FoodCoopShop vs Hive-Pal

Both are self-hosted community-supported agriculture (csa) projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

FoodCoopShop and Hive-Pal are closely matched on maintenance health (50 vs 52). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
FoodCoopShopHive-Pal
Health score 50/100 52/100
Commits (11 mo) 440 763
Commits (last 3 mo) 156 123
Stars 123 33
Latest release 4 Mar 2026 10 Jun 2026
Licence AGPL-3.0 MIT
Built with PHP, Docker Nodejs, Docker
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

FoodCoopShop

User-friendly software for food-coops.

50/100
Slowing

Activity has dropped noticeably. Check the repository before committing to it.

Maintenance 24/40
Releases 16/25
Community 2/20
Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 61% of tracked projects; popularity more than 8%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 18 commits 2025-11: 18 commits 2025-12: 20 commits 2026-01: 13 commits 2026-02: 23 commits 2026-03: 37 commits 2026-04: 75 commits 2026-05: 80 commits 2026-06: 118 commits 2026-07: 33 commits 2026-08: 5 commits

Hive-Pal

Mobile-first beekeeping management app for tracking hives, inspections, queen records, and equipment with streamlined data entry optimized for field use.

52/100
Steady

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

Maintenance 30/40
Releases 21/25
Community 0/20
Momentum 1/15

Commit activity more than 74% of tracked projects; popularity more than 2%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 3 commits 2025-11: 15 commits 2025-12: 38 commits 2026-01: 8 commits 2026-02: 58 commits 2026-03: 294 commits 2026-04: 162 commits 2026-05: 62 commits 2026-06: 82 commits 2026-07: 38 commits 2026-08: 3 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 community-supported agriculture (csa).