selfhost.directory

The index of self-hostable projects — ranked, categorized and served with live updates.
Own your data and stop giving it to big tech.

KavitavsSyncTube

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

KavitaSyncTube
Score73/10051/100
Rank in category#1 of 14 in Comics#16 of 36 in Video Streaming
GitHub stars11 965395
Stars, last 30 days+237—
Stable releases, 12 months80
Latest releasev0.9.1.4 · 2 Sept 2026—
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageC#Haxe

Which one should you pick?

Kavita scores 73/100 against 51/100 for SyncTube, so it is the safer default.

Kavita ships more often: 8 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for SyncTube.

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

Kavita is growing faster right now (+237 stars in 30 days).

Swap a project