Chibisafe
Chibisafe is an open-source, self-hosted app in the File Sharing category, licensed MIT and written mainly in TypeScript. It is a self-hosted alternative to Imgur and ships a Docker image. It has 2,800 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 22, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 2,800
- Forks
- 297
- Open issues
- 40
- Commits, last 12 months
- 35
- Last commit
- Oct 22, 2026
- Latest release
- v6.7.0Oct 22, 2026
- Created
- Jan 13, 2017
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 22, 2026, 35 commits in 12 months.
| Last commit | Oct 22, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 35 |
| Latest release | v6.7.0 (Oct 22, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 3 |
| Releases, all time | 72 |
| Open issues | 40 |
| Open pull requests | 3 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Jan 13, 2017 |
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About Chibisafe
File uploader service that aims to to be easy to use and set up. It accepts files, photos, documents, anything you imagine and gives you back a shareable link for you to send to others.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/chibisafe/chibisafe.
Topics
- pomf
- file-upload
- files
- upload
- node
- js
- file
- uploader
- chibisafe
- screenshots
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Is Chibisafe free and open source?
Yes. Chibisafe is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Chibisafe with Docker?
Yes. Chibisafe provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Chibisafe?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Chibisafe include qBittorrent, transfer.sh and Transmission. Chibisafe itself is a self-hosted alternative to Imgur.
Is Chibisafe actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Chibisafe was on Oct 22, 2026 with 35 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v6.7.0, published Oct 22, 2026. It had 40 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.