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grocyvsvanilla-cookbook

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

grocyvanilla-cookbook
Score75/10046/100
Rank in category#2 of 15 in Home Management#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars9 625158
Stars, last 30 days+102—
Stable releases, 12 months313
Latest releasev4.7.1 · 4 Sept 2026v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Main languageBladeJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

grocy scores 75/100 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 3 for grocy.

grocy is growing faster right now (+102 stars in 30 days).

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