Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/gchq/CyberChef/vs/TriliumNext/Trilium
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/gchq/CyberChef/vs/TriliumNext/Trilium.md
Description: CyberChef and Trilium share 7 technologies: CodeMirror, D3, tesseract.js, jimp, highlight.js, js-yaml, and dompurify. CyberChef is written in JavaScript and Trilium in TypeScript.

# CyberChef vs Trilium

CyberChef and Trilium share 7 technologies: CodeMirror, D3, tesseract.js, jimp, highlight.js, js-yaml, and dompurify. CyberChef is written in JavaScript and Trilium in TypeScript.

- [gchq/CyberChef](https://seerepo.com/r/gchq/CyberChef): The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis
- [TriliumNext/Trilium](https://seerepo.com/r/TriliumNext/Trilium): Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: CodeMirror, D3, tesseract.js, jimp, highlight.js, js-yaml, dompurify
- Only in CyberChef: bson, sortablejs, cli-progress, split.js, bcryptjs, jsonwebtoken, otpauth, @xmldom/xmldom, handlebars, jsqr, markdown-it
- Only in Trilium: Preact, reveal.js, Vite, Express, Electron, SQLite, MCP, Anthropic, WXT, OpenAI, Bootstrap, lightningcss, MapLibre, Excalidraw, tabulator-tables, @floating-ui/dom, react-zoom-pan-pinch, fullcalendar, Mermaid, gridstack, react-window, boxicons, marked, katex, qrcode-generator, sherpa-onnx-node, gifenc, pngjs, opentype.js, ttf2woff2, appcompat, coordinatorlayout, androidx.core:core-splashscreen, express-session, helmet, openid-client, node-html-parser, @hyzyla/pdfium, EJS, is-svg, officeparser, unpdf, Zod, @catppuccin/codemirror, @lezer/highlight, Replit, codemirror-lang-elixir, codemirror-lang-hcl, ssddanbrown, exceljs, numfmt, pdfjs-dist, ai, ai-sdk, OpenRouter, sanitize-filename, xml2js, @braintree/sanitize-url, sanitize-html, sax, turndown

## Side by side

| | CyberChef | Trilium |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 137,353 lines written, 641 code files | 855,748 lines written, 1,930 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With GitHub Copilot and Claude Code | 14.7% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, and Amp |
| Activity | Last push November 6, 2026, 3,586 commits, 36,335 stars | Last push November 6, 2026, 36,283 commits, 38,725 stars |
| Tests | 233 test files. 3.3% of its code files have a test that imports them | 1,553 test files. 73.1% 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, CyberChef or Trilium?

Trilium, with 855,748 lines written; CyberChef has 137,353.

The proof: [TriliumNext/Trilium's code at commit 7f12054](https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium/tree/7f120547683e6ff21cdb34b0763dde07b41ea1d4)

### Which has more GitHub stars, CyberChef or Trilium?

Trilium, with 38,725 stars; CyberChef has 36,335.

The proof: [TriliumNext/Trilium on GitHub](https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium)

### Which has more tests, CyberChef or Trilium?

Trilium, with 1,553 test files; CyberChef has 233.

The proof: [TriliumNext/Trilium's code at commit 7f12054](https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium/tree/7f120547683e6ff21cdb34b0763dde07b41ea1d4)

### Which was updated more recently, CyberChef or Trilium?

Both got their last push on November 6, 2026.

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

### Which has more commits signed by AI, CyberChef or Trilium?

Trilium: an AI signed 14.7% of its commits, with Claude Code, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, and Amp; in CyberChef, 0.1%.

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

## Sources

- gchq/CyberChef: Read on November 7, 2026, at commit d4d96c6 (https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/tree/d4d96c6c3d2597fef836d81bfc04617d97c681a5)
- TriliumNext/Trilium: Read on November 6, 2026, at commit 7f12054 (https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium/tree/7f120547683e6ff21cdb34b0763dde07b41ea1d4)

## 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.