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app-distribution-servervsOpenship

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

app-distribution-serverOpenship
Score45/10067/100
Rank in category#11 of 20 in Application Management#1 of 10 in PaaS
GitHub stars16514 971
Stars, last 30 days—+101
Stable releases, 12 months011
Latest release—v0.9.5 · 24 Oct 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languagePythonTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Openship scores 67/100 against 45/100 for app-distribution-server, so it is the safer default.

Openship ships more often: 11 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for app-distribution-server.

If you want the quickest setup, app-distribution-server is easier to run; Openship needs more configuration.

Openship is growing faster right now (+101 stars in 30 days).

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