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Gokapi vs Pingvin Share X: catalog facts
Gokapi	Pingvin Share X
Free Free and open source to host yourself.	Free Free and open source under the BSD-2-Clause licence.
Web, Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Uploads restricted to the administrator, so it cannot be abused as a public host Optional AWS S3 storage backend	Reverse shares for receiving files from others OIDC and LDAP sign-in
Only the administrator can upload, so it does not suit collecting files from others You need to run and maintain your own server	A fork maintained by a single developer Needs Docker or Node.js to host
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: BSD-2-Clause
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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