johncoates/aerial vs lihaoyun6/quickrecorder
johncoates/aerial shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, aerial shows healthier maintenance signals than quickrecorder. aerial rates Healthy overall while quickrecorder rates Mixed. aerial last saw a commit 10 months ago with 9+ active contributors, while quickrecorder last saw a commit 1 year ago with 3+ active contributors. aerial is MIT-licensed while quickrecorder is AGPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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johncoates/aerial →
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.
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 9mo ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 75% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 9mo ago
- ✓9 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
lihaoyun6/quickrecorder →
Slowing — last commit 11mo ago
copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected…
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 11mo ago; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 11mo ago
- ⚠Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 87% of recent commits
- ⚠AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 11mo ago
- ✓3 active contributors
- ✓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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| aerial | quickrecorder | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 20,972 | 8,249 |
| Last commit | 10mo ago | 1y ago |
| License | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 28 | 160 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | — |
| Test coverage | — | — |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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