Updated August 2026
    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    3.0k

    FileGator: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    FileGator is a powerful multi-user file manager with a single page front-end.

    TL;DR • FileGator • as of August 2026

    FileGator is an open-source file transfer project, with 3.0k GitHub stars and a health score of 66/100. It committed 41 times in the last twelve months across 6 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: MIT. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.

    3.0k
    GitHub stars
    66/100
    Health score
    41
    Commits (12 mo)
    6/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days.
    Last commit 2026-08-15
    Days since last commit 2
    Commits, last 3 months 17
    Commits, last 12 months 41
    Months with activity 6 of 12
    Last release 2026-08-13
    Archived No
    Licence MIT
    Category File Transfer

    Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.

    What the licence lets you do

    MIT

    Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.

    This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.

    What FileGator means for your idea

    Crowded · 74/100
    File Transfer category →

    FileGator is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.

    Assume every prospect can find a free version in five minutes. Your wedge has to be something open source structurally cannot deliver: compliance, support SLAs, managed hosting at scale, or a workflow the maintainers refuse to build.

    FileGator: common questions

    Is FileGator still maintained in 2026?

    Actively maintained. FileGator recorded 41 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 6 of those months and 17 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-15. Last release: 2026-08-13. Committed within the last 45 days.

    Can I use FileGator commercially?

    FileGator is published under MIT. Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.

    How crowded is the File Transfer category?

    58 open-source implementations, 28 of them actively maintained, led by copyparty at 46k stars. Saturation score 74/100 — Crowded. Free, maintained alternatives already dominate this category.

    FileGator alternatives in File Transfer

    copyparty

    File Transfer

    46k

    Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, deduplication, WebDAV, FTP, zeroconf, media indexer, video thumbnails, audio transcoding, and write-only folders, in a single file with no mand

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    MIT

    SeaweedFS

    File Transfer

    34k

    SeaweedFS is an open source distributed file system supporting WebDAV, S3 API, FUSE mount, HDFS, etc, optimized for lots of small files, and easy to add capacity.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    Apache-2.0

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