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RomMvsTidal Echo

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

RomMTidal Echo
Score81/10047/100
Rank in category#1 of 5 in Emulation#61 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars14 147329
Stars, last 30 days+979+0
Stable releases, 12 months100
Latest release5.4.1 · 22 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonHTML

Which one should you pick?

RomM scores 81/100 against 47/100 for Tidal Echo, so it is the safer default.

RomM ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Tidal Echo.

If you want the quickest setup, RomM is easier to run; Tidal Echo needs more configuration.

RomM is growing faster right now (+979 stars in 30 days).

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