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ChitchattervsHyphanet

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

ChitchatterHyphanet
Score58/10058/100
Rank in category#24 of 110 in Chat#2 of 3 in Peer-to-Peer
GitHub stars2 3431 228
Stars, last 30 days+12+11
Stable releases, 12 months04
Latest release—build01507 · 4 Sept 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseGPL-2.0GPL-2.0
Main languageTypescriptJava

Which one should you pick?

Chitchatter and Hyphanet score the same (58/100), so the choice comes down to the details below.

Hyphanet ships more often: 4 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Chitchatter.

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