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Open source alternatives to Paperless Cloud

We track 6 open-source Paperless Cloud alternatives, of which 2 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 6 ship a Docker image. Paperless-ngx leads on health at 99/100 with 479 commits in the last 90 days; across all 6 projects you are choosing between AGPL-3.0, Apache-2.0, GPL-2.0 and 1 other licences.

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All 6 Paperless Cloud alternatives, ranked by health

  • Top pick · highest health

    Paperless-ngx

    99 GOOD

    Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents with an improved interface (fork of Paperless).

    ★ 45k · ⟳ today · v3.1.3 · GPL-3.0

    DockerPython
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Papra

    95 GOOD

    Minimalist document storage, management and archiving platform designed to be simple to use and accessible to everyone.

    ★ 5.4k · ⟳ yesterday · @papra/[email protected] · AGPL-3.0

    Docker
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Docspell

    68 SLOWING

    Auto-tagging document organizer and archive.

    ★ 2.3k · ⟳ 2 days ago · v0.43.0 · GPL-3.0

    DockerScalaJava
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Papermerge

    47 SLOWING

    Document management system focused on scanned documents (electronic archives). Features file browsing in similar way to dropbox/google drive. OCR, full text search, text overlay/selection.

    ★ 539 · ⟳ 9 days ago · 3.5.3 · Apache-2.0

    DockerK8S
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • EveryDocs

    36 STALE

    Simple Document Management System for private use with basic functionality to organize your documents digitally.

    ★ 411 · ⟳ 1 months ago · v1.0 · GPL-3.0

    DockerRuby
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Mayan EDMS

    31 STALE

    Electronic document management system for your documents with preview generation, OCR, and automatic categorization among other features.

    ★ 680 · ⟳ 24 days ago · GPL-2.0

    DockerK8S
    Website ↗ Source ↗

Paperless Cloud alternatives: common questions

What is the most maintained open source alternative to Paperless Cloud?

Paperless-ngx scores highest at 99/100, with 479 commits in the last 90 days, 45k GitHub stars and its latest release (v3.1.3) published 10 days ago. It is also the most active by raw commit count.

Which Paperless Cloud alternatives use a permissive licence?

1 of 6 are permissively licensed (MIT, Apache, BSD or similar): Papermerge (Apache-2.0). 5 use copyleft licences such as GPL or AGPL, which require you to publish changes if you distribute a modified version.

Which Paperless Cloud alternatives run in Docker?

6 of 6 publish a Docker image or Compose file: Paperless-ngx, Papra, Docspell, Papermerge, EveryDocs, Mayan EDMS. Docker support contributes 10 of the 100 available health points, because it is the clearest signal that self-hosting is a supported path rather than an afterthought.