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

MailuTeXbrain
Score69/10046/100
Rank in category#8 of 106 in Email#105 of 166 in Developer Tools
GitHub stars7 591200
Stars, last 30 days+69+0
Stable releases, 12 months220
Latest release2024.06.67 · 23 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseOtherMIT
Main languagePythonTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Mailu scores 69/100 against 46/100 for TeXbrain, so it is the safer default.

Mailu ships more often: 22 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for TeXbrain.

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

Mailu is growing faster right now (+69 stars in 30 days).

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