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bookorbitvsDeta Surf

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

bookorbitDeta Surf
Score74/10059/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Book Management#21 of 81 in Notes & Editors
GitHub stars5 9003 613
Stars, last 30 days+1 222+0
Stable releases, 12 months230
Latest releasev3.6.0 · 27 Oct 2026—
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

bookorbit scores 74/100 against 59/100 for Deta Surf, so it is the safer default.

bookorbit ships more often: 23 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Deta Surf.

bookorbit is growing faster right now (+1 222 stars in 30 days).

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