Liwan

Self-hosted, privacy-first web analytics in Rust that runs as a single binary, with a real-time dashboard and bot filtering on by default.

220 stars, 16 forks Rust On GitHub since June 2024

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What is Liwan?

Liwan shows your most visited pages, where visitors come from and how traffic changes over time, on a dashboard that updates in real time. Bots are filtered out by default, and no cookies or personal data are needed. It is written in Rust and ships as one executable for Linux or macOS, or in a container, which makes it light enough for the smallest servers.

Good fit if

  • You want a tiny, fast analytics server with nothing else to install.
  • You run a personal site or a few small projects.

Look elsewhere if

  • You need goals, events and team features: Plausible or Umami.
  • You want an established project with many contributors: Matomo.

Before you adopt it

Liwan is Apache-2.0 and free. It started in June 2024 and is the work of a single developer, so its future depends on one person.

Drafted with AI from the project's README and repository data, then checked against that data on 30 October 2026. Report a correction

Liwan health: is it still maintained?

62 of 100, actively developed

  • Activity
    58 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 29 October 2026.
    21 / 30
  • Contributors
    1 person wrote the 58 commits of the last 90 days; the most active wrote 100% of them.
    2 / 20
  • Releases
    4 releases in the last 12 months; the latest, liwan-v1.8.2, on 29 October 2026.
    16 / 20
  • Replies to issues
    Maintainers answered 79% of recent issues, with a median first reply after 17 hours.
    18 / 20
  • Security practices
    No OpenSSF Scorecard for this repository yet, so this part gets a neutral score.
    5 / 10

Read from GitHub on 1 November 2026. How the score works

Liwan license: is it open source?

Liwan uses Apache-2.0, an open-source license approved by the OSI.

  1. June 2024First published on GitHub.
  2. TodayApache-2.0.

How to run Liwan yourself

Docker
No Docker files in the repository
Compose file
None in the repository
Setup effort
Not rated: no compose file to judge from
Kubernetes
No Helm chart in the repository
Desktop and mobile
Builds for Linux, macOS, including ARM in GitHub releases
Interface languages
English only

Install instructions: liwan.dev or the README on GitHub.

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Questions about Liwan

Is Liwan open source?

Yes. Liwan is published under Apache-2.0, an OSI-approved open-source license.

Is Liwan still maintained?

Its health score is 62 of 100 (actively developed). It had 58 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 29 October 2026, and its latest release came out on 29 October 2026.

How do I run Liwan?

You can run it as an app for Linux, macOS, including ARM. The README on GitHub has the exact steps.

What are the alternatives to Liwan?

Close alternatives in the Web analytics category include Plausible, Matomo, OpenPanel.