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CMS Made SimplevsTwake Chat

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

CMS Made SimpleTwake Chat
Score64/10046/100
Rank in category#12 of 42 in Content Management#64 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars—172
Stars, last 30 days——
Stable releases, 12 months010
Latest release—v2.26.0 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseGPL-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main language—Dart

Which one should you pick?

CMS Made Simple scores 64/100 against 46/100 for Twake Chat, so it is the safer default.

Twake Chat ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for CMS Made Simple.

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