selfhost.directory

The index of self-hostable projects — ranked, categorized and served with live updates.
Own your data and stop giving it to big tech.

AFFiNE Community Editionvssearcharr

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

AFFiNE Community Editionsearcharr
Score83/10049/100
Rank in category#2 of 42 in Knowledge Management#51 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars73 949304
Stars, last 30 days+1 003+0
Stable releases, 12 months41
Latest releasev0.27.4 · 17 Aug 2026v3.4.0 · 8 Apr 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherMIT
Main languageTypescriptPython

Which one should you pick?

AFFiNE Community Edition scores 83/100 against 49/100 for searcharr, so it is the safer default.

AFFiNE Community Edition ships more often: 4 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for searcharr.

AFFiNE Community Edition is growing faster right now (+1 003 stars in 30 days).

Swap a project

Keep AFFiNE Community Edition, compare it with
Keep searcharr, compare it with