Bigcapital vs RecipeSage

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

Bigcapital and RecipeSage are closely matched on maintenance health (83 vs 83). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
BigcapitalRecipeSage
Health score 83/100 83/100
Commits (11 mo) 859 2261
Commits (last 3 mo) 385 962
Stars 3.9k 968
Latest release 23 Sept 2026 23 Sept 2026
Licence AGPL-3.0 AGPL-3.0
Built with Docker Nodejs
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

Bigcapital

Financial accounting and inventory management software for small to medium businesses.

83/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 31/40
Releases 25/25
Community 12/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 77% of tracked projects; popularity more than 62%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 39 commits 2025-11: 44 commits 2025-12: 43 commits 2026-01: 67 commits 2026-02: 92 commits 2026-03: 106 commits 2026-04: 17 commits 2026-05: 66 commits 2026-06: 80 commits 2026-07: 54 commits 2026-08: 251 commits

RecipeSage

A recipe keeper, meal plan organizer, and shopping list manager that can import recipes directly from any URL.

83/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 36/40
Releases 25/25
Community 7/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 91% of tracked projects; popularity more than 34%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 71 commits 2025-11: 204 commits 2025-12: 86 commits 2026-01: 273 commits 2026-02: 88 commits 2026-03: 88 commits 2026-04: 200 commits 2026-05: 289 commits 2026-06: 295 commits 2026-07: 108 commits 2026-08: 559 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 inventory management.