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Gotifyvsvanilla-cookbook

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

Gotifyvanilla-cookbook
Score74/10046/100
Rank in category#3 of 19 in Notifications#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars16 147158
Stars, last 30 days+174+0
Stable releases, 12 months613
Latest releasev3.1.1 · 15 Sept 2026v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherGPL-3.0
Main languageGoJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

Gotify scores 74/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

vanilla-cookbook ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 6 for Gotify.

Gotify is growing faster right now (+174 stars in 30 days).

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