johncoates/aerial vs lwouis/alt-tab-macos
johncoates/aerial shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, aerial shows healthier maintenance signals than alt-tab-macos. aerial rates Healthy overall while alt-tab-macos rates Mixed. aerial last saw a commit 10 months ago with 9+ active contributors, while alt-tab-macos last saw a commit 1 month ago with 2+ active contributors. aerial is MIT-licensed while alt-tab-macos is GPL-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
lwouis/alt-tab-macos →
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
copyleft license (GPL-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.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 88% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓2 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
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
| aerial | alt-tab-macos | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 20,972 | 15,592 |
| Last commit | 10mo ago | 1mo ago |
| License | MIT | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 28 | 74 |
| 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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