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rpi-mqtt-monitorvsWriteFreely

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

rpi-mqtt-monitorWriteFreely
Score51/10065/100
Rank in category#58 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#2 of 24 in Blogging
GitHub stars3285 276
Stars, last 30 days+0+19
Stable releases, 12 months83
Latest release1.4.3 · 18 Jun 2026v0.17.2 · 10 Aug 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonGo

Which one should you pick?

WriteFreely scores 65/100 against 51/100 for rpi-mqtt-monitor, so it is the safer default.

rpi-mqtt-monitor ships more often: 8 stable releases in the past year, against 3 for WriteFreely.

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

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