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bookorbitvsOpenship

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

bookorbitOpenship
Score74/10067/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Book Management#1 of 10 in PaaS
GitHub stars5 90114 978
Stars, last 30 days+1 223+108
Stable releases, 12 months2311
Latest releasev3.6.0 · 27 Oct 2026v0.9.5 · 24 Oct 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

bookorbit scores 74/100 against 67/100 for Openship, so it is the safer default.

bookorbit ships more often: 23 stable releases in the past year, against 11 for Openship.

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

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

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