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pi-dispatchvsWriteFreely

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

pi-dispatchWriteFreely
Score50/10065/100
Rank in category#50 of 125 in AI#2 of 24 in Blogging
GitHub stars1885 276
Stars, last 30 days—+19
Stable releases, 12 months103
Latest releasev4.3.1 · 14 Oct 2026v0.17.2 · 10 Aug 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaScriptGo

Which one should you pick?

WriteFreely scores 65/100 against 50/100 for pi-dispatch, so it is the safer default.

pi-dispatch ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 3 for WriteFreely.

If you want the quickest setup, WriteFreely is easier to run; pi-dispatch needs more configuration.

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

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