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bookorbitvsswarm-cronjob

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

bookorbitswarm-cronjob
Score73/10051/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Book Management#20 of 26 in Automation
GitHub stars5 886888
Stars, last 30 days+1 256—
Stable releases, 12 months233
Latest releasev3.6.0 · 27 Oct 2026v1.16.1 · 24 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageTypescriptGo

Which one should you pick?

bookorbit scores 73/100 against 51/100 for swarm-cronjob, so it is the safer default.

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

bookorbit is growing faster right now (+1 256 stars in 30 days).

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