Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/immich-app/immich/vs/rmyndharis/OpenWA
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/immich-app/immich/vs/rmyndharis/OpenWA.md
Description: immich and OpenWA share 11 technologies: Express, @nestjs/core, @nestjs/bullmq, Postgres, Redis, bullmq, NestJS, helmet, sharp, Zod, and qrcode. Both are written in TypeScript.

# immich vs OpenWA

immich and OpenWA share 11 technologies: Express, @nestjs/core, @nestjs/bullmq, Postgres, Redis, bullmq, NestJS, helmet, sharp, Zod, and qrcode. Both are written in TypeScript.

- [immich-app/immich](https://seerepo.com/r/immich-app/immich): High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
- [rmyndharis/OpenWA](https://seerepo.com/r/rmyndharis/OpenWA): Free, Open Source, Self-Hosted WhatsApp API Gateway

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Express, @nestjs/core, @nestjs/bullmq, Postgres, Redis, bullmq, NestJS, helmet, sharp, Zod, qrcode
- Only in immich: Flutter, Jetpack Compose, FastAPI, SQLite, Hugging Face, lifecycle-runtime-ktx, uvicorn, React, @opentelemetry/instrumentation-ioredis, Svelte, SvelteKit, Vite, dynamic_color, material_color_utilities, com.google.android.material:material, scrollable_positioned_list, fluttertoast, Glance, Rich, ONNX, rapidocr, tokenizers, Glide, pillow, image_picker, flutter_svg, Pydantic, Fastlane, logging, Gunicorn, cli-progress, yaml, Tailwind CSS, kysely, nestjs-kysely, kysely-postgres-js, jose, @simplewebauthn/server, bcrypt, jsonwebtoken, openid-client, react-email, sanitize-filename, handlebars, js-yaml, nodemailer, pngjs, thumbhash, validator, opentelemetry, tailwind-variants, tailwind-merge, media-chrome, fabric, MapLibre, svelte-confetti, uplot, Simple Icons, @simplewebauthn/browser
- Only in OpenWA: MCP, TypeORM, @nestjs/typeorm, class-validator, class-transformer, dockerode

## Side by side

| | immich | OpenWA |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 329,240 lines written, 1,940 code files | 488,202 lines written, 1,013 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Jules | 0.2% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and Cursor |
| Activity | Last push November 5, 2026, 11,392 commits, 118,280 stars | Last push November 7, 2026, 6,716 commits, 16,581 stars |
| Tests | 538 test files. 26% of its code files have a test that imports them | 1,134 test files. 74.5% 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, immich or OpenWA?

OpenWA, with 488,202 lines written; immich has 329,240.

The proof: [rmyndharis/OpenWA's code at commit 79d7f86](https://github.com/rmyndharis/OpenWA/tree/79d7f865e0518cb2d210deb28a84dcb0f4f39e66)

### Which has more GitHub stars, immich or OpenWA?

immich, with 118,280 stars; OpenWA has 16,581.

The proof: [immich-app/immich on GitHub](https://github.com/immich-app/immich)

### Which has more tests, immich or OpenWA?

OpenWA, with 1,134 test files; immich has 538.

The proof: [rmyndharis/OpenWA's code at commit 79d7f86](https://github.com/rmyndharis/OpenWA/tree/79d7f865e0518cb2d210deb28a84dcb0f4f39e66)

### Which was updated more recently, immich or OpenWA?

OpenWA: its last push was on November 7, 2026, and immich's on November 5, 2026.

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

### Which has more commits signed by AI, immich or OpenWA?

OpenWA: an AI signed 0.2% of its commits, with Claude Code and Cursor; in immich, 0.1%.

## Sources

- immich-app/immich: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit 0fe21a3 (https://github.com/immich-app/immich/tree/0fe21a3e0c980be1549ec22304bac09c034fda93)
- rmyndharis/OpenWA: Read on November 7, 2026, at commit 79d7f86 (https://github.com/rmyndharis/OpenWA/tree/79d7f865e0518cb2d210deb28a84dcb0f4f39e66)

## 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.