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norishvsumbrel

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

norishumbrel
Score61/10052/100
Rank in category#3 of 18 in Recipe Management#9 of 22 in Home Server
GitHub stars1 424434
Stars, last 30 days+196+0
Stable releases, 12 months04
Latest release—v2.0.0 · 2 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

norish scores 61/100 against 52/100 for umbrel, so it is the safer default.

umbrel ships more often: 4 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for norish.

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

norish is growing faster right now (+196 stars in 30 days).

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