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bookorbitvsOpenDesign

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

bookorbitOpenDesign
Score74/10083/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Book Management#1 of 7 in Design
GitHub stars5 899104 680
Stars, last 30 days+1 221+1 849
Stable releases, 12 months2310
Latest releasev3.6.0 · 27 Oct 2026open-design-v0.26.1 · 22 Oct 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

OpenDesign scores 83/100 against 74/100 for bookorbit, so it is the safer default.

bookorbit ships more often: 23 stable releases in the past year, against 10 for OpenDesign.

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

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