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excalidrawvsYacy

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

excalidrawYacy
Score91/10062/100
Rank in category#1 of 9 in Whiteboarding#18 of 41 in Search Engines
GitHub stars134 7504 085
Stars, last 30 days+2 008+41
Stable releases, 12 months10
Latest releasev0.18.1 · 21 Apr 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITOther
Main languageTypescriptJava

Which one should you pick?

excalidraw scores 91/100 against 62/100 for Yacy, so it is the safer default.

excalidraw ships more often: 1 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Yacy.

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

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