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Novuvsxpipe-webtop

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

Novuxpipe-webtop
Score76/10070/100
Rank in category#2 of 19 in Notifications#5 of 23 in Remote Access
GitHub stars40 22014 632
Stars, last 30 days+160+74
Stable releases, 12 months1235
Latest release@novu/framework@v2.14.0 · 28 Sept 202624.9 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherApache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptJava

Which one should you pick?

Novu scores 76/100 against 70/100 for xpipe-webtop, so it is the safer default.

xpipe-webtop ships more often: 35 stable releases in the past year, against 12 for Novu.

If you want the quickest setup, xpipe-webtop is easier to run; Novu needs more configuration.

Novu is growing faster right now (+160 stars in 30 days).

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