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HomeButler

Installs and manages a curated catalog of applications via Docker Compose, maps containers and exposed ports, verifies backups restore, and reports what changed since the last run with CLI, JSON, web and MCP interfaces.

Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Still maintained? Yes: 237 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v1.4.0 (Oct 2026).

Comparisons in Self-hosting Solutions: Cloudron Cloud alternatives, Heroku alternatives.

Docker #3 of 28 in Self-hosting Solutions

At a glance

HomeButler quick facts

Health score
90/100 GOOD
Stars
313
Last commit
yesterday (Oct 2026)
Latest release
v1.4.0, Oct 2026
Licence
MIT
View Higangssh/homebutler on GitHub ↗ Website ↗

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In its own words

The project's README opens: "A single Go binary that remembers what your server looked like last time, and tells you — or an agent — what moved."

Why it ranks here

Health score explained

HomeButler scores 90/100, #3 of 28 in Self-hosting Solutions: 237 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v1.4.0, yesterday) earns 25.0 of 25, 313 stars add 10.0 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 10.0 more points.

Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.

  • Commit activity 35.0 / 35

    237 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)

  • Release recency 25.0 / 25

    v1.4.0 released yesterday

  • Stars biggest shortfall 10.0 / 20

    313 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)

  • Not archived 10.0 / 10

    Repository is active

  • Docker support 10.0 / 10

    Docker image or Compose file available

Commit activity

252 commits over the last 12 months
237
Last 90 days
252
Last 12 months
yesterday
Last push

Ranked #3 of 28 tools in Self-hosting Solutions by health , between Cosmos (#2) and DietPi (#4) .

Details

LicenceMIT
PlatformsDocker, Go
Latest releasev1.4.0 · yesterday
Stars313
Open issues2
DockerYes
RepositoryHigangssh/homebutler ↗
Visit website ↗ Source code ↗

HomeButler vs its top 5 alternatives

Active tools that share a category with HomeButler (Self-hosting Solutions), scored on the same five terms.

Tool Health Stars Licence Last commit
Cosmos 95 6.2k Apache-2.0 9 days ago
HomeButler (this tool) 90 313 MIT yesterday
DockSTARTer 83 2.6k MIT 9 days ago
xsrv 80 411 GPL-3.0 yesterday
Tipi 77 9.7k GPL-3.0 3 days ago
NextCloudPi 59 3k GPL-2.0 2 months ago

HomeButler: common questions

Is HomeButler still maintained?

HomeButler had 237 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, v1.4.0, is from yesterday. Repoly recomputes this nightly.