Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/block/buzz/vs/getlantern/lantern
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/block/buzz/vs/getlantern/lantern.md
Description: buzz and lantern share 8 technologies: Flutter, flutter_hooks, shared_preferences, flutter_secure_storage, cupertino_icons, image_picker, flutter_svg, and mobile_scanner. buzz is written in Rust and lantern in Dart.

# buzz vs lantern

buzz and lantern share 8 technologies: Flutter, flutter_hooks, shared_preferences, flutter_secure_storage, cupertino_icons, image_picker, flutter_svg, and mobile_scanner. buzz is written in Rust and lantern in Dart.

- [block/buzz](https://seerepo.com/r/block/buzz): A hive mind communication platform
- [getlantern/lantern](https://seerepo.com/r/getlantern/lantern): Open-source VPN for speed, privacy, and censorship circumvention. Free to download on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Flutter, flutter_hooks, shared_preferences, flutter_secure_storage, cupertino_icons, image_picker, flutter_svg, mobile_scanner
- Only in buzz: axum, tower, psycopg, sqlx, Redis, moka, rust-s3, lru, Tokio, Vite, React, Tauri, @tanstack/react-router, objc2-app-kit, objc2-foundation, rusqlite, SQLite, @tauri-apps/api, TanStack, appcompat, scrollable_positioned_list, video_player, highlight, jsonwebtoken, hmac, keyring, local_auth, ort-sys, rmcp, ort, tokenizers, image, infer, photo_manager, blurhash, imagesize, mp4, pulldown-cmark, quick-xml, symphonia, webp, Pydantic, schemars, tracing, metrics, tracing-subscriber, k8s-openapi, metrics-exporter-prometheus, tracing-opentelemetry, kube, OpenTelemetry, opentelemetry-otlp, Tailwind CSS, class-variance-authority, @fontsource-variable/inter, @fontsource/jetbrains-mono, tailwind-merge, sonner, motion, tiptap, Radix UI, emoji-mart, alacritty_terminal, virtua, tauri-plugin-dialog, dnd-kit, react-diff-view, @tanstack/react-virtual, @tauri-apps/plugin-notification, embla-carousel-react, notify-rust, objc2-user-notifications, react-day-picker, tauri-plugin-notification, tauri-plugin-window-state, tiptap-markdown, webkit2gtk, window-vibrancy, Lucide, ed25519-dalek, earshot, MediaPipe, yaml, png, react-markdown, shiki, mdast-util-from-markdown, plist, qrcode, remark-breaks, remark-gfm, upng-js, zip, Zod, tauri-apps
- Only in lantern: auto_route, Stripe, androidx.core:core-ktx, androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-livedata-ktx, google_fonts, shimmer, auto_size_text, window_manager, desktop_drop, flutter_inappwebview, desktop_webview_window, flutter_local_notifications, lottie, pinput, defusedxml, jinja2, howett.net/plist, qr_flutter

## Side by side

| | buzz | lantern |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 1,826,129 lines written, 3,453 code files | 145,355 lines written, 429 code files |
| Who writes it | 17.2% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Amp | 19.9% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and GitHub Copilot |
| Activity | Last push November 6, 2026, 3,348 commits, 36,778 stars | Last push November 7, 2026, 1,532 commits, 16,713 stars |
| Tests | 1,760 test files. 44.8% of its code files have a test that imports them | 233 test files. 46.4% 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, buzz or lantern?

buzz, with 1,826,129 lines written; lantern has 145,355.

The proof: [block/buzz's code at commit 96af488](https://github.com/block/buzz/tree/96af488d968a1ae9d961c2132bea27822735f8da)

### Which has more GitHub stars, buzz or lantern?

buzz, with 36,778 stars; lantern has 16,713.

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

### Which has more tests, buzz or lantern?

buzz, with 1,760 test files; lantern has 233.

The proof: [block/buzz's code at commit 96af488](https://github.com/block/buzz/tree/96af488d968a1ae9d961c2132bea27822735f8da)

### Which was updated more recently, buzz or lantern?

lantern: its last push was on November 7, 2026, and buzz's on November 6, 2026.

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

### Which has more commits signed by AI, buzz or lantern?

lantern: an AI signed 19.9% of its commits, with Claude Code and GitHub Copilot; in buzz, 17.2%.

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

## Sources

- block/buzz: Read on November 6, 2026, at commit 96af488 (https://github.com/block/buzz/tree/96af488d968a1ae9d961c2132bea27822735f8da)
- getlantern/lantern: Read on November 7, 2026, at commit 7b6858b (https://github.com/getlantern/lantern/tree/7b6858b7aebe02b9ae9d299858a99a3e3187976a)

## 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.