LibreTime
LibreTime is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Music Streaming category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in PHP. It is a self-hosted alternative to Pocket Casts and ships a Docker image. It has 938 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 25, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 938
- Forks
- 250
- Open issues
- 138
- Commits, last 12 months
- 122
- Last commit
- Oct 25, 2026
- Latest release
- 4.5.0Jul 16, 2025
- Created
- Feb 19, 2017
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 25, 2026, 122 commits in 12 months.
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 25, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 122 |
| Latest release | 4.5.0 (Jul 16, 2025) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 0 |
| Releases, all time | 29 |
| Open issues | 138 |
| Open pull requests | 26 |
| Good first issues | 2 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Feb 19, 2017 |
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About LibreTime
Broadcast streaming radio on the web (fork of Airtime).
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/libretime/libretime.
Topics
- radio
- broadcasting
- airtime
- liquidsoap
- broadcast
- online-radio
- radio-station
- libretime
- audio
- audio-applications
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Is LibreTime free and open source?
Yes. LibreTime is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 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 LibreTime with Docker?
Yes. LibreTime 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 LibreTime?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to LibreTime include Navidrome Music Server, koel and Beets. LibreTime itself is a self-hosted alternative to Pocket Casts.
Is LibreTime actively maintained?
The most recent commit to LibreTime was on Oct 25, 2026 with 122 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 4.5.0, published Jul 16, 2025. It had 138 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.