ipatool vs LocalAI
ipatool and LocalAI share 3 technologies: MCP, github.com/schollz/progressbar/v3, and Model Context Protocol. Both are written in Go.
What they share and what sets them apart
majd
ipatool
Command-line tool that allows you to search for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and macOS apps on the App Store, and download .ipa or macOS .pkg app packages.
Go12.3kRead on November 11, 2026, at commit 8771e57What is ipatool built with?Only in ipatool
- howett.net/plist
- github.com/bodgit/sevenzip
- github.com/rs/zerolog
In common
mudler
LocalAI
LocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required.
Go50.3kRead on November 10, 2026, at commit 638bb56What is LocalAI built with?Only in LocalAI
- React
- net/http
- Echo
- go-sqlite3
- modernc.org/sqlite
pyarrow
- s3
- SQLite
- NATS.io
- Postgres
- github.com/glebarez/sqlite
github.com/valkey-io/valkey-go
github.com/valkey-io/valkey-go/mock
- Hugging Face
- Qdrant
OpenAI- anyio
- FastAPI
- Lightning
uvicorn
- Tokio
react-router-dom
- Vite
- Hono
- Gradio
matplotlib
- fyne.io/fyne/v2
- gorm.io/gorm
- github.com/emersion/go-sasl
- github.com/nats-io/jwt/v2
- github.com/nats-io/nkeys
- golang.org/x/oauth2
github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials
github.com/coreos/go-oidc/v3
- github.com/timbutler/zxcvbn
accelerate
- bitsandbytes
- conformer
- coqui-tts
- einops
- flash-attn
- go-openai
llama-cpp-python
- llvmlite
- ModelScope
- nemo-toolkit
- neucodec
- NVIDIA
- oneccl-bind-pt
- ONNX
- onnxruntime-gpu
openai-go
- phonemizer
- rfdetr
- s3tokenizer
scikit-image
- sentencepiece
- spacy-pkuseg
- texterrors
- tiktoken
torchao
- torchtune
torchvision
- vector-quantize-pytorch
- torch
github.com/gpustack/gguf-parser-go
github.com/mudler/nib
- transformers
diffusers
- github.com/mudler/cogito
mlx
- github.com/mudler/localrecall
opencv-python
insightface
- mlx-lm
torchaudio
- vLLM
- github.com/yalue/onnxruntime_go
librosa
- onnxruntime
sglang
- compel
- datasets
- faster-qwen3-tts
- faster-whisper
funasr
github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp
- github.com/mudler/go-piper
- github.com/otiai10/openaigo
- github.com/streamer45/silero-vad-go
inference
- kokoro
- mlx-audio
moonshine-voice
- Ollama
optimum
- optimum-quanto
- outetts
peft
- pocket-tts
- QWen
- qwen-tts
- rerankers
safetensors
sentence-transformers
speechbrain
- tinygrad
tokenizers
trl
voxcpm
- whisperx
av
markupsafe
- sox
- torchcodec
github.com/go-audio/wav
pillow
github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu
- github.com/emersion/go-imap/v2
- github.com/yuin/goldmark
- golang.org/x/image
github.com/charmbracelet/glamour
- github.com/dhowden/tag
- github.com/emersion/go-smtp
github.com/go-pdf/fpdf
github.com/klippa-app/go-pdfium
github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday
- github.com/russross/blackfriday
imageio
imageio-ffmpeg
- jinja2
- github.com/google/jsonschema-go
loguru
- github.com/mudler/xlog
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric
- OpenTelemetry
- github.com/mudler/go-processmanager
- containerd
- Docker
tracing
github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2
github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config
github.com/ipfs/go-log
- github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric
- Prometheus
tracing-subscriber
fontsource-variable
- CodeMirror
- @lezer/highlight
- yaml
- dompurify
highlight.js
marked
Side by side
ipatoolLocalAI
SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
ipatool50,631 lines written180 code files
LocalAI1,517,084 lines written3,281 code files
Who writes itA commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
ipatool0.4% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code
LocalAI5.7% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
ipatoolLast push November 10, 2026279 commits12,287 stars
LocalAILast push November 10, 20269,704 commits50,282 stars
TestsThe files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.
ipatool117 test files82.2% of its code files have a test that imports them
LocalAI3,264 test files61.8% of its code files have a test that imports them
Frequently asked questions
Which is bigger, ipatool or LocalAI?
LocalAI, with 1,517,084 lines written; ipatool has 50,631.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's code at commit 638bb56
Which has more GitHub stars, ipatool or LocalAI?
LocalAI, with 50,282 stars; ipatool has 12,287.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI on GitHub
Which has more tests, ipatool or LocalAI?
LocalAI, with 3,264 test files; ipatool has 117.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's code at commit 638bb56
Which was updated more recently, ipatool or LocalAI?
Both got their last push on November 10, 2026.
The proof: majd/ipatool's commits on GitHub
Which has more commits signed by AI, ipatool or LocalAI?
LocalAI: an AI signed 5.7% of its commits, with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor; in ipatool, 0.4%.
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