Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/storytold/photocraft/vs/zed-industries/zed
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/storytold/photocraft/vs/zed-industries/zed.md
Description: photocraft and zed share 10 technologies: objc2-app-kit, Tokio, objc2-foundation, wgpu, x11rb, image, resvg, plist, schemars, and log. Both are written in Rust.

# photocraft vs zed

photocraft and zed share 10 technologies: objc2-app-kit, Tokio, objc2-foundation, wgpu, x11rb, image, resvg, plist, schemars, and log. Both are written in Rust.

- [storytold/photocraft](https://seerepo.com/r/storytold/photocraft): PhotoCraft: An open-source, photo 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, Tokio, objc2-foundation, wgpu, x11rb, image, resvg, plist, schemars, log
- Only in photocraft: skrifa, parley, rfd, muda, winit, rmcp, roxmltree, jxl-oxide, png
- Only in zed: axum, tower, aws-sdk-s3, lru, Postgres, sqlx, AWS S3, GitHub, gpui, gpui_tokio, smol, tiny_http, core-services, swash, gpui_platform, accesskit, objc2-quartz-core, objc2-ui-kit, core-graphics, wayland-client, taffy, xkbcommon, console, cosmic-text, dialoguer, jsonwebtoken, rpassword, markdown, quick-xml, pulldown-cmark, html5ever, linkify, handlebars, ttf-parser, jsonschema, tracing, env_logger, tracing-subscriber

## Side by side

| | photocraft | zed |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 860,770 lines written, 1,249 code files | 1,835,785 lines written, 1,779 code files |
| Who writes it | 51.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, CodeRabbit, GitHub Copilot, 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 4, 2026, 6,289 commits, 76,898 stars | Last push November 4, 2026, 37,547 commits, 92,679 stars |
| Tests | 825 test files. 62.1% 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, photocraft or zed?

zed, with 1,835,785 lines written; photocraft has 860,770.

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

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

zed, with 92,679 stars; photocraft has 76,898.

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

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

photocraft, with 825 test files; zed has 140.

The proof: [storytold/photocraft's code at commit 8e9277e](https://github.com/storytold/photocraft/tree/8e9277e20e8d5185ed4259908022a719a647237e)

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

Both got their last push on November 4, 2026.

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

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

photocraft: an AI signed 51.1% of its commits, with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, CodeRabbit, GitHub Copilot, and Devin; in zed, 0.5%.

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

## Sources

- storytold/photocraft: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit 8e9277e (https://github.com/storytold/photocraft/tree/8e9277e20e8d5185ed4259908022a719a647237e)
- 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.