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Mailcowvsopen-web-calendar

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

Mailcowopen-web-calendar
Score77/10053/100
Rank in category#2 of 106 in Email#9 of 30 in Calendar & Contacts
GitHub stars13 713334
Stars, last 30 days+215—
Stable releases, 12 months160
Latest release2026-10 · 21 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseGPL-3.0GPL-2.0
Main languageJavaScriptPython

Which one should you pick?

Mailcow scores 77/100 against 53/100 for open-web-calendar, so it is the safer default.

Mailcow ships more often: 16 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for open-web-calendar.

If you want the quickest setup, open-web-calendar is easier to run; Mailcow needs more configuration.

Mailcow is growing faster right now (+215 stars in 30 days).

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