chentao0707/simplifyreader vs jakewharton/butterknife
jakewharton/butterknife shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, butterknife shows healthier maintenance signals than simplifyreader. butterknife rates Healthy overall while simplifyreader rates Mixed. simplifyreader last saw a commit 4 years ago with 8+ active contributors, while butterknife last saw a commit 2 years ago with 17+ active contributors. Both use the Apache-2.0 license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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chentao0707/simplifyreader →
Stale — last commit 5y ago
last commit was 5y ago; no tests detected…
no tests detected; no CI workflows detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 5y ago; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Stale — last commit 5y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 67% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓8 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
jakewharton/butterknife →
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.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 3y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 75% of recent commits
- ✓17 active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| simplifyreader | butterknife | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 4,553 | 25,377 |
| Last commit | 4y ago | 2y ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 41 | 119 |
| Has tests | — | ✓ |
| Has CI | — | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 57% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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