# perkeep/perkeep

Perkeep (née Camlistore) is your personal storage system for life: a way of storing, syncing, sharing, modelling and backing up content.

Repository: https://github.com/perkeep/perkeep
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/perkeep
Homepage: https://perkeep.org/
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-02-01T21:28:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 58/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 65, release rhythm 24, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5721, "days_push": 213, "days_rel": 295, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7229, forks 487 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:57.623703+00:00)

## What it is
Perkeep (formerly Camlistore) is a personal storage system for storing, syncing, sharing, modeling, and backing up your data for life. It combines open formats, protocols, and Go software with a server, web UI, command-line tools, and FUSE filesystem access.

## Use cases
- back up my personal files and photos for long-term archival
- self-host my own storage instead of relying on cloud providers
- sync content across my phone, browser, and computers
- search across all my stored files and objects
- keep my data private and under my own control for decades
- mount my personal archive as a filesystem

## When to choose
- you want a self-hosted, privacy-first personal archive with content-addressable storage
- you need long-term preservation of heterogeneous data (files, tweets, large videos)
- you're technical and want open formats and protocols you can inspect

## When to avoid
- you need a polished turnkey product for non-technical users
- you want a simple file-sync tool like Dropbox or Syncthing without a data-modeling layer
- you need enterprise-grade multi-user storage

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: object-storage, backup, search-engine, file-system, self-hosted, http-server, cli, cryptography
- domain: files, self-hosted, privacy, developer-tools
- platform: windows, go, self-hosted, cross-platform, cli
- tags: personal-storage, content-addressable-storage, data-archival, sync, fuse-filesystem, camlistore, digital-preservation, backup, search, linux, macos, web-server

## Member repositories
- perkeep/perkeep (main) score 58

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:57.623703+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:39:47.441381+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/perkeep/perkeep (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:57.623703+00:00, sha 89712a85b078)
  - homepage: https://perkeep.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:34:37.560110+00:00, sha cf4d77642e34)
  - site_page: https://perkeep.org/doc (fetched 2026-08-29T08:34:37.562740+00:00, sha 2d7bcf78d58c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.