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bookorbitvsRSS Guard

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

bookorbitRSS Guard
Score73/10064/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Book Management#6 of 85 in Feed Reader
GitHub stars5 8762 817
Stars, last 30 days+1 246+56
Stable releases, 12 months2315
Latest releasev3.6.0 · 27 Oct 20265.2.5 · 20 Aug 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptC++

Which one should you pick?

bookorbit scores 73/100 against 64/100 for RSS Guard, so it is the safer default.

bookorbit ships more often: 23 stable releases in the past year, against 15 for RSS Guard.

bookorbit is growing faster right now (+1 246 stars in 30 days).

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