Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/emilk/egui/vs/storytold/lightcraft
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/emilk/egui/vs/storytold/lightcraft.md
Description: egui and lightcraft share 11 technologies: eframe, egui, objc2-app-kit, objc2-foundation, egui_extras, rfd, winit, wgpu, image, harfrust, and log. Both are written in Rust.

# egui vs lightcraft

egui and lightcraft share 11 technologies: eframe, egui, objc2-app-kit, objc2-foundation, egui_extras, rfd, winit, wgpu, image, harfrust, and log. Both are written in Rust.

- [emilk/egui](https://seerepo.com/r/emilk/egui): egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
- [storytold/lightcraft](https://seerepo.com/r/storytold/lightcraft): LightCraft: An open-source non-destructive photo editor written by scratch in pure Rust

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: eframe, egui, objc2-app-kit, objc2-foundation, egui_extras, rfd, winit, wgpu, image, harfrust, log
- Only in egui: skrifa, fontique, egui-wgpu, egui-winit, accesskit, glow, accesskit_winit, glutin, glutin-winit, objc2-ui-kit, smithay-clipboard, vello_cpu, resvg, mime_guess2, env_logger
- Only in lightcraft: ab_glyph, craft-ui, craft-window, muda, candle-core, candle-nn, heic-rs, jpeg-encoder, quick-xml, zune-core, zune-jpeg, image-webp, jpeg-decoder, jxl-oxide, png, rav1e, tiff

## Side by side

| | egui | lightcraft |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 146,979 lines written, 346 code files | 396,904 lines written, 619 code files |
| Who writes it | 2.8% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and GitHub Copilot | 71.9% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and CodeRabbit |
| Activity | Last push November 6, 2026, 4,626 commits, 32,091 stars | Last push November 8, 2026, 3,171 commits, 15,658 stars |
| Tests | 57 test files. 18.8% of its code files have a test that imports them | 351 test files. 55.7% 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, egui or lightcraft?

lightcraft, with 396,904 lines written; egui has 146,979.

The proof: [storytold/lightcraft's code at commit b3b4998](https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/tree/b3b49987d4b2c99f582b80ae91b2ec42ab24d14e)

### Which has more GitHub stars, egui or lightcraft?

egui, with 32,091 stars; lightcraft has 15,658.

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

### Which has more tests, egui or lightcraft?

lightcraft, with 351 test files; egui has 57.

The proof: [storytold/lightcraft's code at commit b3b4998](https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/tree/b3b49987d4b2c99f582b80ae91b2ec42ab24d14e)

### Which was updated more recently, egui or lightcraft?

lightcraft: its last push was on November 8, 2026, and egui's on November 6, 2026.

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

### Which has more commits signed by AI, egui or lightcraft?

lightcraft: an AI signed 71.9% of its commits, with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and CodeRabbit; in egui, 2.8%.

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

## Sources

- emilk/egui: Read on November 7, 2026, at commit 91b5712 (https://github.com/emilk/egui/tree/91b5712dd61765c337591ae25f07acee8fee3d52)
- storytold/lightcraft: Read on November 8, 2026, at commit b3b4998 (https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/tree/b3b49987d4b2c99f582b80ae91b2ec42ab24d14e)

## 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.