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Kavitavswebarchive

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

Kavitawebarchive
Score73/10040/100
Rank in category#1 of 14 in Comics#11 of 12 in Archiving & Preservation
GitHub stars11 969200
Stars, last 30 days+233+0
Stable releases, 12 months80
Latest releasev0.9.1.4 · 2 Sept 2026—
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseGPL-3.0BSD-3-Clause
Main languageC#Go

Which one should you pick?

Kavita scores 73/100 against 40/100 for webarchive, so it is the safer default.

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

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

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

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