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app-distribution-servervsTipi

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

app-distribution-serverTipi
Score45/10071/100
Rank in category#11 of 20 in Application Management#3 of 22 in Home Server
GitHub stars1659 708
Stars, last 30 days—+32
Stable releases, 12 months05
Latest release—v4.11.0 · 21 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languagePythonTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Tipi scores 71/100 against 45/100 for app-distribution-server, so it is the safer default.

Tipi ships more often: 5 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for app-distribution-server.

Tipi is growing faster right now (+32 stars in 30 days).

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