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JmalCloudvsKavita

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

JmalCloudKavita
Score48/10073/100
Rank in category#10 of 11 in Cloud Storage#1 of 14 in Comics
GitHub stars88211 969
Stars, last 30 days+1+233
Stable releases, 12 months98
Latest releasev2.16.9 · 4 Aug 2026v0.9.1.4 · 2 Sept 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaScriptC#

Which one should you pick?

Kavita scores 73/100 against 48/100 for JmalCloud, so it is the safer default.

JmalCloud ships more often: 9 stable releases in the past year, against 8 for Kavita.

Kavita is growing faster right now (+233 stars in 30 days).

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