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Shieldsvswardrobe

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

Shieldswardrobe
Score80/10034/100
Rank in category#6 of 166 in Developer Tools#36 of 38 in Personal Productivity
GitHub stars27 33127
Stars, last 30 days+125+0
Stable releases, 12 months05
Latest release—0.3.2 · 7 Jun 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaScriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Shields scores 80/100 against 34/100 for wardrobe, so it is the safer default.

wardrobe ships more often: 5 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Shields.

If you want the quickest setup, Shields is easier to run; wardrobe needs more configuration.

Shields is growing faster right now (+125 stars in 30 days).

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