johncoates/aerial vs ts1/bleunlock
johncoates/aerial shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, aerial shows healthier maintenance signals than bleunlock. aerial rates Healthy overall while bleunlock rates Concerns. aerial last saw a commit 10 months ago with 9+ active contributors, while bleunlock last saw a commit 1 year ago with 6+ active contributors. 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
ts1/bleunlock →
Stale and unlicensed — last commit 2y ago
no license — legally unclear; last commit was 2y ago…
no license — can't legally use code
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code; last commit was 2y ago
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 92% of recent commits
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ✓6 active contributors
- ✓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
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| aerial | bleunlock | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 20,972 | 3,793 |
| Last commit | 10mo ago | 1y ago |
| License | MIT | — |
| Open issues | 28 | 85 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | — | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Concerns signals |
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