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ryotvsvanilla-cookbook

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

ryotvanilla-cookbook
Score64/10046/100
Rank in category#4 of 11 in Fitness Tracker#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars3 648158
Stars, last 30 days+42—
Stable releases, 12 months213
Latest releasev10.5.0 · 22 Aug 2026v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

ryot scores 64/100 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 2 for ryot.

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

ryot is growing faster right now (+42 stars in 30 days).

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