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grocyvsThesys

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

grocyThesys
Score75/10041/100
Rank in category#2 of 15 in Home Management#5 of 5 in Research
GitHub stars9 626177
Stars, last 30 days+101+0
Stable releases, 12 months35
Latest releasev4.7.1 · 4 Sept 2026v0.4.0 · 23 Sept 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languageBladeTypescript

Which one should you pick?

grocy scores 75/100 against 41/100 for Thesys, so it is the safer default.

Thesys ships more often: 5 stable releases in the past year, against 3 for grocy.

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

grocy is growing faster right now (+101 stars in 30 days).

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