Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/CherryHQ/cherry-studio/vs/element-hq/element-web
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/CherryHQ/cherry-studio/vs/element-hq/element-web.md
Description: cherry-studio and element-web share 16 technologies: Vite, React, TanStack, electron-store, Sentry, PostHog, Electron, motion, dnd-kit, yaml, katex, pdfjs-dist, qrcode, Zod, Radix UI, and react-resizable-panels. Both are written in TypeScript.

# cherry-studio vs element-web

cherry-studio and element-web share 16 technologies: Vite, React, TanStack, electron-store, Sentry, PostHog, Electron, motion, dnd-kit, yaml, katex, pdfjs-dist, qrcode, Zod, Radix UI, and react-resizable-panels. Both are written in TypeScript.

- [CherryHQ/cherry-studio](https://seerepo.com/r/CherryHQ/cherry-studio): Your AI workspace for models, agents, and productivity.
- [element-hq/element-web](https://seerepo.com/r/element-hq/element-web): A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Vite, React, TanStack, electron-store, Sentry, PostHog, Electron, motion, dnd-kit, yaml, katex, pdfjs-dist, qrcode, Zod, Radix UI, react-resizable-panels
- Only in cherry-studio: SQLite, lru-cache, dexie, @aws-sdk/lib-storage, sqlite-vec, MCP, OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, Perplexity, elysia, @earendil-works/chord, @electron-toolkit/preload, quickjs-wasi, grammy, quick-lru, Tailwind CSS, PostCSS, tailwind-merge, tiptap, React Hook Form, @tanstack/react-virtual, react-spinners, react-hotkeys-hook, react-error-boundary, echarts, @uiw/react-codemirror, xyflow, @floating-ui/dom, virtua, emoji-picker-react, @dagrejs/dagre, @pierre/highlights, @react-aria/live-announcer, @viz-js/viz, ansi-to-react, CodeMirror, emoji-picker-element-data, og-crd, react-player, Lucide, Iconify, @iconify-json/material-icon-theme, Drizzle, @elysia/bearer, ai, ai-sdk, cherrystudio, earendil-works, @vectorstores/core, tesseract.js, @napi-rs/system-ocr, @paddleocr/api-sdk, ollama-ai-provider-v2, partial-json, @opeoginni/github-copilot-openai-compatible, ai-retry, gpt-tokenizer, voyage-ai-provider, unified, streamdown, unist-util-visit, file-type, remark-parse, sharp, markdown-it, qrcode.react, strict-url-sanitise, turndown, @firecrawl/anydoc, @napi-rs/canvas, dompurify, htmlparser2, remark-gfm, @vectorstores/readers, fast-xml-parser, officeparser, remove-markdown, @e965/xlsx, @mozilla/readability, @tiptap/markdown, @tryfabric/martian, Cheerio, docx, epub, gray-matter, html-to-image, html-to-text, mdast-util-from-markdown, mediabunny, micromark-util-types, pdf-lib, pdf-parse, remark-math, remark-stringify, telegram-markdown-v2, vfile-location, word-extractor, @hookform/resolvers, typebox, opentelemetry, winston, winston-daily-rotate-file, @agentclientprotocol/sdk, @earendil-works/pi-ai, OpenRouter, @aiden0z/pptx-renderer, fast-formula-parser, docx-preview, exceljs, numfmt, rtf.js, @ai-sdk/provider-utils, class-variance-authority, @uiw/codemirror-themes-all, uiw, @lezer/highlight, @mermanjs/web-render, @viz-js/lang-dot, cmdk, react-day-picker, react-dropzone, vaul, rehype-parse, rehype-stringify, remark-definition-list, remark-github-blockquote-alert, remark-mark-highlight
- Only in element-web: Express, classnames, fontsource, MapLibre, react-focus-lock, re-resizable, react-beautiful-dnd, react-blurhash, react-transition-group, @peculiar/webcrypto, zxcvbn-ts, html-react-parser, escape-html, highlight.js, html-entities, blurhash, commonmark, domutils, jsqr, png-chunks-extract, sanitize-filename, sanitize-html, styled-components, react-virtuoso, linkify-react, linkify-html

## Side by side

| | cherry-studio | element-web |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 1,788,458 lines written, 6,208 code files | 500,790 lines written, 1,853 code files |
| Who writes it | 11.9% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Factory, Jules, Amp, Qwen Code, and Codex | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and GitHub Copilot |
| Activity | Last push November 10, 2026, 10,134 commits, 53,389 stars | Last push November 9, 2026, 53,010 commits, 13,642 stars |
| Tests | 3,273 test files. 48% of its code files have a test that imports them | 1,252 test files. 59% 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, cherry-studio or element-web?

cherry-studio, with 1,788,458 lines written; element-web has 500,790.

The proof: [CherryHQ/cherry-studio's code at commit 321e3dd](https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio/tree/321e3dda993aea22bb47360d29cf9f00c1b8aee3)

### Which has more GitHub stars, cherry-studio or element-web?

cherry-studio, with 53,389 stars; element-web has 13,642.

The proof: [CherryHQ/cherry-studio on GitHub](https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio)

### Which has more tests, cherry-studio or element-web?

cherry-studio, with 3,273 test files; element-web has 1,252.

The proof: [CherryHQ/cherry-studio's code at commit 321e3dd](https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio/tree/321e3dda993aea22bb47360d29cf9f00c1b8aee3)

### Which was updated more recently, cherry-studio or element-web?

cherry-studio: its last push was on November 10, 2026, and element-web's on November 9, 2026.

The proof: [CherryHQ/cherry-studio's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, cherry-studio or element-web?

cherry-studio: an AI signed 11.9% of its commits, with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Factory, Jules, Amp, Qwen Code, and Codex; in element-web, 0.1%.

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

## Sources

- CherryHQ/cherry-studio: Read on November 10, 2026, at commit 321e3dd (https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio/tree/321e3dda993aea22bb47360d29cf9f00c1b8aee3)
- element-hq/element-web: Read on November 9, 2026, at commit abe9fbc (https://github.com/element-hq/element-web/tree/abe9fbc07bf3a57265b1d3f25ebe917e15a0c4f4)

## 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.
