Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/badges/shields/vs/immich-app/immich
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/badges/shields/vs/immich-app/immich.md
Description: shields and immich share 3 technologies: Postgres, Simple Icons, and js-yaml. shields is written in JavaScript and immich in TypeScript.

# shields vs immich

shields and immich share 3 technologies: Postgres, Simple Icons, and js-yaml. shields is written in JavaScript and immich in TypeScript.

- [badges/shields](https://seerepo.com/r/badges/shields): Concise, consistent, and legible badges in SVG and raster format
- [immich-app/immich](https://seerepo.com/r/immich-app/immich): High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Postgres, Simple Icons, js-yaml
- Only in shields: Sentry, is-svg, @xmldom/xmldom, fast-xml-parser, joi, prom-client
- Only in immich: Flutter, auto_route, flutter_hooks, Jetpack Compose, FastAPI, sqlite3, sqlite3_connection_pool, quick_cache, SQLite, SQLiteData, drift_sqlite_async, sqlite_async, flutter_secure_storage, Hugging Face, lifecycle-runtime-ktx, uvicorn, React, NestJS, @nestjs/bullmq, Redis, bullmq, @opentelemetry/instrumentation-ioredis, Svelte, SvelteKit, Vite, dynamic_color, material_color_utilities, com.google.android.material:material, immich_ui, scrollable_positioned_list, maplibre_gl, fluttertoast, Glance, crop_image, native_video_player, flutter_local_notifications, home_widget, octo_image, pinput, Rich, scroll_date_picker, sliver_tools, drift, credentials-play-services-auth, local_auth, androidx.credentials:credentials, flutter_web_auth_2, Immich, ONNX, rapidocr, tokenizers, Glide, pillow-jxl-plugin, pillow, photo_manager, image_picker, jxl, flutter_svg, mp4parse, pic-scale, yuv, Pydantic, Fastlane, logging, Gunicorn, cli-progress, yaml, Tailwind CSS, tailwindcss-preset-email, kysely, nestjs-kysely, kysely-postgres-js, jose, @simplewebauthn/server, helmet, bcrypt, jsonwebtoken, openid-client, react-email, sanitize-filename, exiftool-vendored, sharp, handlebars, nodemailer, thumbhash, Zod, validator, nestjs-otel, opentelemetry, tailwind-variants, tailwind-merge, @futo-org/backups-orchestrator-ui, media-chrome, svelte-gestures, @zoom-image/core, photo-sphere-viewer, fabric, hls-video-element, MapLibre, svelte-confetti, svelte-jsoneditor, svelte-maplibre, tabbable, uplot, @mdi/js, @simplewebauthn/browser, dom-to-image, qrcode

## Side by side

| | shields | immich |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 99,755 lines written, 1,183 code files | 334,388 lines written, 1,953 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Cursor and GitHub Copilot | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Jules |
| Activity | Last push November 7, 2026, 8,709 commits, 27,370 stars | Last push November 12, 2026, 11,507 commits, 118,913 stars |
| Tests | 200 test files. 15.8% of its code files have a test that imports them | 570 test files. 27.9% 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, shields or immich?

immich, with 334,388 lines written; shields has 99,755.

The proof: [immich-app/immich's code at commit dbe5e22](https://github.com/immich-app/immich/tree/dbe5e229d008404d7775d6fcce50bdb1dd98fb9b)

### Which has more GitHub stars, shields or immich?

immich, with 118,913 stars; shields has 27,370.

The proof: [immich-app/immich on GitHub](https://github.com/immich-app/immich)

### Which has more tests, shields or immich?

immich, with 570 test files; shields has 200.

The proof: [immich-app/immich's code at commit dbe5e22](https://github.com/immich-app/immich/tree/dbe5e229d008404d7775d6fcce50bdb1dd98fb9b)

### Which was updated more recently, shields or immich?

immich: its last push was on November 12, 2026, and shields's on November 7, 2026.

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

### Which has more commits signed by AI, shields or immich?

In both, an AI signed 0.1% of their commits.

## Sources

- badges/shields: Read on November 8, 2026, at commit 4c8296c (https://github.com/badges/shields/tree/4c8296cf8286a33250b6af7eef07e463b721a510)
- immich-app/immich: Read on November 12, 2026, at commit dbe5e22 (https://github.com/immich-app/immich/tree/dbe5e229d008404d7775d6fcce50bdb1dd98fb9b)

## 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.