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draw.iovsexcalidraw-collaboration

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

draw.ioexcalidraw-collaboration
Score73/10046/100
Rank in category#3 of 12 in Diagramming#10 of 12 in Diagramming
GitHub stars9 046633
Stars, last 30 days+736—
Stable releases, 12 months443
Latest releasev32.6.1 · 23 Oct 2026v0.18.1-fork-b3 · 8 Aug 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Main languageJavaScript—

Which one should you pick?

draw.io scores 73/100 against 46/100 for excalidraw-collaboration, so it is the safer default.

draw.io ships more often: 44 stable releases in the past year, against 3 for excalidraw-collaboration.

draw.io is growing faster right now (+736 stars in 30 days).

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