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BookLorevsspacedrive

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

BookLorespacedrive
Score57/10070/100
Rank in category#6 of 7 in E-book Management#4 of 34 in File Management
GitHub stars1 32239 336
Stars, last 30 days+78+309
Stable releases, 12 months90
Latest releasev2.4.0 · 19 Sept 2026—
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageJavaRust

Which one should you pick?

spacedrive scores 70/100 against 57/100 for BookLore, so it is the safer default.

BookLore ships more often: 9 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for spacedrive.

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

spacedrive is growing faster right now (+309 stars in 30 days).

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