freeyourgadget/gadgetbridge vs halo-dev/halo
halo-dev/halo shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, halo shows healthier maintenance signals than gadgetbridge. halo rates Healthy overall while gadgetbridge rates Mixed. gadgetbridge last saw a commit 1 year ago with 22+ active contributors, while halo last saw a commit 1 month ago with 11+ active contributors. gadgetbridge is AGPL-3.0-licensed while halo is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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freeyourgadget/gadgetbridge →
Stale — last commit 1y ago
copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 1y ago…
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 1y ago; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Stale — last commit 1y ago
- ⚠AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓22+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 14% of recent commits)
- ✓AGPL-3.0 licensed
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
- →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
halo-dev/halo →
Healthy across the board
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility
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.
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓11 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 44% of recent commits)
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| gadgetbridge | halo | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 4,513 | 38,498 |
| Last commit | 1y ago | 1mo ago |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 461 | 189 |
| Has tests | — | ✓ |
| Has CI | — | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 11% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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