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CryptPadvsOpenELIS Global

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

CryptPadOpenELIS Global
Score71/10054/100
Rank in category#1 of 6 in Office Suites#3 of 5 in Healthcare
GitHub stars8 031278
Stars, last 30 days+76+0
Stable releases, 12 months78
Latest release2026.10.0 · 21 Oct 20263.3.0 · 20 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0MPL-2.0
Main languageJavaScriptJava

Which one should you pick?

CryptPad scores 71/100 against 54/100 for OpenELIS Global, so it is the safer default.

OpenELIS Global ships more often: 8 stable releases in the past year, against 7 for CryptPad.

If you want the quickest setup, OpenELIS Global is easier to run; CryptPad needs more configuration.

CryptPad is growing faster right now (+76 stars in 30 days).

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