Roundcube vs SnappyMail

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

Roundcube scores 72 against SnappyMail's 15, putting it clearly ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume and more recent releases. That measures project health, not feature fit — SnappyMail may still be the right choice if it does what you need.

	Roundcube	SnappyMail
Health score	72/100	15/100
Commits (11 mo)	265	1
Commits (last 3 mo)	85	0
Stars	7.2k	1.7k
Latest release	6 Sept 2026	9 Oct 2024
Licence	GPL-3.0	AGPL-3.0
Built with	PHP, deb	PHP
Typical RAM	1 GB	1 GB

Roundcube

Browser-based IMAP client with an application-like user interface.

72/100

Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 20/40

Releases 25/25

Community 15/20

Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 50% of tracked projects; popularity more than 74%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

SnappyMail

Simple, modern, lightweight & fast web-based email client (fork of RainLoop).

15/100

At risk

Little to no recent activity. Treat as unmaintained until proven otherwise.

Maintenance 1/40

Releases 5/25

Community 9/20

Momentum 0/15

Commit activity more than 2% of tracked projects; popularity more than 45%. 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.

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