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Open Home Foundation Matter ServervsReadMeABook

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

Open Home Foundation Matter ServerReadMeABook
Score56/10064/100
Rank in category#42 of 104 in Home Automation#3 of 15 in Audiobook Management
GitHub stars4021 034
Stars, last 30 days+0+64
Stable releases, 12 months621
Latest releasev1.5.5 · 24 Oct 2026v1.2.12 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

ReadMeABook scores 64/100 against 56/100 for Open Home Foundation Matter Server, so it is the safer default.

ReadMeABook ships more often: 21 stable releases in the past year, against 6 for Open Home Foundation Matter Server.

ReadMeABook is growing faster right now (+64 stars in 30 days).

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