Automatic Video library manager for TV Shows. It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows, and when they are posted it does its magic.
Medusa is an open-source media management project, with 2.0k GitHub stars and a health score of 38/100. It committed 24 times in the last twelve months across 4 of those months, and its status is slowing down. Licence: GPL-3.0. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.
| Status | Slowing down — Commits have thinned out over the last year. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-05-17 |
| Days since last commit | 92 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 0 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 24 |
| Months with activity | 4 of 12 |
| Last release | 2025-11-12 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Category | Media Management |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
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Medusa is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.
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Slowing down. Medusa recorded 24 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 4 of those months and 0 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-05-17. Last release: 2025-11-12. Commits have thinned out over the last year.
Medusa is published under GPL-3.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
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