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illa-buildervsRSS Guard

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

illa-builderRSS Guard
Score67/10064/100
Rank in category#3 of 17 in Low Code#6 of 85 in Feed Reader
GitHub stars12 3372 817
Stars, last 30 days+15+56
Stable releases, 12 months015
Latest release—5.2.5 · 20 Aug 2026
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptC++

Which one should you pick?

illa-builder scores 67/100 against 64/100 for RSS Guard, so it is the safer default.

RSS Guard ships more often: 15 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for illa-builder.

If you want the quickest setup, RSS Guard is easier to run; illa-builder needs more configuration.

RSS Guard is growing faster right now (+56 stars in 30 days).

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