Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/vs/zed-industries/zed
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/vs/zed-industries/zed.md
Description: AppFlowy and zed share 7 technologies: Tokio, console, pulldown-cmark, schemars, tracing, log, and tracing-subscriber. AppFlowy is written in Dart and zed in Rust.

# AppFlowy vs zed

AppFlowy and zed share 7 technologies: Tokio, console, pulldown-cmark, schemars, tracing, log, and tracing-subscriber. AppFlowy is written in Dart and zed in Rust.

- [AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy](https://seerepo.com/r/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy): Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data. The leading open source Notion alternative.
- [zed-industries/zed](https://seerepo.com/r/zed-industries/zed): Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Tokio, console, pulldown-cmark, schemars, tracing, log, tracing-subscriber
- Only in AppFlowy: Flutter, rusqlite, shared_preferences, SQLite, moka, plugin_platform_interface, google_fonts, desktop_drop, window_manager, animations, auto_size_text_field, flex_color_picker, flutter_staggered_grid_view, percent_indicator, diesel, diesel_migrations, hmac, pbkdf2, image_picker, csv, file_picker, scraper, flutter_svg, html, xml, zip, validator, console-subscriber, tracing-appender, tracing-core
- Only in zed: axum, tower, aws-sdk-s3, lru, Postgres, sqlx, AWS S3, GitHub, gpui, gpui_tokio, smol, objc2-foundation, objc2-app-kit, tiny_http, core-services, swash, gpui_platform, accesskit, wgpu, objc2-quartz-core, objc2-ui-kit, x11rb, core-graphics, wayland-client, taffy, xkbcommon, cosmic-text, dialoguer, jsonwebtoken, rpassword, markdown, image, quick-xml, html5ever, linkify, handlebars, plist, resvg, ttf-parser, jsonschema, env_logger

## Side by side

| | AppFlowy | zed |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 412,249 lines written, 2,281 code files | 1,835,785 lines written, 1,779 code files |
| Who writes it | 0% of its commits signed by AI | 0.5% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Amp, Factory, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI |
| Activity | Last push November 2, 2026, 6,367 commits, 78,194 stars | Last push November 4, 2026, 37,547 commits, 92,679 stars |
| Tests | 423 test files. 18% of its code files have a test that imports them | 140 test files. 18.1% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, AppFlowy or zed?

zed, with 1,835,785 lines written; AppFlowy has 412,249.

The proof: [zed-industries/zed's code at commit e21ff1b](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/e21ff1b368b074586e4dae0d9bbf15d5dd8a1476)

### Which has more GitHub stars, AppFlowy or zed?

zed, with 92,679 stars; AppFlowy has 78,194.

The proof: [zed-industries/zed on GitHub](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed)

### Which has more tests, AppFlowy or zed?

AppFlowy, with 423 test files; zed has 140.

The proof: [AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy's code at commit 8fcee27](https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/tree/8fcee27d9bd93aad4ee0191d5d8d915d6a9a4e93)

### Which was updated more recently, AppFlowy or zed?

zed: its last push was on November 4, 2026, and AppFlowy's on November 2, 2026.

The proof: [zed-industries/zed's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, AppFlowy or zed?

zed: an AI signed 0.5% of its commits, with Claude Code, Amp, Factory, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in zed-industries/zed](https://seerepo.com/r/zed-industries/zed/ai)

## Sources

- AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit 8fcee27 (https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/tree/8fcee27d9bd93aad4ee0191d5d8d915d6a9a4e93)
- zed-industries/zed: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit e21ff1b (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/e21ff1b368b074586e4dae0d9bbf15d5dd8a1476)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.