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Comparison · Infra & APIs
Jackett vs Dashy
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Jackett and Dashy — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
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Jackett vs Dashy: at a glance
What is Jackett?
A daily-shipping indexer proxy whose entire product is a scraper definition file that never stops rotting.
Jackett ships a tagged release essentially every day, and every one of them is the same shape: tracker selectors updated, domains bumped, categories added, dead sites removed. The release notes are auto-generated commit lists with no prose. The C# application itself is stable; what changes is the YAML definition corpus that keeps a few hundred torrent trackers reachable through a single Torznab endpoint.
What is Dashy?
The self-hosted dashboard finally let you drag things around instead of editing YAML.
Dashy tags a release per merged pull request, so the version number climbs several times a week while most tags carry a single dependabot bump or a translation file. The substance sits in 4.5.0, which added drag-and-drop editing of sections, items and widgets, rebuilt the GitHub stats widget on GitHub's own API with optional token authentication, and expanded number formatting in the custom-api widget. Point releases since have been an OIDC post-logout redirect, item sorting options, and an out-of-memory crash fix.
Jackett vs Dashy: editorial side-by-side
Jackett
5.0INFRA · APIS
A daily-shipping indexer proxy whose entire product is a scraper definition file that never stops rotting.
◆ Current state
Jackett ships a tagged release essentially every day, and every one of them is the same shape: tracker selectors updated, domains bumped, categories added, dead sites removed. The release notes are auto-generated commit lists with no prose. The C# application itself is stable; what changes is the YAML definition corpus that keeps a few hundred torrent trackers reachable through a single Torznab endpoint.
◆ Where it's heading
This is maintenance-as-product, and the cadence is a symptom rather than a sign of momentum: trackers move domains, add anti-bot checks, and change markup, so the definitions decay continuously and the fix rate has to match. The visible trend across these releases is attrition — torr9, rockbox, rain, runtheframes, torrentleech-pl and elitetorrent-wf all removed in a single fortnight — partially offset by category expansion on the trackers that survive.
◆ Prediction
Expect the daily definition-churn cadence to continue unchanged, with the removal list growing faster than the addition list. Nothing in these entries indicates work on the application core.
Dashy
6.3INFRA · APIS
The self-hosted dashboard finally let you drag things around instead of editing YAML.
◆ Current state
Dashy tags a release per merged pull request, so the version number climbs several times a week while most tags carry a single dependabot bump or a translation file. The substance sits in 4.5.0, which added drag-and-drop editing of sections, items and widgets, rebuilt the GitHub stats widget on GitHub's own API with optional token authentication, and expanded number formatting in the custom-api widget. Point releases since have been an OIDC post-logout redirect, item sorting options, and an out-of-memory crash fix.
◆ Where it's heading
The direction is away from configuration-as-a-file toward direct manipulation, which is the friction that has always separated Dashy from simpler homepage dashboards. The supporting work lines up with it: sorting controls, better handling of long titles, richer widget formatting. The auth-adjacent changes — OIDC logout redirect, logout destination — suggest people are running Dashy behind an identity provider for more than one user.
◆ Prediction
With drag-and-drop editing shipped, the follow-on is most likely persistence and permissions questions around who can edit a shared dashboard, though these notes do not state that. Expect the per-PR release cadence to continue producing mostly dependency tags.
Alternatives to Jackett and Dashy
Other Infra & APIs products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Jackett or Dashy.
Sonarr
Sonarr's release feed is a two-month run of one-line fixes, most of them about qBittorrent auth.
k0s
k0s ships one fix four times a day — the cost of keeping four Kubernetes branches current.
Microcks
Microcks is quietly wiring LLM example generation into an API mocking tool built for Kubernetes.
BorgBackup
Borg's long-running 2.0 beta finally landed packs — and warned it dropped back to alpha quality.
JuiceFS
JuiceFS is spending its v1.4 cycle on metadata-engine efficiency, one transaction at a time.
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Recent activity from Jackett and Dashy
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 9h agoJackettDefinition updates: magnetcat selectors, torrentavenue renamed
- 1d agoJackettDefinition updates: hdgalaktik and tmghub selectors, freeleech handling
- 1d agoDashyMissing German translations added
- 2d agoJackettpornotorrent moves to native Torznab API, nethd adds TV support
- 3d agoJacketttorr9 removed, engine tags and domains refreshed
- 3d agoDashyOut-of-memory crash from unclosed secureConnect listeners fixed
- 4d agoDashyDependency bumps in the minor-and-patch group
- 4d agoJackettThree trackers removed, btschool gains sort settings
- 5d agoJackettrockbox removed, TPB top100 selection becomes configurable
- 6d agoDashyOIDC post-logout redirect URI support
- 8d agoDashyItems can be sorted by provider and by item ID
- 9d agoDashy4.5.0 adds drag-and-drop editing of sections, items and widgets ⚡
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Jackett and Dashy?
Both compete on the same themes — self-hosted — within Infra & APIs. Dashy is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Jackett better than Dashy?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Dashy is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Jackett?
Top Jackett alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Jackett alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/jackett for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Dashy?
Top Dashy alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Dashy alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/dashy for the full list with editorial commentary on each.