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AppwritevsOxMgr

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

AppwriteOxMgr
Score84/10049/100
Rank in category#1 of 15 in Backend as a Service#6 of 20 in Application Management
GitHub stars57 788294
Stars, last 30 days+336—
Stable releases, 12 months1712
Latest release1.9.10 · 24 Oct 2026v0.6.0 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseBSD-3-ClauseMIT
Main languageTypescriptRust

Which one should you pick?

Appwrite scores 84/100 against 49/100 for OxMgr, so it is the safer default.

Appwrite ships more often: 17 stable releases in the past year, against 12 for OxMgr.

If you want the quickest setup, OxMgr is easier to run; Appwrite needs more configuration.

Appwrite is growing faster right now (+336 stars in 30 days).

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