Umbrel
A beautiful personal server OS for self-hosting. Install on a Raspberry Pi 4 or Ubuntu/Debian.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 261 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 2.0.0 (Sep 2026).
Comparisons in Self-hosting Solutions: Cloudron Cloud alternatives, Heroku alternatives.
Read the comparison: Cloudron vs YunoHost vs Cosmos vs Umbrel (2026)
At a glance
Umbrel quick facts
- Health score
- 96/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 12,482
- Last commit
- 1 month ago (Sep 2026)
- Latest release
- 2.0.0, Sep 2026
- Licence
- ⊘ Proprietary
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Get an Umbrel Pro or Umbrel Home , or download umbrelOS for free on an Intel or AMD machine, Raspberry Pi 5, or a virtual machine."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Umbrel scores 96/100, #1 of 28 in Self-hosting Solutions: 261 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (2.0.0, 1 month ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 12,482 stars add 16.4 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 3.6 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
261 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
2.0.0 released 1 month ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 16.4 / 20
12k 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
- 261
- Last 90 days
- 490
- Last 12 months
- 1 month ago
- Last push
Ranked #1 of 28 tools in Self-hosting Solutions by health , just above Cosmos (#2) .
Details
| Licence | ⊘ Proprietary |
| Platforms | Nodejs, Docker |
| Latest release | 2.0.0 · 1 month ago |
| Stars | 12,482 |
| Open issues | 435 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | getumbrel/umbrel ↗ |
Umbrel vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Umbrel (Self-hosting Solutions), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umbrel (this tool) | 96 | 12k | ⊘ Proprietary | 1 month ago |
| DietPi | 85 | 6.4k | GPL-2.0 | today |
| YunoHost | 84 | 3k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Websoft9 | 83 | 2.1k | LGPL-3.0 | today |
| xsrv | 80 | 411 | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| NextCloudPi | 59 | 3k | GPL-2.0 | 2 months ago |
Umbrel: common questions
Is Umbrel still maintained?
Umbrel had 261 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 1 month ago; the latest tagged release, 2.0.0, is from 1 month ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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