Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/CherryHQ/cherry-studio/vs/huggingface/chat-ui
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/CherryHQ/cherry-studio/vs/huggingface/chat-ui.md
Description: cherry-studio and chat-ui share 9 technologies: MCP, OpenAI, Hugging Face, Tailwind CSS, file-type, sharp, htmlparser2, Zod, and katex. Both are written in TypeScript.

# cherry-studio vs chat-ui

cherry-studio and chat-ui share 9 technologies: MCP, OpenAI, Hugging Face, Tailwind CSS, file-type, sharp, htmlparser2, Zod, and katex. Both are written in TypeScript.

- [CherryHQ/cherry-studio](https://seerepo.com/r/CherryHQ/cherry-studio): Your AI workspace for models, agents, and productivity.
- [huggingface/chat-ui](https://seerepo.com/r/huggingface/chat-ui): The open source codebase powering HuggingChat

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: MCP, OpenAI, Hugging Face, Tailwind CSS, file-type, sharp, htmlparser2, Zod, katex
- Only in cherry-studio: Vite, React, TanStack, SQLite, lru-cache, dexie, electron-store, @aws-sdk/lib-storage, sqlite-vec, Anthropic, Sentry, Perplexity, PostHog, Electron, elysia, @earendil-works/chord, @electron-toolkit/preload, quickjs-wasi, grammy, quick-lru, PostCSS, tailwind-merge, tiptap, motion, React Hook Form, @tanstack/react-virtual, react-spinners, react-hotkeys-hook, dnd-kit, react-error-boundary, echarts, @uiw/react-codemirror, xyflow, @floating-ui/dom, virtua, emoji-picker-react, @dagrejs/dagre, @react-aria/live-announcer, @viz-js/viz, ansi-to-react, 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, remark-parse, yaml, markdown-it, qrcode.react, strict-url-sanitise, turndown, @firecrawl/anydoc, dompurify, remark-gfm, @vectorstores/readers, fast-xml-parser, officeparser, remove-markdown, @e965/xlsx, @lezer/markdown, @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-parse, qrcode, remark-math, remark-stringify, telegram-markdown-v2, word-extractor, @hookform/resolvers, opentelemetry, winston, winston-daily-rotate-file, @agentclientprotocol/sdk, @earendil-works/pi-ai, OpenRouter, pdfjs-dist, @aiden0z/pptx-renderer, fast-formula-parser, docx-preview, exceljs, numfmt, rtf.js, @ai-sdk/provider-utils, class-variance-authority, @uiw/codemirror-themes-all, Radix UI, CodeMirror, uiw, @pierre/highlights, @lezer/highlight, @mermanjs/web-render, @viz-js/lang-dot, cmdk, react-day-picker, react-dropzone, react-resizable-panels, vaul, remark-definition-list, remark-github-blockquote-alert, remark-mark-highlight
- Only in chat-ui: SvelteKit, Svelte, MongoDB, bson-objectid, @slack/bolt, polka, bits-ui, web-haptics, openid-client, @aws-sdk/credential-providers, isomorphic-dompurify, marked, @resvg/resvg-js, satori, handlebars, highlight.js, hyparquet, parquetjs, remend, satori-html, pino, prom-client

## Side by side

| | cherry-studio | chat-ui |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 1,761,996 lines written, 6,246 code files | 179,282 lines written, 657 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 | 7.5% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Cursor, and Jules |
| Activity | Last push November 13, 2026, 10,238 commits, 53,467 stars | Last push November 12, 2026, 2,325 commits, 11,031 stars |
| Tests | 3,256 test files. 47.2% of its code files have a test that imports them | 302 test files. 55.4% 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 chat-ui?

cherry-studio, with 1,761,996 lines written; chat-ui has 179,282.

The proof: [CherryHQ/cherry-studio's code at commit 93870b1](https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio/tree/93870b194c6e1986151dac9a5af1750772193a26)

### Which has more GitHub stars, cherry-studio or chat-ui?

cherry-studio, with 53,467 stars; chat-ui has 11,031.

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

### Which has more tests, cherry-studio or chat-ui?

cherry-studio, with 3,256 test files; chat-ui has 302.

The proof: [CherryHQ/cherry-studio's code at commit 93870b1](https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio/tree/93870b194c6e1986151dac9a5af1750772193a26)

### Which was updated more recently, cherry-studio or chat-ui?

cherry-studio: its last push was on November 13, 2026, and chat-ui's on November 12, 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 chat-ui?

cherry-studio: an AI signed 11.9% of its commits, with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Factory, Jules, Amp, Qwen Code, and Codex; in chat-ui, 7.5%.

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 13, 2026, at commit 93870b1 (https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio/tree/93870b194c6e1986151dac9a5af1750772193a26)
- huggingface/chat-ui: Read on November 12, 2026, at commit 4e0a95b (https://github.com/huggingface/chat-ui/tree/4e0a95b6a6c80d04d788f1bbad72a1e4713413b9)

## 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.
