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open-sparrowvsStoreDown

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

open-sparrowStoreDown
Score33/10045/100
Rank in category#3 of 3 in Internal Tools#8 of 11 in Inventory Management
GitHub stars4423
Stars, last 30 days+0+0
Stable releases, 12 months220
Latest release4.5 · 22 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseLGPL-3.0MIT
Main languagePHPJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

StoreDown scores 45/100 against 33/100 for open-sparrow, so it is the safer default.

open-sparrow ships more often: 22 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for StoreDown.

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