Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/emilk/egui/vs/storytold/photocraft
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/emilk/egui/vs/storytold/photocraft.md
Description: egui and photocraft share 9 technologies: objc2-app-kit, objc2-foundation, skrifa, rfd, winit, wgpu, image, resvg, and log. Both are written in Rust.

# egui vs photocraft

egui and photocraft share 9 technologies: objc2-app-kit, objc2-foundation, skrifa, rfd, winit, wgpu, image, resvg, 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/photocraft](https://seerepo.com/r/storytold/photocraft): PhotoCraft: An open-source, photo editor written by scratch in pure Rust

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: objc2-app-kit, objc2-foundation, skrifa, rfd, winit, wgpu, image, resvg, log
- Only in egui: eframe, egui, fontique, egui_extras, egui-wgpu, egui-winit, accesskit, glow, accesskit_winit, glutin, glutin-winit, objc2-ui-kit, smithay-clipboard, vello_cpu, harfrust, mime_guess2, env_logger
- Only in photocraft: Tokio, parley, x11rb, muda, rmcp, roxmltree, jxl-oxide, plist, png, schemars

## Side by side

| | egui | photocraft |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 146,979 lines written, 346 code files | 860,770 lines written, 1,249 code files |
| Who writes it | 2.8% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and GitHub Copilot | 51.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, CodeRabbit, GitHub Copilot, and Devin |
| Activity | Last push November 6, 2026, 4,626 commits, 32,091 stars | Last push November 4, 2026, 6,289 commits, 76,898 stars |
| Tests | 57 test files. 18.8% of its code files have a test that imports them | 825 test files. 62.1% 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 photocraft?

photocraft, with 860,770 lines written; egui has 146,979.

The proof: [storytold/photocraft's code at commit 8e9277e](https://github.com/storytold/photocraft/tree/8e9277e20e8d5185ed4259908022a719a647237e)

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

photocraft, with 76,898 stars; egui has 32,091.

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

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

photocraft, with 825 test files; egui has 57.

The proof: [storytold/photocraft's code at commit 8e9277e](https://github.com/storytold/photocraft/tree/8e9277e20e8d5185ed4259908022a719a647237e)

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

egui: its last push was on November 6, 2026, and photocraft's on November 4, 2026.

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

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

photocraft: an AI signed 51.1% of its commits, with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, CodeRabbit, GitHub Copilot, and Devin; in egui, 2.8%.

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

## Sources

- emilk/egui: Read on November 7, 2026, at commit 91b5712 (https://github.com/emilk/egui/tree/91b5712dd61765c337591ae25f07acee8fee3d52)
- storytold/photocraft: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit 8e9277e (https://github.com/storytold/photocraft/tree/8e9277e20e8d5185ed4259908022a719a647237e)

## 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.