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grimmoryvshestia

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

grimmoryhestia
Score69/10068/100
Rank in category#2 of 12 in Book Management#2 of 10 in Control Panel
GitHub stars4 6254 554
Stars, last 30 days+200+49
Stable releases, 12 months1911
Latest releasev3.5.0 · 21 Sept 20261.10.5 · 14 Sept 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languageJavaShell

Which one should you pick?

grimmory scores 69/100 against 68/100 for hestia, so it is the safer default.

grimmory ships more often: 19 stable releases in the past year, against 11 for hestia.

grimmory is growing faster right now (+200 stars in 30 days).

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