Picsur
Simple imaging hosting platform that allows you to easily host, edit, and share images.
Little to no recent activity. Treat as unmaintained until proven otherwise.
Commit activity more than 2% of tracked projects; popularity more than 39%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 1.2k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | 0.5.6 · 1 Nov 2024 |
| Repo updated | 12 Oct 2025 |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Built with | Docker |
Is Picsur actively maintained?
Picsur logged 1 commit over the last 11 months, but none in the most recent quarter. Development has paused rather than stopped outright — worth watching before a production deployment.
The last tagged release, 0.5.6, is over 1 year old. If you deploy, expect to build from the default branch rather than a stable tag.
Picsur ranks #28 of 33 tracked file transfer - single-click & drag-n-drop upload projects. Several better-maintained options exist in the same category — they are listed below.
What Picsur actually does
Picsur is a self-hosted image management platform designed for uploading, editing, and sharing photographs and graphics. It provides a centralised web interface to handle media files through drag-and-drop actions and single-click sharing mechanisms. The application is distributed under the AGPL-3.0 licence and packaged for containerised environments.
Best fit: It suits individuals or small teams who want a dedicated, private endpoint for sharing images without relying on commercial third-party storage providers.
Worth knowing: Low community activity and infrequent recent releases suggest potential maintenance risks and slower patch cycles for security vulnerabilities.
Deployment notes
As a Docker-based application, you will typically need to configure persistent volumes for your image data and place the container behind a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.
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