Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/pollen-robotics/microduck/vs/spacedriveapp/spacedrive
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/pollen-robotics/microduck/vs/spacedriveapp/spacedrive.md
Description: microduck and spacedrive share 8 technologies: axum, Tokio, Ratatui, image, hound, qrcode, tracing, and tracing-subscriber. Both are written in Rust.

# microduck vs spacedrive

microduck and spacedrive share 8 technologies: axum, Tokio, Ratatui, image, hound, qrcode, tracing, and tracing-subscriber. Both are written in Rust.

- [pollen-robotics/microduck](https://seerepo.com/r/pollen-robotics/microduck): A Tiny biped duck robot 🦆
- [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: axum, Tokio, Ratatui, image, hound, qrcode, tracing, tracing-subscriber
- Only in microduck: FastAPI, uvicorn, glib, Gradio, ort, av, jinja2, roxmltree, Hugging Face
- Only in spacedrive: axum-extra, rusqlite, sqlx-sqlite, sqlx, SQLite, opendal, tower, 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, 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, zip, jsonschema, 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, valibot

## Side by side

| | microduck | spacedrive |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 157,955 lines written, 206 code files | 359,902 lines written, 1,504 code files |
| Who writes it | 25.8% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and Codex | 6.3% of its commits signed by AI. With Cursor and Claude Code |
| Activity | Last push November 9, 2026, 1,081 commits, 13,619 stars | Last push November 6, 2026, 4,778 commits, 39,443 stars |
| Tests | 19 test files. 1.5% 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, microduck or spacedrive?

spacedrive, with 359,902 lines written; microduck has 157,955.

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

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

spacedrive, with 39,443 stars; microduck has 13,619.

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

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

spacedrive, with 128 test files; microduck has 19.

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

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

microduck: its last push was on November 9, 2026, and spacedrive's on November 6, 2026.

The proof: [pollen-robotics/microduck's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/pollen-robotics/microduck/commits)

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

microduck: an AI signed 25.8% of its commits, with Claude Code and Codex; in spacedrive, 6.3%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in pollen-robotics/microduck](https://seerepo.com/r/pollen-robotics/microduck/ai)

## Sources

- pollen-robotics/microduck: Read on November 9, 2026, at commit da34a22 (https://github.com/pollen-robotics/microduck/tree/da34a2212ae12eddfd73d0dfbf924f291aaf1dc9)
- 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.