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bookorbitvsOpenWA

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

bookorbitOpenWA
Score73/10077/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Book Management#2 of 19 in API Management
GitHub stars5 87216 334
Stars, last 30 days+1 242+328
Stable releases, 12 months233
Latest releasev3.6.0 · 27 Oct 2026v0.26.0 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

OpenWA scores 77/100 against 73/100 for bookorbit, so it is the safer default.

bookorbit ships more often: 23 stable releases in the past year, against 3 for OpenWA.

bookorbit is growing faster right now (+1 242 stars in 30 days).

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