# MediaCMS

> MediaCMS is a free, open-source app you can self-host in the media servers category. Modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django/React, featuring a REST API. It has 5,135 GitHub stars, is released under the AGPL-3.0 license and ships a Docker image. It is a self-hosted alternative to YouTube and Loom.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/mediacms-io/mediacms |
| Website | https://mediacms.io/ |
| GitHub stars | 5,135 |
| Forks | 963 |
| Open issues | 135 |
| License | AGPL-3.0 |
| License type | Open source |
| Language | Python |
| Docker image | Yes |
| Platforms | Python, Docker |
| Categories | Media Servers, CMS |
| Commits, last 12 months | 82 |
| Last commit | Oct 6, 2026 |
| Latest release | v9.1.2 (Oct 5, 2026) |
| Created | Dec 15, 2020 |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained |
| Archived | No |

Topics: cms, django, react, video, media, audio, sharing, rest-api, mediacms, open-source

## Install

MediaCMS ships a Docker image; follow the README at https://github.com/mediacms-io/mediacms for the image name and environment variables.

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## MediaCMS replaces

- [YouTube alternatives](https://appsgit.com/alternatives/youtube): Google's video sharing and streaming platform.
- [Loom alternatives](https://appsgit.com/alternatives/loom): A screen recording tool for sharing quick video messages.

## Similar apps in Media Servers

- [Jellyfin](https://appsgit.com/apps/jellyfin): Media server for audio, video, books, comics, and photos with a sleek interface and robust transcoding capabilities. Almost all modern platforms have clients, including Roku, Android TV, iOS, and… (57,817 stars, GPL-2.0, C#, Docker)
- [SRS](https://appsgit.com/apps/srs): A simple, high efficiency and real-time video server, supports RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, HTTP-FLV and SRT. (29,319 stars, MIT, C++, Docker)
- [Invidious](https://appsgit.com/apps/invidious): Alternative YouTube front-end. (25,131 stars, AGPL-3.0, Crystal, Docker)
- [Kodi](https://appsgit.com/apps/kodi): Multimedia/Entertainment center, formerly known as XBMC. Runs on Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS and Windows. (21,286 stars, GPL-2.0, C++)
- [MediaMTX](https://appsgit.com/apps/mediamtx): Ready-to-use, zero-dependency real-time media server and proxy to publish, read, record, playback and route video/audio streams over SRT, WebRTC, RTSP, RTMP, HLS, MPEG-TS, RTP. (20,345 stars, MIT, Go, Docker)
- [PeerTube](https://appsgit.com/apps/peertube): Decentralized video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser. (15,345 stars, AGPL-3.0, TypeScript)
- [Stash](https://appsgit.com/apps/stash): A web-based library organizer and player for your adult media stash, with auto-tagging and metadata scraping support. (13,058 stars, AGPL-3.0, Go, Docker)
- [Owncast](https://appsgit.com/apps/owncast): Decentralized single-user live video streaming and chat server for running your own live streams similar in style to the large mainstream options. (11,575 stars, MIT, Go)

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