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Librumvsopenvox

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

Librumopenvox
Score60/10053/100
Rank in category#5 of 7 in E-book Management#5 of 8 in Configuration Management
GitHub stars5 318199
Stars, last 30 days+-2+0
Stable releases, 12 months017
Latest release—8.31.2 · 29 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageCRuby

Which one should you pick?

Librum scores 60/100 against 53/100 for openvox, so it is the safer default.

openvox ships more often: 17 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Librum.

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

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