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Gitnessvsrecipe-buddy

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

Gitnessrecipe-buddy
Score80/10044/100
Rank in category#2 of 14 in Code Hosting#15 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars38 753277
Stars, last 30 days+319+0
Stable releases, 12 months60
Latest releasev2.28.2 · 20 Apr 2026—
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-3.0
Main languageGoTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Gitness scores 80/100 against 44/100 for recipe-buddy, so it is the safer default.

Gitness ships more often: 6 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for recipe-buddy.

Gitness is growing faster right now (+319 stars in 30 days).

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