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altchavsumbrelOS

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

altchaumbrelOS
Score63/10072/100
Rank in category#2 of 4 in Anti-Spam#2 of 22 in Home Server
GitHub stars2 85812 478
Stars, last 30 days+82+426
Stable releases, 12 months187
Latest releasev3.5.0 · 22 Oct 20262.0.0 · 22 Sept 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseMITOther
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

umbrelOS scores 72/100 against 63/100 for altcha, so it is the safer default.

altcha ships more often: 18 stable releases in the past year, against 7 for umbrelOS.

umbrelOS is growing faster right now (+426 stars in 30 days).

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