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akauntingvsTube Archivist

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

akauntingTube Archivist
Score67/10072/100
Rank in category#1 of 11 in Accounting#7 of 118 in Media Server
GitHub stars10 2518 552
Stars, last 30 days+113+83
Stable releases, 12 months86
Latest release3.3.0 · 27 Oct 2026v0.6.0 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseOtherGPL-3.0
Main languagePHPPython

Which one should you pick?

Tube Archivist scores 72/100 against 67/100 for akaunting, so it is the safer default.

akaunting ships more often: 8 stable releases in the past year, against 6 for Tube Archivist.

If you want the quickest setup, akaunting is easier to run; Tube Archivist needs more configuration.

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