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DispatcharrvsRSS Guard

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

DispatcharrRSS Guard
Score72/10064/100
Rank in category#7 of 118 in Media Server#6 of 85 in Feed Reader
GitHub stars4 4142 817
Stars, last 30 days+299+56
Stable releases, 12 months2015
Latest releasev0.33.0 · 24 Oct 20265.2.5 · 20 Aug 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languagePythonC++

Which one should you pick?

Dispatcharr scores 72/100 against 64/100 for RSS Guard, so it is the safer default.

Dispatcharr ships more often: 20 stable releases in the past year, against 15 for RSS Guard.

If you want the quickest setup, RSS Guard is easier to run; Dispatcharr needs more configuration.

Dispatcharr is growing faster right now (+299 stars in 30 days).

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