Side-by-Side Comparison
pencil vs gorse
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Recorded Stars Comparison
● evolus/pencil (9.9K)
● gorse-io/gorse (9.8K)
☆ 9.9Kpencil stars
☆ 9.8Kgorse stars
+31Difference
pencilStar Leader (1.0x)
⚖️ Comparison Verdict
Star Popularity
pencil Leads
+31 stars (1.0x ratio)
Forks & Derivatives
gorse Leads
918 total community forks
Recent Maintenance
pencil
Pushed 2d ago
Licensing
Different
pencil: GPL-2.0 vs gorse: Apache-2.0
Side-by-Side Facts
| Metric | evolus/pencil ↗ | gorse-io/gorse ↗ |
|---|---|---|
| Description | The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use. | AI powered open source recommender system engine supports classical/LLM rankers and multimodal content via embedding |
| GitHub Stars | ☆ 9,875 | ☆ 9,844 |
| Forks | 791 | 918 |
| Open Issues | 531 | 120 |
| Main Language | JavaScript | Go |
| License | GPL-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Last Push | Oct 10, 2026 | Oct 1, 2026 |
| GitHub Source | Open Source ↗ | Open Source ↗ |
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