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brightbean-studiovsUglyFeed

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

brightbean-studioUglyFeed
Score60/10044/100
Rank in category#3 of 18 in Social Media Management#52 of 85 in Feed Reader
GitHub stars2 594323
Stars, last 30 days+229—
Stable releases, 12 months01
Latest release—v0.0.52 · 5 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

brightbean-studio scores 60/100 against 44/100 for UglyFeed, so it is the safer default.

UglyFeed ships more often: 1 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for brightbean-studio.

brightbean-studio is growing faster right now (+229 stars in 30 days).

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