Updated August 2026
    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    1.6k

    HortusFox: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    Collaborative plant management and tracking system for plant enthusiasts.

    TL;DR • HortusFox • as of August 2026

    HortusFox is an open-source miscellaneous project, with 1.6k GitHub stars and a health score of 69/100. It committed 186 times in the last twelve months across 10 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.

    1.6k
    GitHub stars
    69/100
    Health score
    186
    Commits (12 mo)
    10/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days.
    Last commit 2026-07-31
    Days since last commit 17
    Commits, last 3 months 52
    Commits, last 12 months 186
    Months with activity 10 of 12
    Last release 2026-07-31
    Archived No
    Licence MIT
    Category Miscellaneous

    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 HortusFox means for your idea

    Crowded · 81/100
    Miscellaneous category →

    HortusFox 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.

    HortusFox: common questions

    Is HortusFox still maintained in 2026?

    Actively maintained. HortusFox recorded 186 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 10 of those months and 52 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-07-31. Last release: 2026-07-31. Committed within the last 45 days.

    Can I use HortusFox commercially?

    HortusFox 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 Miscellaneous category?

    76 open-source implementations, 40 of them actively maintained, led by revealjs at 72k stars. Saturation score 81/100 — Crowded. Free, maintained alternatives already dominate this category.

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