Transmute
File converter for images, video, audio, json, excel and more. Supports over 2,000 conversions!.
Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.
Commit activity more than 47% of tracked projects; popularity more than 40%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 1.4k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v2.0.0 · 30 Jun 2026 |
| Repo updated | 12 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | MIT |
| Built with | Docker |
Is Transmute actively maintained?
Development is ongoing. The repository recorded 238 commits over the same window, and the last three months alone account for 78 of them.
Activity is cooling: commits are down 51% against the previous quarter. One slow quarter is normal; two in a row is a signal.
The most recent tagged release, v2.0.0, is about 3 months old.
Transmute ranks #41 of 77 in Miscellaneous, placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What Transmute actually does
Transmute is a self-hosted file conversion utility designed to handle various formats across images, video, audio, JSON, and Excel documents. It provides a centralised interface to process media and data files directly on your own infrastructure. The software supports thousands of distinct conversion pathways.
Best fit: It suits homelab administrators who regularly need to batch-process different file formats without relying on public cloud conversion services.
Worth knowing: Depending on the underlying conversion libraries utilised, heavy video or audio transcoding tasks may place significant demand on your server CPU.
Deployment notes
You will typically run this as a Docker container, ensuring you mount persistent storage volumes for your input and output files.
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