Plik
Plik is an open-source, self-hosted app in the File Sharing category, licensed MIT and written mainly in Go. It ships a Docker image. It has 1,826 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 25, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 1,826
- Forks
- 200
- Open issues
- 22
- Commits, last 12 months
- 589
- Last commit
- Oct 25, 2026
- Latest release
- 1.4.3Oct 21, 2026
- Created
- Apr 19, 2015
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 25, 2026, 589 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases4 releases in 12 months
| Last commit | Oct 25, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 589 |
| Latest release | 1.4.3 (Oct 21, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 4 |
| Releases, all time | 38 |
| Open issues | 22 |
| Open pull requests | 14 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Apr 19, 2015 |
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About Plik
Scalable and friendly temporary file upload system.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/root-gg/plik.
Topics
- golang
- file-upload
- file-sharing
- docker
- self-hosted
- e2ee
- mcp
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Is Plik free and open source?
Yes. Plik 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 Plik with Docker?
Yes. Plik 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 Plik?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Plik include qBittorrent, transfer.sh and Transmission.
Is Plik actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Plik was on Oct 25, 2026 with 589 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 1.4.3, published Oct 21, 2026. It had 22 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.