Updated August 2026
    Dormant
    5.3k

    Pinchflat: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    Download YouTube content built using yt-dlp.

    TL;DR • Pinchflat • as of August 2026

    Pinchflat is an open-source media management project, with 5.3k GitHub stars and a health score of 21/100. It committed 7 times in the last twelve months across 2 of those months, and its status is dormant. Licence: AGPL-3.0. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.

    5.3k
    GitHub stars
    21/100
    Health score
    7
    Commits (12 mo)
    2/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Dormant — No meaningful commits for months.
    Last commit 2025-12-16
    Days since last commit 244
    Commits, last 3 months 0
    Commits, last 12 months 7
    Months with activity 2 of 12
    Last release 2025-09-26
    Archived No
    Licence AGPL-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.

    What the licence lets you do

    AGPL-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.

    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 Pinchflat means for your idea

    Contested · 48/100
    Media Management category →

    Pinchflat 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.

    Winnable, but differentiation is not optional. Pick one underserved segment and be visibly better for it rather than competing feature-for-feature with a free tool.

    Pinchflat: common questions

    Is Pinchflat still maintained in 2026?

    Dormant. Pinchflat recorded 7 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 2 of those months and 0 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2025-12-16. Last release: 2025-09-26. No meaningful commits for months.

    Can I use Pinchflat commercially?

    Pinchflat is published under AGPL-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.

    How crowded is the Media Management category?

    26 open-source implementations, 13 of them actively maintained, led by Sonarr at 15k stars. Saturation score 48/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.

    Pinchflat alternatives in Media Management

    Sonarr

    Media Management

    15k

    Automatic TV Shows downloader and manager for Usenet and BitTorrent. It can grab, sort and rename new episodes and automatically upgrade the quality of files already downloaded when a better quality f

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    GPL-3.0

    MeTube

    Media Management

    14k

    Web GUI for youtube-dl, with playlist support. Allows downloading videos from dozens of websites.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    AGPL-3.0

    Radarr

    Media Management

    14k

    Automatically download movies via Usenet and BitTorrent (fork of Sonarr).

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    GPL-3.0

    Seerr

    Media Management

    12k

    Manage requests for your media library, supports Plex, Jellyfin and Emby media servers (fork of Overseerr).

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    MIT

    Ombi

    Media Management

    4.1k

    Content request system for Plex/Emby, connects to SickRage, CouchPotato, Sonarr, with a growing feature set.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    GPL-2.0

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