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RetromvsSwizGuard

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

RetromSwizGuard
Score59/10042/100
Rank in category#3 of 5 in Emulation#46 of 56 in VPN
GitHub stars2 100232
Stars, last 30 days+28+0
Stable releases, 12 months100
Latest releasev0.8.4 · 14 Jun 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageTypescriptShell

Which one should you pick?

Retrom scores 59/100 against 42/100 for SwizGuard, so it is the safer default.

Retrom ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for SwizGuard.

Retrom is growing faster right now (+28 stars in 30 days).

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