glanceapp/glance vs usefathom/fathom
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, glance and fathom both show mixed maintenance signals. glance was committed to 1 week ago with 17+ active contributors, while fathom last saw a commit 6 months ago with 15+ active contributors. glance is AGPL-3.0-licensed while fathom is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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glanceapp/glance
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 73% of recent commits
- ⚠AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ⚠1 moderate-severity advisory on direct dependencies
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓17 active contributors
- ✓AGPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to 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, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
usefathom/fathom
Slowing — last commit 6mo ago
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 6mo ago
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 6mo ago
- ✓15 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 49% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| glance | fathom | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 36,895 | 8,018 |
| Last commit | 11d ago | 6mo ago |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 315 | 5 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 5% | 20% |
| Dependency CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 1 moderate · 0 low | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | A | A |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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