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Librumvsxpipe-webtop

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

Librumxpipe-webtop
Score60/10070/100
Rank in category#5 of 7 in E-book Management#5 of 23 in Remote Access
GitHub stars5 31814 633
Stars, last 30 days+-2+75
Stable releases, 12 months035
Latest release—24.9 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageCJava

Which one should you pick?

xpipe-webtop scores 70/100 against 60/100 for Librum, so it is the safer default.

xpipe-webtop ships more often: 35 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Librum.

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

xpipe-webtop is growing faster right now (+75 stars in 30 days).

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