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AListvsVisionState

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

AListVisionState
Score83/10049/100
Rank in category#1 of 34 in File Management#73 of 104 in Home Automation
GitHub stars50 369172
Stars, last 30 days+146+41
Stable releases, 12 months1220
Latest releasev3.66.0 · 21 Oct 2026v0.11.0 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageGoPython

Which one should you pick?

AList scores 83/100 against 49/100 for VisionState, so it is the safer default.

VisionState ships more often: 20 stable releases in the past year, against 12 for AList.

AList is growing faster right now (+146 stars in 30 days).

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