Docspell

Auto-tagging document organizer and archive.

Active Last commit · 1 release in the past year · 81 commits in the past 12 months

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At a glance

GitHub stars
2.3k
Last commit
2026-10-27
Latest release
nightly
2026-10-27
Commits (12 mo)
81
Releases (12 mo)
1
License
GPL-3.0
Language / platform
Scala, Java, Docker

Maintenance health: Active

Last commit within the past 90 days. Last commit · 1 release in the past year · 81 commits in the past 12 months.

How we label health: Active = last commit within 90 days, Maintained = within 12 months, Slowing = 12–24 months, Stale = over 24 months, Archived = read-only repository, Unknown = no data. Activity data from awesome-selfhosted-data (refreshed daily from GitHub); release counts from the GitHub releases feed (includes pre-releases).

Run Docspell yourself

  • RAM: ~2 GB server (1 vCPU)
  • Docker: yes
  • Storage: plan disk for your data (media/files grow fast); attach a volume or use object storage.
  • OCR jobs are CPU-intensive

Estimated monthly server cost

ProviderPlan size~ USD / month
Vultr2 GB$10Deploy →
DigitalOcean2 GB$12Deploy →
Akamai (Linode)2 GB$12Deploy →

Rough estimate from the app's stack and category, not a benchmark. Several light apps can share one server. Some hosting links may be affiliate links. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you; it never affects which apps we list.

Prefer managed hosting? Check PikaPods or Elestio.

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