Releases 25/25
Community 15/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 45% of tracked projects; popularity more than 76%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 15 commits 2025-11: 25 commits 2025-12: 44 commits 2026-01: 37 commits 2026-02: 31 commits 2026-03: 15 commits 2026-04: 12 commits 2026-05: 5 commits 2026-06: 4 commits 2026-07: 9 commits 2026-08: 22 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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