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CryptPadvspolar

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

CryptPadpolar
Score71/10071/100
Rank in category#1 of 6 in Office Suites#1 of 13 in Billing
GitHub stars8 03110 436
Stars, last 30 days+76+157
Stable releases, 12 months71
Latest release2026.10.0 · 21 Oct 2026@polar-sh/cli@3.0.0 · 16 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageJavaScriptPython

Which one should you pick?

CryptPad and polar score the same (71/100), so the choice comes down to the details below.

CryptPad ships more often: 7 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for polar.

polar is growing faster right now (+157 stars in 30 days).

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