Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/ether/etherpad/vs/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/ether/etherpad/vs/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.md
Description: etherpad and Rocket.Chat share 9 technologies: Vite, React, react-router-dom, Express, React Hook Form, express-session, jose, nodemailer, and prom-client. Both are written in TypeScript.

# etherpad vs Rocket.Chat

etherpad and Rocket.Chat share 9 technologies: Vite, React, react-router-dom, Express, React Hook Form, express-session, jose, nodemailer, and prom-client. Both are written in TypeScript.

- [ether/etherpad](https://seerepo.com/r/ether/etherpad): Etherpad: A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor.
- [RocketChat/Rocket.Chat](https://seerepo.com/r/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat): The Secure CommsOS™ for mission-critical operations

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Vite, React, react-router-dom, Express, React Hook Form, express-session, jose, nodemailer, prom-client
- Only in etherpad: lru-cache, Radix UI, Lucide, oidc-provider, htmlparser2, EJS, entities, html-to-docx, mammoth, pdfkit, rehype
- Only in Rocket.Chat: MongoDB, bson, ldapjs, aws-sdk, Google Cloud, localforage, AWS S3, Hono, connect, @slack/bolt, polka, Preact, history, GitHub, LiveKit, stylis, react-virtuoso, react-aria, Chart.js, virtua, nivo, react-error-boundary, codemirror, swagger-ui-express, Swiper, emojibase-data, Passport, bcrypt, @node-oauth/oauth2-server, passport-apple, passport-github2, passport-google-oauth20, dompurify, sharp, @xmldom/xmldom, mailparser, csv-parse, file-type, highlight.js, @react-pdf/renderer, he, is-svg, json-2-csv, juice, marked, sanitize-html, Zod, Ajv, cron-validator, @bugsnag/js, pino, reactflow, @hello-pangea/dnd, @lezer/highlight, react-split-pane, Cheerio, typia, css-mediaquery, style-dictionary, react-stately, katex, @hono/node-server, emoji-mart, mdast-util-to-string, remark-parse, remark-stringify, unified, ajv-formats, opentelemetry, overlayscrollbars-react, overlayscrollbars, re-resizable, @react-aria/focus

## Side by side

| | etherpad | Rocket.Chat |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 97,129 lines written, 276 code files | 937,658 lines written, 8,385 code files |
| Who writes it | 3.8% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and GitHub Copilot | 0.9% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, CodeRabbit, Cursor, and Devin |
| Activity | Last push November 6, 2026, 8,883 commits, 18,621 stars | Last push November 6, 2026, 25,061 commits, 46,374 stars |
| Tests | 294 test files. 40.6% of its code files have a test that imports them | 2,056 test files. 17% 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, etherpad or Rocket.Chat?

Rocket.Chat, with 937,658 lines written; etherpad has 97,129.

The proof: [RocketChat/Rocket.Chat's code at commit 70825b1](https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/tree/70825b185fb65335383ad3e491be29883047174d)

### Which has more GitHub stars, etherpad or Rocket.Chat?

Rocket.Chat, with 46,374 stars; etherpad has 18,621.

The proof: [RocketChat/Rocket.Chat on GitHub](https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat)

### Which has more tests, etherpad or Rocket.Chat?

Rocket.Chat, with 2,056 test files; etherpad has 294.

The proof: [RocketChat/Rocket.Chat's code at commit 70825b1](https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/tree/70825b185fb65335383ad3e491be29883047174d)

### Which was updated more recently, etherpad or Rocket.Chat?

Both got their last push on November 6, 2026.

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

### Which has more commits signed by AI, etherpad or Rocket.Chat?

etherpad: an AI signed 3.8% of its commits, with Claude Code and GitHub Copilot; in Rocket.Chat, 0.9%.

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

## Sources

- ether/etherpad: Read on November 6, 2026, at commit 4aec490 (https://github.com/ether/etherpad/tree/4aec49099bd7dd97f1133a232f693a4080176a80)
- RocketChat/Rocket.Chat: Read on November 6, 2026, at commit 70825b1 (https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/tree/70825b185fb65335383ad3e491be29883047174d)

## 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.