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OmniParsevsWriteFreely

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

OmniParseWriteFreely
Score34/10065/100
Rank in category#39 of 46 in Document Management#2 of 24 in Blogging
GitHub stars7 9315 276
Stars, last 30 days+-1+19
Stable releases, 12 months03
Latest release—v0.17.2 · 10 Aug 2026
Setup—Moderate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonGo

Which one should you pick?

WriteFreely scores 65/100 against 34/100 for OmniParse, so it is the safer default.

WriteFreely ships more often: 3 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for OmniParse.

WriteFreely is growing faster right now (+19 stars in 30 days).

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