ibotpeaches/apktool vs netflix/hystrix
ibotpeaches/apktool shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, apktool shows healthier maintenance signals than hystrix. apktool rates Healthy overall while hystrix rates Mixed. apktool was committed to 3 weeks ago with 10+ active contributors, while hystrix last saw a commit 5 months ago with 26+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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ibotpeaches/apktool →
Healthy across the board
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.
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 3d ago
- ✓10 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 33% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests + OpenSSF Scorecard
netflix/hystrix →
Slowing — last commit 5mo ago
no license — legally unclear
no license — can't legally use code
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 5mo ago
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ✓Last commit 5mo ago
- ✓26+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 38% of recent commits)
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| apktool | hystrix | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 24,586 | 24,461 |
| Last commit | 22d ago | 5mo ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | — |
| Open issues | 78 | 56 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 84% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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