Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/iced-rs/iced/vs/storytold/photocraft
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/iced-rs/iced/vs/storytold/photocraft.md
Description: iced and photocraft share 7 technologies: Tokio, wgpu, winit, rfd, image, resvg, and log. Both are written in Rust.

# iced vs photocraft

iced and photocraft share 7 technologies: Tokio, wgpu, winit, rfd, image, resvg, and log. Both are written in Rust.

- [iced-rs/iced](https://seerepo.com/r/iced-rs/iced): A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
- [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: Tokio, wgpu, winit, rfd, image, resvg, log
- Only in iced: smol, two-face, tiny-skia, cosmic-text, lyon_path, kurbo, lyon, softbuffer, kamadak-exif, pulldown-cmark, qrcode, tracing
- Only in photocraft: objc2-app-kit, objc2-foundation, skrifa, parley, x11rb, muda, rmcp, roxmltree, jxl-oxide, plist, png, schemars

## Side by side

| | iced | photocraft |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 102,496 lines written, 280 code files | 860,770 lines written, 1,249 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and Cursor | 51.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, CodeRabbit, GitHub Copilot, and Devin |
| Activity | Last push November 1, 2026, 5,914 commits, 31,958 stars | Last push November 4, 2026, 6,289 commits, 76,898 stars |
| Tests | 15 test files. 15.4% 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, iced or photocraft?

photocraft, with 860,770 lines written; iced has 102,496.

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

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

photocraft, with 76,898 stars; iced has 31,958.

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

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

photocraft, with 825 test files; iced has 15.

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

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

photocraft: its last push was on November 4, 2026, and iced's on November 1, 2026.

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

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

photocraft: an AI signed 51.1% of its commits, with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, CodeRabbit, GitHub Copilot, and Devin; in iced, 0.1%.

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

## Sources

- iced-rs/iced: Read on November 7, 2026, at commit 8ff48c4 (https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/tree/8ff48c42b0d5188223501ea1ccc506fd5beaf36a)
- 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.