Calibre Web vs Calibre Web Automated

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

Calibre Web and Calibre Web Automated are closely matched on maintenance health (78 vs 78). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
Calibre WebCalibre Web Automated
Health score 78/100 78/100
Commits (11 mo) 284 429
Commits (last 3 mo) 93 73
Stars 18k 6.3k
Latest release 8 Aug 2026 27 Sept 2026
Licence GPL-3.0 GPL-3.0
Built with Python Docker
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

Calibre Web

Browse, read and download eBooks using an existing Calibre database.

78/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 20/40
Releases 25/25
Community 17/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 51% of tracked projects; popularity more than 87%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 12 commits 2025-11: 16 commits 2025-12: 28 commits 2026-01: 43 commits 2026-02: 27 commits 2026-03: 9 commits 2026-04: 46 commits 2026-05: 10 commits 2026-06: 3 commits 2026-07: 6 commits 2026-08: 84 commits

Calibre Web Automated

All-in-one solution, combining the modern lightweight web UI from Calibre-Web with the robust, versatile feature set of Calibre (fork of Calibre Web).

78/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 24/40
Releases 25/25
Community 14/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 60% of tracked projects; popularity more than 71%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 0 commits 2025-11: 0 commits 2025-12: 0 commits 2026-01: 250 commits 2026-02: 100 commits 2026-03: 3 commits 2026-04: 0 commits 2026-05: 3 commits 2026-06: 0 commits 2026-07: 9 commits 2026-08: 64 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 document management - e-books.