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excalidrawvsNextcloud Office

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

excalidrawNextcloud Office
Score91/10058/100
Rank in category#1 of 9 in Whiteboarding#4 of 6 in Office Suites
GitHub stars134 745459
Stars, last 30 days+2 003+5
Stable releases, 12 months131
Latest releasev0.18.1 · 21 Apr 2026v12.0.1 · 29 Sept 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

excalidraw scores 91/100 against 58/100 for Nextcloud Office, so it is the safer default.

Nextcloud Office ships more often: 31 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for excalidraw.

excalidraw is growing faster right now (+2 003 stars in 30 days).

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