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grimmoryvsopenvox

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

grimmoryopenvox
Score69/10053/100
Rank in category#2 of 12 in Book Management#5 of 8 in Configuration Management
GitHub stars4 626199
Stars, last 30 days+201+0
Stable releases, 12 months1917
Latest releasev3.5.0 · 21 Sept 20268.31.2 · 29 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageJavaRuby

Which one should you pick?

grimmory scores 69/100 against 53/100 for openvox, so it is the safer default.

grimmory ships more often: 19 stable releases in the past year, against 17 for openvox.

If you want the quickest setup, grimmory is easier to run; openvox needs more configuration.

grimmory is growing faster right now (+201 stars in 30 days).

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