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redroidvsvanilla-cookbook

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

redroidvanilla-cookbook
Score57/10046/100
Rank in category#4 of 5 in Emulation#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars7 054158
Stars, last 30 days+2+0
Stable releases, 12 months013
Latest release—v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
License—GPL-3.0
Main languageShellJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

redroid scores 57/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

vanilla-cookbook ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for redroid.

If you want the quickest setup, vanilla-cookbook is easier to run; redroid needs more configuration.

redroid is growing faster right now (+2 stars in 30 days).

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