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Media/Audio
Audiobookshelf
Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server with a proper mobile app.
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Activity score (0-100) — weighted from the 4 sub-scores below. Calculated automatically from the GitHub API, refreshed weekly.
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Community
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Development
100
Maintenance
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Risk
13,604 GitHub stars
Last commit: 1 days ago
Last release: 53 days ago
Open issues: 1096
License: GPL-3.0
Hardware
RAM minimum512 MB
RAM recommended1024 MB
CPU idle0.02 cores
CPU recommended1 core
ARM supportFull
Access & auth
Needs reverse proxy✓ Yes
OIDC support✓ Yes
LDAP support✗ No
Multi-user✓ Yes
Mobile appBoth
Operations
MaturityStable
Maintenance burdenLow
Setup difficultyEasy
Backup methodBuilt-in backup to zip (metadata + config)
Leaving the cloud
Migration difficultyEasy
Replaces
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Our notes
A genuinely lightweight Node app in practice — ignore the inflated "8GB" figures floating around some guides, which are measuring Docker Desktop/WSL2 overhead on Windows dev machines, not the app itself. Real bottleneck is usually storage space for your library, not RAM.