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AppsmithvsShellHub

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

AppsmithShellHub
Score80/10064/100
Rank in category#1 of 3 in Internal Tools#12 of 23 in Remote Access
GitHub stars41 1342 243
Stars, last 30 days+203+175
Stable releases, 12 months199
Latest releasev2.6.0 · 28 Oct 2026v0.28.0 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptGo

Which one should you pick?

Appsmith scores 80/100 against 64/100 for ShellHub, so it is the safer default.

Appsmith ships more often: 19 stable releases in the past year, against 9 for ShellHub.

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