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AFFiNE Community EditionvsRSS Guard

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

AFFiNE Community EditionRSS Guard
Score83/10064/100
Rank in category#2 of 42 in Knowledge Management#6 of 85 in Feed Reader
GitHub stars73 9322 817
Stars, last 30 days+1 018+56
Stable releases, 12 months415
Latest releasev0.27.4 · 17 Aug 20265.2.5 · 20 Aug 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseOtherGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptC++

Which one should you pick?

AFFiNE Community Edition scores 83/100 against 64/100 for RSS Guard, so it is the safer default.

RSS Guard ships more often: 15 stable releases in the past year, against 4 for AFFiNE Community Edition.

If you want the quickest setup, RSS Guard is easier to run; AFFiNE Community Edition needs more configuration.

AFFiNE Community Edition is growing faster right now (+1 018 stars in 30 days).

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