Polaris
Polaris is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Music Streaming category, licensed MIT and written mainly in Rust. It ships a Docker image. It has 2,730 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 2,730
- Forks
- 127
- Open issues
- 24
- Commits, last 12 months
- 69
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- 0.16.1May 8, 2026
- Created
- Aug 14, 2016
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 69 commits in 12 months.
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 69 |
| Latest release | 0.16.1 (May 8, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 2 |
| Releases, all time | 31 |
| Open issues | 24 |
| Open pull requests | 0 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Aug 14, 2016 |
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About Polaris
Music browsing and streaming application optimized for large music collections, ease of use and high performance.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/agersant/polaris.
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Is Polaris free and open source?
Yes. Polaris 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 Polaris with Docker?
Yes. Polaris 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 Polaris?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Polaris include Navidrome Music Server, koel and Beets.
Is Polaris actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Polaris was on Oct 26, 2026 with 69 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 0.16.1, published May 8, 2026. It had 24 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.