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umbrelOSvsYT Navigator

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

umbrelOSYT Navigator
Score72/10044/100
Rank in category#2 of 22 in Home Server#71 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars12 478606
Stars, last 30 days+426+0
Stable releases, 12 months70
Latest release2.0.0 · 22 Sept 2026—
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseOtherMIT
Main languageTypescriptPython

Which one should you pick?

umbrelOS scores 72/100 against 44/100 for YT Navigator, so it is the safer default.

umbrelOS ships more often: 7 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for YT Navigator.

If you want the quickest setup, umbrelOS is easier to run; YT Navigator needs more configuration.

umbrelOS is growing faster right now (+426 stars in 30 days).

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