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excalidrawvsLife K-Line

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

excalidrawLife K-Line
Score91/10049/100
Rank in category#1 of 9 in Whiteboarding#5 of 7 in Data Visualization
GitHub stars134 758434
Stars, last 30 days+1 925+0
Stable releases, 12 months11
Latest releasev0.18.1 · 21 Apr 2026v1.0.2 · 22 Dec 2025
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

excalidraw scores 91/100 against 49/100 for Life K-Line, so it is the safer default.

excalidraw is growing faster right now (+1 925 stars in 30 days).

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