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HabitTrovevsLanguageTool

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

HabitTroveLanguageTool
Score49/10075/100
Rank in category#17 of 38 in Personal Productivity#1 of 38 in Personal Productivity
GitHub stars69515 212
Stars, last 30 days+0+127
Stable releases, 12 months20
Latest releasev0.2.31 · 7 Mar 2026—
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0LGPL-2.1
Main languageTypescriptJava

Which one should you pick?

LanguageTool scores 75/100 against 49/100 for HabitTrove, so it is the safer default.

HabitTrove ships more often: 2 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for LanguageTool.

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

LanguageTool is growing faster right now (+127 stars in 30 days).

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