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EntevsTraceRoot

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

EnteTraceRoot
Score82/10058/100
Rank in category#1 of 41 in Photo Management#11 of 51 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars29 7331 142
Stars, last 30 days+673+30
Stable releases, 12 months3010
Latest releaseente-cli-v0.4.2 · 27 Oct 2026v1.3.3 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0Other
Main languageDartTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Ente scores 82/100 against 58/100 for TraceRoot, so it is the safer default.

Ente ships more often: 30 stable releases in the past year, against 10 for TraceRoot.

If you want the quickest setup, Ente is easier to run; TraceRoot needs more configuration.

Ente is growing faster right now (+673 stars in 30 days).

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