Radicale
Simple calendar and contact server with extremely low administrative overhead.
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Still maintained? Yes: 434 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v3.9.0 (Oct 2026).
At a glance
Radicale quick facts
- Health score
- 85/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 5,160
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v3.9.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "For the complete documentation, please visit Radicale master Documentation."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Radicale scores 85/100, #4 of 10 in Calendar & Contacts: 434 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v3.9.0, 5 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 5,160 stars add 14.9 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
434 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v3.9.0 released 5 days ago
- Stars 14.9 / 20
5.2k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 434
- Last 90 days
- 1,659
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #4 of 10 tools in Calendar & Contacts by health , between dayGLANCE (#3) and Davis (#5) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Python, deb |
| Latest release | v3.9.0 · 5 days ago |
| Stars | 5,160 |
| Open issues | 9 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | Kozea/Radicale ↗ |
Radicale vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Radicale (Calendar & Contacts), scored on the same five terms.
Radicale: common questions
Is Radicale still maintained?
Radicale had 434 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, v3.9.0, is from 5 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.