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Dashyvsvanilla-cookbook

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

Dashyvanilla-cookbook
Score83/10046/100
Rank in category#2 of 44 in Dashboard#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars26 854158
Stars, last 30 days+294+0
Stable releases, 12 months713
Latest release4.9.0 · 23 Oct 2026v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Main languageVueJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

Dashy scores 83/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

vanilla-cookbook ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 7 for Dashy.

Dashy is growing faster right now (+294 stars in 30 days).

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