selfhost.directory

The index of self-hostable projects — ranked, categorized and served with live updates.
Own your data and stop giving it to big tech.

Tube Archivistvsvanilla-cookbook

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

Tube Archivistvanilla-cookbook
Score72/10046/100
Rank in category#7 of 118 in Media Server#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars8 552158
Stars, last 30 days+83+0
Stable releases, 12 months613
Latest releasev0.6.0 · 25 Oct 2026v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languagePythonJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

Tube Archivist scores 72/100 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 6 for Tube Archivist.

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

Tube Archivist is growing faster right now (+83 stars in 30 days).

Swap a project

Keep Tube Archivist, compare it with
Keep vanilla-cookbook, compare it with