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drawdbvsKavita

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

drawdbKavita
Score80/10073/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Diagramming#1 of 14 in Comics
GitHub stars40 17411 969
Stars, last 30 days+476+233
Stable releases, 12 months08
Latest release—v0.9.1.4 · 2 Sept 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languageJavaScriptC#

Which one should you pick?

drawdb scores 80/100 against 73/100 for Kavita, so it is the safer default.

Kavita ships more often: 8 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for drawdb.

drawdb is growing faster right now (+476 stars in 30 days).

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