Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/chatboxai/chatbox/vs/nicobailon/visual-explainer
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/chatboxai/chatbox/vs/nicobailon/visual-explainer.md
Description: chatbox and visual-explainer share 3 technologies: MCP, pptxgenjs, and Zod. chatbox is written in TypeScript and visual-explainer in JavaScript.

# chatbox vs visual-explainer

chatbox and visual-explainer share 3 technologies: MCP, pptxgenjs, and Zod. chatbox is written in TypeScript and visual-explainer in JavaScript.

- [chatboxai/chatbox](https://seerepo.com/r/chatboxai/chatbox): Powerful AI Client
- [nicobailon/visual-explainer](https://seerepo.com/r/nicobailon/visual-explainer): Agent skill that generates rich HTML pages or slide decks for diagrams, diff reviews, plan audits, data tables, and project recaps

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: MCP, pptxgenjs, Zod
- Only in chatbox: React, TanStack, Vite, localforage, @capacitor-community/sqlite, @mastra/libsql, SQLite, @epic-web/cachified, electron-store, store, Sentry, OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Electron, @capacitor/core, Tailwind CSS, tailwind-merge, Mantine, eBay, MUI, sonner, vaul, Radix UI, react-photoswipe-gallery, react-virtuoso, capacitor, photoswipe, @floating-ui/dom, canvas-confetti, cmdk, dnd-kit, mark.js, Mermaid, react-dropzone, react-hotkeys-hook, react-zoom-pan-pinch, @tabler/icons-react, Lucide, @mui/icons-material, @lobehub/icons, ai, ai-sdk, mastra, cohere-ai, ai-retry, js-tiktoken, OpenRouter, linkedom, sanitize-filename, exceljs, pdfjs-dist, react-markdown, @braintree/sanitize-url, @mozilla/readability, epub, gray-matter, officeparser, rehype-katex, remark-breaks, remark-gfm, remark-math, shiki, unist-util-visit, electron-log, @cfworker/json-schema
- Only in visual-explainer: @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent, node-html-parser

## Side by side

| | chatbox | visual-explainer |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 393,183 lines written, 1,462 code files | 5,062 lines written, 19 code files |
| Who writes it | 6.3% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and CodeRabbit | 4.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code |
| Activity | Last push November 12, 2026, 1,872 commits, 42,325 stars | Last push November 5, 2026, 97 commits, 10,999 stars |
| Tests | 806 test files. 58.5% of its code files have a test that imports them | 7 test files. 15.8% 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, chatbox or visual-explainer?

chatbox, with 393,183 lines written; visual-explainer has 5,062.

The proof: [chatboxai/chatbox's code at commit 75bb935](https://github.com/chatboxai/chatbox/tree/75bb9355f826f9070ff5c53527674aab93eb8b9f)

### Which has more GitHub stars, chatbox or visual-explainer?

chatbox, with 42,325 stars; visual-explainer has 10,999.

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

### Which has more tests, chatbox or visual-explainer?

chatbox, with 806 test files; visual-explainer has 7.

The proof: [chatboxai/chatbox's code at commit 75bb935](https://github.com/chatboxai/chatbox/tree/75bb9355f826f9070ff5c53527674aab93eb8b9f)

### Which was updated more recently, chatbox or visual-explainer?

chatbox: its last push was on November 12, 2026, and visual-explainer's on November 5, 2026.

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

### Which has more commits signed by AI, chatbox or visual-explainer?

chatbox: an AI signed 6.3% of its commits, with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and CodeRabbit; in visual-explainer, 4.1%.

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

## Sources

- chatboxai/chatbox: Read on November 13, 2026, at commit 75bb935 (https://github.com/chatboxai/chatbox/tree/75bb9355f826f9070ff5c53527674aab93eb8b9f)
- nicobailon/visual-explainer: Read on November 12, 2026, at commit 9d5f880 (https://github.com/nicobailon/visual-explainer/tree/9d5f880b7e8e0a9a80c890b8e1bb6918b68481ad)

## 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.