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excalidrawvsStalwart Mail Server

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

excalidrawStalwart Mail Server
Score91/10078/100
Rank in category#1 of 9 in Whiteboarding#2 of 16 in Mail Server
GitHub stars134 75015 464
Stars, last 30 days+2 008+680
Stable releases, 12 months131
Latest releasev0.18.1 · 21 Apr 2026v1.0.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0-only AND LicenseRef-SEL
Main languageTypescriptRust

Which one should you pick?

excalidraw scores 91/100 against 78/100 for Stalwart Mail Server, so it is the safer default.

Stalwart Mail Server ships more often: 31 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for excalidraw.

excalidraw is growing faster right now (+2 008 stars in 30 days).

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