Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/storytold/pdfcraft/vs/zed-industries/zed
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/storytold/pdfcraft/vs/zed-industries/zed.md
Description: pdfcraft and zed share 6 technologies: objc2-app-kit, objc2-foundation, wayland-client, image, plist, and log. Both are written in Rust.

# pdfcraft vs zed

pdfcraft and zed share 6 technologies: objc2-app-kit, objc2-foundation, wayland-client, image, plist, and log. Both are written in Rust.

- [storytold/pdfcraft](https://seerepo.com/r/storytold/pdfcraft): PdfCraft: An open-source PDF reader and editor written by scratch in pure Rust
- [zed-industries/zed](https://seerepo.com/r/zed-industries/zed): Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: objc2-app-kit, objc2-foundation, wayland-client, image, plist, log
- Only in pdfcraft: egui, eframe, skrifa, craft-ui, rfd, egui_extras, kurbo, hmac, pbkdf2, ed25519-dalek, hayro, hayro-syntax, lopdf, roxmltree, craft-print, png, tiff, zune-jpeg
- Only in zed: axum, tower, aws-sdk-s3, lru, Postgres, sqlx, AWS S3, GitHub, gpui, gpui_tokio, smol, Tokio, tiny_http, core-services, swash, gpui_platform, accesskit, wgpu, objc2-quartz-core, objc2-ui-kit, x11rb, core-graphics, taffy, xkbcommon, console, cosmic-text, dialoguer, jsonwebtoken, rpassword, markdown, quick-xml, pulldown-cmark, html5ever, linkify, handlebars, resvg, ttf-parser, schemars, jsonschema, tracing, env_logger, tracing-subscriber

## Side by side

| | pdfcraft | zed |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 434,248 lines written, 596 code files | 1,835,785 lines written, 1,779 code files |
| Who writes it | 50.8% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Devin | 0.5% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Amp, Factory, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI |
| Activity | Last push November 5, 2026, 3,438 commits, 19,706 stars | Last push November 4, 2026, 37,547 commits, 92,679 stars |
| Tests | 270 test files. 53.7% of its code files have a test that imports them | 140 test files. 18.1% 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, pdfcraft or zed?

zed, with 1,835,785 lines written; pdfcraft has 434,248.

The proof: [zed-industries/zed's code at commit e21ff1b](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/e21ff1b368b074586e4dae0d9bbf15d5dd8a1476)

### Which has more GitHub stars, pdfcraft or zed?

zed, with 92,679 stars; pdfcraft has 19,706.

The proof: [zed-industries/zed on GitHub](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed)

### Which has more tests, pdfcraft or zed?

pdfcraft, with 270 test files; zed has 140.

The proof: [storytold/pdfcraft's code at commit 9f04acc](https://github.com/storytold/pdfcraft/tree/9f04accceff67174fc2817035f8ab4577bef8285)

### Which was updated more recently, pdfcraft or zed?

pdfcraft: its last push was on November 5, 2026, and zed's on November 4, 2026.

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

### Which has more commits signed by AI, pdfcraft or zed?

pdfcraft: an AI signed 50.8% of its commits, with Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Devin; in zed, 0.5%.

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

## Sources

- storytold/pdfcraft: Read on November 6, 2026, at commit 9f04acc (https://github.com/storytold/pdfcraft/tree/9f04accceff67174fc2817035f8ab4577bef8285)
- zed-industries/zed: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit e21ff1b (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/e21ff1b368b074586e4dae0d9bbf15d5dd8a1476)

## 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.