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Teable vs HumHub
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Teable and HumHub — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Shared themes:permissions
Teable vs HumHub: at a glance
What is Teable?
Teable ships several times a day, and almost all of it is admin and governance work.
Releases land in clusters — three on August 5th alone — each carrying a mix of feature updates and fixes. The subject matter is consistently administrative rather than end-user: audit logs, permission matrices, recycle-bin snapshots, SSO reliability, admin maintenance checks. The most substantial recent addition is Business-tier record archiving with long-term retention and CSV export, alongside admin-scheduled in-app announcements.
What is HumHub?
HumHub's public feed carries only betas, and 1.19's is mostly about surviving the upgrade.
The three releases visible here are all pre-release: 1.19.0-beta.1 in July, and 1.18.0-beta.6 and beta.5 before it. The 1.19 beta is dominated by upgrade-path and data-integrity repair — a foreign key violation that aborted the 1.19 comment content_id migration on databases with orphaned rows, a fatal error when deleting a user or running PurgeDeletedContents against content whose underlying record was gone, and a permissions fix where users with ManageSettings but not ManageModules were offered a Configure button on disabled modules. The 1.18 betas are ordinary polish: login screen layout, theme inheritance, validators, translations and installer fixes.
Teable vs HumHub: editorial side-by-side
Teable
5.0COLLAB
Teable ships several times a day, and almost all of it is admin and governance work.
◆ Current state
Releases land in clusters — three on August 5th alone — each carrying a mix of feature updates and fixes. The subject matter is consistently administrative rather than end-user: audit logs, permission matrices, recycle-bin snapshots, SSO reliability, admin maintenance checks. The most substantial recent addition is Business-tier record archiving with long-term retention and CSV export, alongside admin-scheduled in-app announcements.
◆ Where it's heading
Teable is hardening into something a platform team can run for an organization rather than a database a team adopts on its own. Data recovery is the clearest thread: computed-field outbox recovery, restorable conditional lookups, deleted-record snapshots and tiered archives all address the same anxiety about losing work in a computed, heavily linked base. Self-hosting is getting easier in parallel — Docker deployments now start without preconfigured secrets — while permissions move toward declarative CLI-managed configuration.
◆ Prediction
The retention and archive work looks headed toward a fuller compliance story; expect archive coverage to extend beyond records, and the CLI permission matrix to grow into the standard path for enterprise setup.
HumHub
2.5COLLAB
HumHub's public feed carries only betas, and 1.19's is mostly about surviving the upgrade.
◆ Current state
The three releases visible here are all pre-release: 1.19.0-beta.1 in July, and 1.18.0-beta.6 and beta.5 before it. The 1.19 beta is dominated by upgrade-path and data-integrity repair — a foreign key violation that aborted the 1.19 comment content_id migration on databases with orphaned rows, a fatal error when deleting a user or running PurgeDeletedContents against content whose underlying record was gone, and a permissions fix where users with ManageSettings but not ManageModules were offered a Configure button on disabled modules. The 1.18 betas are ordinary polish: login screen layout, theme inheritance, validators, translations and installer fixes.
◆ Where it's heading
The 1.19 cycle is being spent making the migration survivable on real installations rather than adding capability, which is the usual shape when a schema change meets databases that have accumulated orphaned rows over years. The permission fix points the same way: tightening the boundary between managing settings and managing modules is cleanup of an authorisation model, not an extension of it.
◆ Prediction
Only beta tags appear in this feed, so a 1.19.0 stable is the obvious next milestone, but nothing here dates it. Note that the gap between the 1.18 betas and the 1.19 beta is roughly six months, which is the only cadence signal available.
Alternatives to Teable and HumHub
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 Teable or HumHub.
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LibrePhotos
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Asana
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Recent activity from Teable and HumHub
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 6h agoTeablerelease.2026-08-07T08-07-22Z.2536
- 9h agoTeablerelease.2026-08-07T05-00-09Z.2531
- 1d agoTeableBatch recovery actions for stuck computed fields
- 1d agoTeableDocker self-hosting starts without preconfigured secrets
- 1d agoTeableUpgrade prompt for non-owners and filter fixes
- 2d agoTeableIn-app announcements and Business-tier record archiving
- 16d agoHumHub1.19 upgrade migration and orphaned content fixes
- 7mo agoHumHubLogin screen, theming and validator fixes
- 8mo agoHumHubGroup manager options and assorted UI fixes
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Teable and HumHub?
Both compete on the same themes — permissions — within Collab. Teable is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 2.5), 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 Teable better than HumHub?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Teable is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 2.5), 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 Teable?
Top Teable alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Teable alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/teable for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to HumHub?
Top HumHub alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "HumHub alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/humhub for the full list with editorial commentary on each.