motion.tools (Antragsgrün) vs pretalx

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

motion.tools (Antragsgrün) and pretalx are closely matched on maintenance health (70 vs 74). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
motion.tools (Antragsgrün)pretalx
Health score 70/100 74/100
Commits (11 mo) 656 1518
Commits (last 3 mo) 326 420
Stars 146 946
Latest release 23 Aug 2026 8 Jul 2026
Licence AGPL-3.0 Apache-2.0
Built with PHP, Docker Python
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

motion.tools (Antragsgrün)

Manage motions and amendments for (political) conventions.

70/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 28/40
Releases 25/25
Community 2/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 71% of tracked projects; popularity more than 9%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 20 commits 2025-11: 35 commits 2025-12: 15 commits 2026-01: 38 commits 2026-02: 26 commits 2026-03: 60 commits 2026-04: 47 commits 2026-05: 89 commits 2026-06: 109 commits 2026-07: 66 commits 2026-08: 151 commits

pretalx

Web-based event management, including running a Call for Papers, reviewing submissions, and scheduling talks. Exports and imports for various related tools.

74/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 34/40
Releases 21/25
Community 7/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 86% of tracked projects; popularity more than 34%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 173 commits 2025-11: 140 commits 2025-12: 152 commits 2026-01: 76 commits 2026-02: 188 commits 2026-03: 67 commits 2026-04: 92 commits 2026-05: 210 commits 2026-06: 48 commits 2026-07: 158 commits 2026-08: 214 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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