Flare
Flare is an open-source, self-hosted app in the File Sharing category, licensed MIT and written mainly in TypeScript. It ships a Docker image. It has 139 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- File Sharing
- TypeScript
- MIT
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 139
- Forks
- 7
- Open issues
- 0
- Commits, last 12 months
- 144
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v3.0.1Oct 25, 2026
- Created
- Feb 17, 2025
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 144 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases9 releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 144 |
| Latest release | v3.0.1 (Oct 25, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 9 |
| Releases, all time | 28 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Open pull requests | 0 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Feb 17, 2025 |
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About Flare
A nonbloated, modern, and highly configurable file/screenshot vault server with support for ShareX, Flameshot, and Spectacle. Offers OCR search and more.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/FlintSH/Flare.
Topics
- docker
- file-management
- file-sharing
- flameshot
- nextjs
- nextjs15
- react
- self-hosted
- server
- sharex
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Is Flare free and open source?
Yes. Flare 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 Flare with Docker?
Yes. Flare 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 Flare?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Flare include qBittorrent, transfer.sh and Transmission.
Is Flare actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Flare was on Oct 26, 2026 with 144 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v3.0.1, published Oct 25, 2026. It had 0 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.