Chyrp Lite vs Ech0

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

Ech0 scores 74 against Chyrp Lite's 67, putting it slightly ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume and a larger community. That measures project health, not feature fit — Chyrp Lite may still be the right choice if it does what you need.

	Chyrp Lite	Ech0
Health score	67/100	74/100
Commits (11 mo)	352	1974
Commits (last 3 mo)	126	310
Stars	495	2.1k
Latest release	7 Aug 2026	28 Aug 2026
Licence	BSD-3-Clause	AGPL-3.0
Built with	PHP	Docker, K8S
Typical RAM	1 GB	1 GB

Chyrp Lite

Extra-awesome, extra-lightweight blog engine.

67/100

Steady

Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.

Maintenance 23/40

Releases 25/25

Community 5/20

Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 57% of tracked projects; popularity more than 23%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

Ech0

Lightweight federated publishing platform focused on personal idea sharing (documentation in Chinese).

74/100

Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 36/40

Releases 25/25

Community 10/20

Momentum 4/15

Commit activity more than 89% of tracked projects; popularity more than 49%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

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 blogging platforms.