Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/kitao/pyxel/vs/spacedriveapp/spacedrive
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/kitao/pyxel/vs/spacedriveapp/spacedrive.md
Description: pyxel and spacedrive share 3 technologies: hound, image, and zip. Both are written in Rust.

# pyxel vs spacedrive

pyxel and spacedrive share 3 technologies: hound, image, and zip. Both are written in Rust.

- [kitao/pyxel](https://seerepo.com/r/kitao/pyxel): A retro game engine for Python
- [spacedriveapp/spacedrive](https://seerepo.com/r/spacedriveapp/spacedrive): Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: hound, image, zip
- Only in pyxel: fontdue, glow, pillow, gif, gltf, symphonia
- Only in spacedrive: axum, axum-extra, rusqlite, sqlx-sqlite, sqlx, SQLite, opendal, tower, Tokio, gpui, objc2-foundation, objc2-app-kit, hermes-android, react-android, React, react-native, Expo, react-navigation, @react-native-async-storage/async-storage, JetBrains, Vite, Tauri, @tauri-apps/api, react-router-dom, console, dialoguer, objc2-ui-kit, Ratatui, comfy-table, crossterm, gpui_platform, gpui-component, indicatif, inquire, sea-orm, sea-orm-migration, argon2, hmac, hkdf, ed25519-dalek, keyring, whisper-rs, rmcp, kamadak-exif, pdfium-render, resvg, webp, jsonschema, tracing, tracing-subscriber, tracing-appender, Tailwind CSS, class-variance-authority, Facebook, react-native-safe-area-context, expo-blur, @callstack/liquid-glass, react-native-reanimated, @react-native-community/slider, expo-camera, react-native-gesture-handler, phosphor-react-native, com.facebook.fresco:animated-webp, react-native-qrcode-svg, tauri-plugin-dialog, @phosphor-icons/react, Framer, React Hook Form, TanStack, react-selecto, dnd-kit, Radix UI, three, D3, MapLibre, ogl, react-masonry-css, react-three, prismjs, qrcode, valibot

## Side by side

| | pyxel | spacedrive |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 109,242 lines written, 155 code files | 359,902 lines written, 1,504 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code | 6.3% of its commits signed by AI. With Cursor and Claude Code |
| Activity | Last push November 5, 2026, 7,962 commits, 18,540 stars | Last push November 6, 2026, 4,778 commits, 39,443 stars |
| Tests | 89 test files. 12.9% of its code files have a test that imports them | 128 test files. 5.3% 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, pyxel or spacedrive?

spacedrive, with 359,902 lines written; pyxel has 109,242.

The proof: [spacedriveapp/spacedrive's code at commit 11523b2](https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive/tree/11523b224d1422d98def9a1c0f99e89fafada00d)

### Which has more GitHub stars, pyxel or spacedrive?

spacedrive, with 39,443 stars; pyxel has 18,540.

The proof: [spacedriveapp/spacedrive on GitHub](https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive)

### Which has more tests, pyxel or spacedrive?

spacedrive, with 128 test files; pyxel has 89.

The proof: [spacedriveapp/spacedrive's code at commit 11523b2](https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive/tree/11523b224d1422d98def9a1c0f99e89fafada00d)

### Which was updated more recently, pyxel or spacedrive?

spacedrive: its last push was on November 6, 2026, and pyxel's on November 5, 2026.

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

### Which has more commits signed by AI, pyxel or spacedrive?

spacedrive: an AI signed 6.3% of its commits, with Cursor and Claude Code; in pyxel, 0.1%.

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

## Sources

- kitao/pyxel: Read on November 6, 2026, at commit 882f9d2 (https://github.com/kitao/pyxel/tree/882f9d2db8e3ee766e85ef14ec0b8fd36fc74b7e)
- spacedriveapp/spacedrive: Read on November 6, 2026, at commit 11523b2 (https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive/tree/11523b224d1422d98def9a1c0f99e89fafada00d)

## 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.