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nginx-uivsYT Navigator

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

nginx-uiYT Navigator
Score74/10044/100
Rank in category#3 of 12 in Web Servers#71 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars11 679606
Stars, last 30 days+142+0
Stable releases, 12 months370
Latest releasev2.9.1 · 22 Oct 2026—
SetupEasyAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageGoPython

Which one should you pick?

nginx-ui scores 74/100 against 44/100 for YT Navigator, so it is the safer default.

nginx-ui ships more often: 37 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for YT Navigator.

If you want the quickest setup, nginx-ui is easier to run; YT Navigator needs more configuration.

nginx-ui is growing faster right now (+142 stars in 30 days).

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