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excalidrawvsThingport

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

excalidrawThingport
Score91/10049/100
Rank in category#1 of 9 in Whiteboarding#14 of 22 in 3D Printing
GitHub stars134 758240
Stars, last 30 days+1 925+4
Stable releases, 12 months110
Latest releasev0.18.1 · 21 Apr 2026extension-latest · 25 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

excalidraw scores 91/100 against 49/100 for Thingport, so it is the safer default.

Thingport ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for excalidraw.

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

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