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Nextcloud NewsvsViseron

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

Nextcloud NewsViseron
Score61/10070/100
Rank in category#1 of 6 in Feed Aggregator#2 of 24 in Video Surveillance
GitHub stars1 0123 670
Stars, last 30 days+8+122
Stable releases, 12 months910
Latest release29.0.0 · 10 Oct 2026v3.7.0 · 17 Sept 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Main languagePHPPython

Which one should you pick?

Viseron scores 70/100 against 61/100 for Nextcloud News, so it is the safer default.

Viseron ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 9 for Nextcloud News.

Viseron is growing faster right now (+122 stars in 30 days).

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