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brightbean-studiovsWhiteboard

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

brightbean-studioWhiteboard
Score60/10056/100
Rank in category#3 of 18 in Social Media Management#5 of 10 in Code Review
GitHub stars2 5953 379
Stars, last 30 days+225+2
Stable releases, 12 months03
Latest release—diffr/0.1.22 · 26 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Main languagePythonTypescript

Which one should you pick?

brightbean-studio scores 60/100 against 56/100 for Whiteboard, so it is the safer default.

Whiteboard ships more often: 3 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for brightbean-studio.

If you want the quickest setup, Whiteboard is easier to run; brightbean-studio needs more configuration.

brightbean-studio is growing faster right now (+225 stars in 30 days).

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