baseflow/photoview vs col-e/recaf
col-e/recaf shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, recaf shows healthier maintenance signals than photoview. recaf rates Healthy overall while photoview rates Mixed. photoview last saw a commit 4 years ago with 20+ active contributors, while recaf last saw a commit 1 month ago with 4+ active contributors. photoview is Apache-2.0-licensed while recaf is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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baseflow/photoview →
Stale — last commit 4y ago
last commit was 4y ago; no tests detected…
no tests detected; no CI workflows detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 4y ago; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Stale — last commit 4y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 60% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓20 active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days; add a test suite
- →Fork & modify Mixed → Healthy if: add a test suite
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
col-e/recaf →
Healthy across all four use cases
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 93% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 1w ago
- ✓4 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| photoview | recaf | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 18,837 | 7,160 |
| Last commit | 4y ago | 1mo ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 229 | 83 |
| Has tests | — | ✓ |
| Has CI | — | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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