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excalidrawvsyoutube-dl-nas

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

excalidrawyoutube-dl-nas
Score91/10050/100
Rank in category#1 of 9 in Whiteboarding#27 of 45 in Download Management
GitHub stars134 777201
Stars, last 30 days+1 944+0
Stable releases, 12 months111
Latest releasev0.18.1 · 21 Apr 202626.1029 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITMIT
Main languageTypescriptPython

Which one should you pick?

excalidraw scores 91/100 against 50/100 for youtube-dl-nas, so it is the safer default.

youtube-dl-nas ships more often: 11 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for excalidraw.

excalidraw is growing faster right now (+1 944 stars in 30 days).

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