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Librumvspi-dispatch

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

Librumpi-dispatch
Score60/10050/100
Rank in category#5 of 7 in E-book Management#50 of 125 in AI
GitHub stars5 318188
Stars, last 30 days+-1—
Stable releases, 12 months010
Latest release—v4.3.1 · 14 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageCJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

Librum scores 60/100 against 50/100 for pi-dispatch, so it is the safer default.

pi-dispatch ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Librum.

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

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