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grimmoryvsvanilla-cookbook

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

grimmoryvanilla-cookbook
Score69/10046/100
Rank in category#2 of 12 in Book Management#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars4 626158
Stars, last 30 days+201+0
Stable releases, 12 months1913
Latest releasev3.5.0 · 21 Sept 2026v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languageJavaJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

grimmory scores 69/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

grimmory ships more often: 19 stable releases in the past year, against 13 for vanilla-cookbook.

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

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

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