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bookorbitvsOpen Home Foundation Matter Server

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

bookorbitOpen Home Foundation Matter Server
Score74/10056/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Book Management#42 of 104 in Home Automation
GitHub stars5 901402
Stars, last 30 days+1 223+0
Stable releases, 12 months236
Latest releasev3.6.0 · 27 Oct 2026v1.5.5 · 24 Oct 2026
SetupEasyAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

bookorbit scores 74/100 against 56/100 for Open Home Foundation Matter Server, so it is the safer default.

bookorbit ships more often: 23 stable releases in the past year, against 6 for Open Home Foundation Matter Server.

If you want the quickest setup, bookorbit is easier to run; Open Home Foundation Matter Server needs more configuration.

bookorbit is growing faster right now (+1 223 stars in 30 days).

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