Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/agalwood/Motrix/vs/cline/cline
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/agalwood/Motrix/vs/cline/cline.md
Description: Motrix and cline share 15 technologies: Vite, React, SQLite, Tailwind CSS, class-variance-authority, next-themes, tailwind-merge, Base UI, xyflow, recharts, cmdk, Lucide, js-yaml, Zod, and pino. Both are written in TypeScript.

# Motrix vs cline

Motrix and cline share 15 technologies: Vite, React, SQLite, Tailwind CSS, class-variance-authority, next-themes, tailwind-merge, Base UI, xyflow, recharts, cmdk, Lucide, js-yaml, Zod, and pino. Both are written in TypeScript.

- [agalwood/Motrix](https://seerepo.com/r/agalwood/Motrix): A full-featured download manager.
- [cline/cline](https://seerepo.com/r/cline/cline): Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Vite, React, SQLite, Tailwind CSS, class-variance-authority, next-themes, tailwind-merge, Base UI, xyflow, recharts, cmdk, Lucide, js-yaml, Zod, pino
- Only in Motrix: React Router, Electron, Fastify, React Hook Form, elkjs, TanStack, @resvg/resvg-wasm, @hookform/resolvers, Ajv, pino-pretty, hkdf, hmac
- Only in cline: Anthropic, PostHog, MCP, OpenAI, OpenTUI, @clack/prompts, chat, @agentclientprotocol/sdk, yaml, @shikijs/themes, Radix UI, sonner, ansi-to-react, embla-carousel-react, media-chrome, motion, react-jsx-parser, use-stick-to-bottom, ai, tokenlens, shiki, streamdown, jwt-decode, Cheerio, exceljs, mammoth, pdf-parse, turndown, opentelemetry, styled-components, HeroUI, react-virtuoso, Mermaid, react-textarea-autosize, dompurify, react-markdown, rehype-highlight, unist-util-visit, marked, rehype-parse, remark-gfm, remark-stringify, unified, skills, ai-sdk, @opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node, langfuse

## Side by side

| | Motrix | cline |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 594,561 lines written, 1,408 code files | 888,033 lines written, 2,295 code files |
| Who writes it | 0% of its commits signed by AI | 2.2% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Codex |
| Activity | Last push November 5, 2026, 1,415 commits, 57,835 stars | Last push November 5, 2026, 7,646 commits, 71,315 stars |
| Tests | 1,091 test files. 70.4% of its code files have a test that imports them | 1,079 test files. 46.8% 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, Motrix or cline?

cline, with 888,033 lines written; Motrix has 594,561.

The proof: [cline/cline's code at commit d3ecc48](https://github.com/cline/cline/tree/d3ecc4890e8f9bcb77182b96c77fa90575e8e145)

### Which has more GitHub stars, Motrix or cline?

cline, with 71,315 stars; Motrix has 57,835.

The proof: [cline/cline on GitHub](https://github.com/cline/cline)

### Which has more tests, Motrix or cline?

Motrix, with 1,091 test files; cline has 1,079.

The proof: [agalwood/Motrix's code at commit a45a729](https://github.com/agalwood/Motrix/tree/a45a729e985446a936167106af6b4173f06116aa)

### Which was updated more recently, Motrix or cline?

Both got their last push on November 5, 2026.

The proof: [agalwood/Motrix's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/agalwood/Motrix/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, Motrix or cline?

cline: an AI signed 2.2% of its commits, with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Codex.

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

## Sources

- agalwood/Motrix: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit a45a729 (https://github.com/agalwood/Motrix/tree/a45a729e985446a936167106af6b4173f06116aa)
- cline/cline: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit d3ecc48 (https://github.com/cline/cline/tree/d3ecc4890e8f9bcb77182b96c77fa90575e8e145)

## 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.