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AListvsxpipe-webtop

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

AListxpipe-webtop
Score83/10070/100
Rank in category#1 of 34 in File Management#5 of 23 in Remote Access
GitHub stars50 36914 632
Stars, last 30 days+154+76
Stable releases, 12 months1235
Latest releasev3.66.0 · 21 Oct 202624.9 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageGoJava

Which one should you pick?

AList scores 83/100 against 70/100 for xpipe-webtop, so it is the safer default.

xpipe-webtop ships more often: 35 stable releases in the past year, against 12 for AList.

If you want the quickest setup, xpipe-webtop is easier to run; AList needs more configuration.

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

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