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NightscoutvsTerraforming Mars

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

NightscoutTerraforming Mars
Score67/10062/100
Rank in category#2 of 31 in Health & Fitness#4 of 14 in Gaming
GitHub stars2 852961
Stars, last 30 days+21+9
Stable releases, 12 months60
Latest releasev15.0.9 · 21 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languageJavaScriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Nightscout scores 67/100 against 62/100 for Terraforming Mars, so it is the safer default.

Nightscout ships more often: 6 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Terraforming Mars.

Nightscout is growing faster right now (+21 stars in 30 days).

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