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huginn vs MangoHud
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars, 4,339 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. MangoHud has 9,220 stars, 449 forks, 336 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. huginn leads on adoption by 445% (50,269 vs 9,220 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; MangoHud is written in C under MIT. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, MangoHud 5%. 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 | MangoHud | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 9.2K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | Ruby | C |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-11-01 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 449 |
| 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 MangoHud if
- You want the MangoHud feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches C
- You evaluated both and MangoHud 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 MangoHud
MangoHud A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more. MangoHud Installation Build From Source Dependencies Building with build script Installation Pre packaged Binaries GitHub releases Arch based distributions Debian, Ubuntu Fedora Solus openSUSE Flatpak Normal usage OpenGL Hud configuration Environment Variables: MANGOHUD CONFIG , MANGOHUD CONFIGFILE , and MANGOHUD PRESETSFILE Vsync OpenGL Vsync Vulkan Vsync Keybindings Workarounds FPS logging Online visualization: FlightlessMango.com Local visualization: mangoplot Metrics support by GPU vendor/driver Installation Build…
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or MangoHud more popular?
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars and MangoHud has 9,220. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and MangoHud free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and MangoHud under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and MangoHud?
huginn is written in Ruby and MangoHud 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 MangoHud?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (50,269 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose MangoHud if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.