Stoat
Stoat is a user-first chat platform built with modern web technologies.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 7 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v1.1.4 (Nov 2025).
Comparisons in Communication - Custom Communication Systems: Slack alternatives, WhatsApp alternatives, Microsoft Teams alternatives, Discord alternatives.
At a glance
Stoat quick facts
- Health score
- 49/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 2,677
- Last commit
- 23 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v1.1.4, Nov 2025
Top alternatives to Stoat
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Stoat scores 49/100, #35 of 44 in Communication - Custom Communication Systems: 7 commits in the last 90 days earn 8.2 of 35 points, the latest release (v1.1.4, 11 months ago) earns 17.6 of 25, 2,677 stars add 13.7 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 26.8 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 8.2 / 35
7 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 17.6 / 25
v1.1.4 released 11 months ago
- Stars 13.7 / 20
2.7k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 7
- Last 90 days
- 33
- Last 12 months
- 23 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #35 of 44 tools in Communication - Custom Communication Systems by health , between Shhh (#34) and Databag (#36) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0, MIT |
| Platforms | Rust |
| Latest release | v1.1.4 · 11 months ago |
| Stars | 2,677 |
| Open issues | 19 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | stoatchat/self-hosted ↗ |
Stoat vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Stoat (Communication - Custom Communication Systems), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rocket.Chat | 99 | 46k | MIT | today |
| Chatwoot | 98 | 39k | ⊘ Proprietary | today |
| Mattermost | 98 | 39k | ⊘ Proprietary | today |
| Novu | 98 | 40k | MIT | today |
| ntfy | 98 | 35k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Stoat (this tool) | 49 | 2.7k | AGPL-3.0 | 23 days ago |
Stoat: common questions
Is Stoat still maintained?
Stoat had 7 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 23 days ago; the latest tagged release, v1.1.4, is from 11 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.