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huginn vs LibreHardwareMonitor
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars, 4,339 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. LibreHardwareMonitor has 9,328 stars, 1,048 forks, 524 open issues and last shipped 5 days ago. huginn leads on adoption by 439% (50,269 vs 9,328 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; LibreHardwareMonitor is written in C# under MPL-2.0. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, LibreHardwareMonitor 11%. huginn was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (monitoring), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| huginn | LibreHardwareMonitor | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 9.3K |
| License | MIT | MPL-2.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | C# |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-10-29 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 1.0K |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick huginn if
- You weight community size — 50K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Ruby
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick LibreHardwareMonitor if
- You want the LibreHardwareMonitor feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MPL-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches C#
- You evaluated both and LibreHardwareMonitor fits your workflow better
About huginn
What is Huginn? Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn's Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server. You always know who has your data. You do. Here are some of the things that you can do with Huginn: Track the weather and get an email when it's going to rain (or snow) tomorrow ("Don't forget your umbrella!") List terms that you care about and receive email when their occurrence on…
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About LibreHardwareMonitor
LibreHardwareMonitor Libre Hardware Monitor is free software that can monitor the temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of your computer. What's included? What can it do? You can read information from devices such as: Motherboards Intel and AMD processors NVIDIA, AMD and Intel graphics cards HDD, SSD and NVMe hard drives Network cards Where can I download it? You can download the latest release here. Nightly builds If you have a GitHub account, you can download nightly builds here. Otherwise, you can download the latest nightly build here. How can I help improve it? The…
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or LibreHardwareMonitor more popular?
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars and LibreHardwareMonitor has 9,328. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and LibreHardwareMonitor free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and LibreHardwareMonitor under MPL-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and LibreHardwareMonitor?
huginn is written in Ruby and LibreHardwareMonitor in C#. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, huginn or LibreHardwareMonitor?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (50,269 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose LibreHardwareMonitor if its feature set, stack or MPL-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.