head to head · open source
huginn vs litter
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars, 4,339 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. litter has 1,655 stars, 61 forks, 17 open issues and last shipped 6 months ago. huginn leads on adoption by 2,937% (50,269 vs 1,655 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; litter is written in Go under MIT. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, litter 4%. huginn was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
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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Side by side
| huginn | litter | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 1.7K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | Ruby | Go |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-05-04 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 61 |
| 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 litter if
- You want the litter feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and litter 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 litter
Litter Litter is a pretty printer library for Go data structures to aid in debugging and testing. Litter is provided by Sanity: The Headless CMS Construction Kit Litter named for the fact that it outputs literals , which you litter your output with. As a side benefit, all Litter output is syntactically correct Go. You can use Litter to emit data during debug, and it's also really nice for "snapshot data" in unit tests, since it produces consistent, sorted output. Litter was inspired by Spew, but focuses on terseness and readability. Basic example This: will output: Use in tests Litter is a great alternative to…
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or litter more popular?
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars and litter has 1,655. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and litter free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and litter under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and litter?
huginn is written in Ruby and litter in Go. 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 litter?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (50,269 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose litter if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.