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Shiori vs Contractbook
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Shiori and Contractbook — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Shiori vs Contractbook: at a glance
| Feature | Shiori | Contractbook |
|---|---|---|
| Sector | Collab | Collab |
| Velocity score | 0.0 | 5.0 |
| Sparks · 30d | 0 | 0 |
| Top themes | bookmarks, self-hosted, api-first, golang | contract-automation, permissions, two-factor-auth, ai-extraction |
| Last editorial update | 2h ago | 2h ago |
| Website | Visit → | — |
What is Shiori?
A Go bookmark manager rebuilding itself around an API — and only ever shipping release candidates.
Shiori is a self-hosted read-later and bookmark tool whose recent history is entirely release candidates: v1.7.0-rc.2, rc.3, v1.7.2-rc.1, v1.8.0-rc.1. The visible work has moved off the web UI and into an API v1 surface — tag endpoints, bookmark-tag association, filtering and counts — plus infrastructure like proxy-header authentication and SQLite performance. The last tagged release in this window is from July 2025.
What is Contractbook?
Contract automation grows up: admin permission maps, 2FA, and forms that do their own arithmetic.
Contractbook released a batch of six changes on a single day covering three areas at once. Administration gets a company-wide Spaces access page answering who can reach which space and with what permission, plus OTP two-factor authentication at login. Contract creation gets calculation fields in forms that compute totals and pro-rated amounts and insert them into the document automatically. The AI side gets a new extraction model and a dedicated place to manage AI upload contract types, with built-in defaults now editable per company.
Shiori vs Contractbook: editorial side-by-side
Shiori
0.0COLLAB
A Go bookmark manager rebuilding itself around an API — and only ever shipping release candidates.
◆ Current state
Shiori is a self-hosted read-later and bookmark tool whose recent history is entirely release candidates: v1.7.0-rc.2, rc.3, v1.7.2-rc.1, v1.8.0-rc.1. The visible work has moved off the web UI and into an API v1 surface — tag endpoints, bookmark-tag association, filtering and counts — plus infrastructure like proxy-header authentication and SQLite performance. The last tagged release in this window is from July 2025.
◆ Where it's heading
The project is converting from a web app with an API bolted on into an API-first service with a client, and the login component, PWA and theme work are being rewritten around that split. Proxy forward-header authentication in particular is a deployment-shape decision: it assumes Shiori sits behind an authenticating reverse proxy rather than owning identity itself. The RC-only tagging pattern makes it hard to tell what the maintainers consider stable.
◆ Prediction
The next step is presumably a final v1.8.0 consolidating the API v1 tag work, though nothing in these entries indicates the RC-to-stable promotion is scheduled. If the pattern holds, the following RC continues on API endpoints rather than the UI.
Contractbook
5.0COLLAB
Contract automation grows up: admin permission maps, 2FA, and forms that do their own arithmetic.
◆ Current state
Contractbook released a batch of six changes on a single day covering three areas at once. Administration gets a company-wide Spaces access page answering who can reach which space and with what permission, plus OTP two-factor authentication at login. Contract creation gets calculation fields in forms that compute totals and pro-rated amounts and insert them into the document automatically. The AI side gets a new extraction model and a dedicated place to manage AI upload contract types, with built-in defaults now editable per company.
◆ Where it's heading
The pattern is a product being fitted for larger customers: the access-visibility page is gated to Accelerate and Enterprise plans, group-level company permissions landed earlier in the year, and 2FA closes the obvious procurement objection. Meanwhile the AI features are moving from fixed behaviour toward configurable behaviour — extraction types are now a company's own list rather than the vendor's. Calculations remove the last common reason to edit a generated .docx by hand.
◆ Prediction
The admin thread points toward more permission surface — audit trails or per-space delegation would follow naturally from a page that already explains where each permission comes from. Nothing in these entries indicates how much extraction accuracy actually improved.
Alternatives to Shiori and Contractbook
Other Collab 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 Shiori or Contractbook.
Tana
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Miniflux
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Kavita
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FreshRSS
FreshRSS keeps turning a reader into a queryable archive — and hardening the parts that touch the web.
Passbolt
Passbolt collapsed the Community-to-Pro upgrade into a settings toggle, then spent the next release on sharing transparency.
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Recent activity from Shiori and Contractbook
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1d agoContractbook🧮 Calculations in forms
- 1d agoContractbook🔑 OTP two-factor authentication
- 1d agoContractbook🖼️ AI upload: contract types
- 1d agoContractbook🗺️ Spaces access
- 1d agoContractbook🔎 Search results revamp
- 1d agoContractbook✨ AI extraction model upgrade
- 1y agoShioriAPI v1 gains tag endpoints, filtering and counts; proxy header auth
- 1y agoShioriSwagger UI disabled by default; session auth and Postgres fixes
- 2y agoShioriLight, dark and system theme selection in the web UI
- 2y agoShioriHome button clears the active search query
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Shiori and Contractbook?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Contractbook is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 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 Shiori better than Contractbook?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Contractbook is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Collab products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Shiori?
Top Shiori alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Shiori alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/shiori for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Contractbook?
Top Contractbook alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Contractbook alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/contractbook for the full list with editorial commentary on each.