Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/ruffle-rs/ruffle/vs/storytold/lightcraft
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/ruffle-rs/ruffle/vs/storytold/lightcraft.md
Description: ruffle and lightcraft share 10 technologies: egui, wgpu, winit, rfd, egui_extras, image, quick-xml, png, jpeg-decoder, and log. Both are written in Rust.

# ruffle vs lightcraft

ruffle and lightcraft share 10 technologies: egui, wgpu, winit, rfd, egui_extras, image, quick-xml, png, jpeg-decoder, and log. Both are written in Rust.

- [ruffle-rs/ruffle](https://seerepo.com/r/ruffle-rs/ruffle): A Flash Player emulator written in Rust
- [storytold/lightcraft](https://seerepo.com/r/storytold/lightcraft): LightCraft: An open-source non-destructive photo editor written by scratch in pure Rust

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: egui, wgpu, winit, rfd, egui_extras, image, quick-xml, png, jpeg-decoder, log
- Only in ruffle: lru, Tokio, fontdb, fontconfig, indicatif, lyon_geom, ttf-parser, csv, symphonia, zip, gif, tracing, tracing-subscriber, tracing-tracy, tracing-wasm, tracy-client, tracing-appender, tracing-log
- Only in lightcraft: objc2-foundation, eframe, objc2-app-kit, ab_glyph, craft-ui, craft-window, muda, candle-core, candle-nn, heic-rs, jpeg-encoder, zune-core, zune-jpeg, image-webp, jxl-oxide, rav1e, tiff, harfrust

## Side by side

| | ruffle | lightcraft |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 276,509 lines written, 743 code files | 396,904 lines written, 619 code files |
| Who writes it | 0% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and GitHub Copilot | 71.9% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and CodeRabbit |
| Activity | Last push November 6, 2026, 17,770 commits, 18,816 stars | Last push November 8, 2026, 3,171 commits, 15,658 stars |
| Tests | 246 test files. 8.9% of its code files have a test that imports them | 351 test files. 55.7% 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, ruffle or lightcraft?

lightcraft, with 396,904 lines written; ruffle has 276,509.

The proof: [storytold/lightcraft's code at commit b3b4998](https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/tree/b3b49987d4b2c99f582b80ae91b2ec42ab24d14e)

### Which has more GitHub stars, ruffle or lightcraft?

ruffle, with 18,816 stars; lightcraft has 15,658.

The proof: [ruffle-rs/ruffle on GitHub](https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle)

### Which has more tests, ruffle or lightcraft?

lightcraft, with 351 test files; ruffle has 246.

The proof: [storytold/lightcraft's code at commit b3b4998](https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/tree/b3b49987d4b2c99f582b80ae91b2ec42ab24d14e)

### Which was updated more recently, ruffle or lightcraft?

lightcraft: its last push was on November 8, 2026, and ruffle's on November 6, 2026.

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

### Which has more commits signed by AI, ruffle or lightcraft?

lightcraft: an AI signed 71.9% of its commits, with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and CodeRabbit.

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

## Sources

- ruffle-rs/ruffle: Read on November 6, 2026, at commit f24403b (https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/tree/f24403b5a801b442750241f0eb0806d1c28f7561)
- storytold/lightcraft: Read on November 8, 2026, at commit b3b4998 (https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/tree/b3b49987d4b2c99f582b80ae91b2ec42ab24d14e)

## 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.