Reaparr vs tubesync

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

Reaparr and tubesync are closely matched on maintenance health (75 vs 78). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
Reaparrtubesync
Health score 75/100 78/100
Commits (11 mo) 2168 571
Commits (last 3 mo) 539 211
Stars 699 2.8k
Latest release 21 Sept 2026 4 Sept 2026
Licence GPL-3.0 AGPL-3.0
Built with Docker Docker, Python
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

Reaparr

Cross-platform Plex media downloader that seamlessly adds media from other Plex servers to your own.

75/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 36/40
Releases 25/25
Community 6/20
Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 90% of tracked projects; popularity more than 29%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 88 commits 2025-11: 150 commits 2025-12: 163 commits 2026-01: 77 commits 2026-02: 244 commits 2026-03: 295 commits 2026-04: 315 commits 2026-05: 297 commits 2026-06: 52 commits 2026-07: 218 commits 2026-08: 269 commits

tubesync

Syncs YouTube channels and playlists to a locally hosted media server.

78/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 27/40
Releases 25/25
Community 11/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 67% of tracked projects; popularity more than 56%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 6 commits 2025-11: 70 commits 2025-12: 30 commits 2026-01: 31 commits 2026-02: 62 commits 2026-03: 64 commits 2026-04: 49 commits 2026-05: 48 commits 2026-06: 59 commits 2026-07: 13 commits 2026-08: 139 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.

See every option in this category: self-hosted media management.