Appwrite vs Halo

Both are self-hosted software development - low code projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Appwrite scores 96 against Halo's 83, putting it ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume. That measures project health, not feature fit — Halo may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
AppwriteHalo
Health score 96/100 83/100
Commits (11 mo) 8249 583
Commits (last 3 mo) 2634 145
Stars 57k 40k
Latest release 23 Sept 2026 24 Sept 2026
Licence BSD-3-Clause GPL-3.0
Built with Docker Java, Docker
Typical RAM 2 GB 2 GB

Appwrite

End to end backend server for web, native, and mobile developers 🚀.

96/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 39/40
Releases 25/25
Community 19/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity in the top 1% of tracked projects; popularity more than 97%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 490 commits 2025-11: 409 commits 2025-12: 259 commits 2026-01: 532 commits 2026-02: 909 commits 2026-03: 772 commits 2026-04: 1129 commits 2026-05: 1115 commits 2026-06: 631 commits 2026-07: 957 commits 2026-08: 1046 commits

Halo

A powerful and easy-to-use website building tool (documentation in Chinese).

83/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 27/40
Releases 25/25
Community 19/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 67% of tracked projects; popularity more than 94%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 62 commits 2025-11: 52 commits 2025-12: 82 commits 2026-01: 69 commits 2026-02: 30 commits 2026-03: 39 commits 2026-04: 45 commits 2026-05: 59 commits 2026-06: 45 commits 2026-07: 45 commits 2026-08: 55 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

See every option in this category: self-hosted software development - low code.