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AListvsNova Server

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

AListNova Server
Score83/10046/100
Rank in category#1 of 34 in File Management#20 of 25 in Proxy
GitHub stars50 369354
Stars, last 30 days+154—
Stable releases, 12 months129
Latest releasev3.66.0 · 21 Oct 2026v1.92.2 · 24 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0Other
Main languageGoShell

Which one should you pick?

AList scores 83/100 against 46/100 for Nova Server, so it is the safer default.

AList ships more often: 12 stable releases in the past year, against 9 for Nova Server.

AList is growing faster right now (+154 stars in 30 days).

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