Music browsing and streaming application optimized for large music collections, ease of use and high performance.
Polaris is an open-source media streaming project, with 2.7k GitHub stars and a health score of 44/100. It committed 62 times in the last twelve months across 7 of those months, and its status is slowing down. Licence: MIT. 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 | 2026-05-08 |
| Days since last commit | 101 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 0 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 62 |
| Months with activity | 7 of 12 |
| Last release | 2026-05-08 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | MIT |
| Category | Media Streaming |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
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.
Polaris 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.
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.
Slowing down. Polaris recorded 62 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 7 of those months and 0 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-05-08. Last release: 2026-05-08. Commits have thinned out over the last year.
Polaris 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.
62 open-source implementations, 36 of them actively maintained, led by Jellyfin at 56k stars. Saturation score 77/100 — Crowded. Free, maintained alternatives already dominate this category.
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