Updated August 2026
    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    6.7k

    wger: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    Web-based personal workout, fitness and weight logger/tracker. It can also be used as a simple gym management utility and offers a full REST API as well.

    TL;DR • wger • as of August 2026

    wger is an open-source health and fitness project, with 6.7k GitHub stars and a health score of 100/100. It committed 1154 times in the last twelve months across 12 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: AGPL-3.0. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.

    6.7k
    GitHub stars
    100/100
    Health score
    1154
    Commits (12 mo)
    12/12
    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 249
    Commits, last 12 months 1154
    Months with activity 12 of 12
    Last release 2026-06-17
    Archived No
    Licence AGPL-3.0
    Category Health and Fitness

    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 wger means for your idea

    wger 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.

    The clearest opening in the dataset. Low open-source competition usually means either a genuinely underserved need or a market too small to attract volunteers — validate demand before assuming the former.

    wger: common questions

    Is wger still maintained in 2026?

    Actively maintained. wger recorded 1154 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 12 of those months and 249 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-15. Last release: 2026-06-17. Committed within the last 45 days.

    Can I use wger commercially?

    wger 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 Health and Fitness category?

    7 open-source implementations, 3 of them actively maintained, led by wger at 6.7k stars. Saturation score 29/100 — Open. Thin or poorly maintained open-source coverage.

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