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Clapervsquackback

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

Claperquackback
Score59/10050/100
Rank in category#8 of 18 in Content Management#9 of 14 in Customer Support
GitHub stars821331
Stars, last 30 days+17—
Stable releases, 12 months815
Latest releasev3.2.0 · 27 Oct 2026v0.14.1 · 7 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageElixirTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Claper scores 59/100 against 50/100 for quackback, so it is the safer default.

quackback ships more often: 15 stable releases in the past year, against 8 for Claper.

Claper is growing faster right now (+17 stars in 30 days).

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