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RetromvsYT Navigator

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

RetromYT Navigator
Score59/10044/100
Rank in category#3 of 5 in Emulation#71 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars2 100606
Stars, last 30 days+28+0
Stable releases, 12 months100
Latest releasev0.8.4 · 14 Jun 2026—
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageTypescriptPython

Which one should you pick?

Retrom scores 59/100 against 44/100 for YT Navigator, so it is the safer default.

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

If you want the quickest setup, Retrom is easier to run; YT Navigator needs more configuration.

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

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