Comparison
Beads vs Orca
Orca has more GitHub stars (93,312 vs 27,908). Orca was updated more recently (last commit 6h ago). Data comes straight from GitHub and refreshes daily.
Beads
Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
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npm install -g @beads/bd
Orca
Orca is the ADE for working with a fleet of parallel agents. Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop, mobile and remote runtime.
$
brew install --cask stablyai/orca/orca| Metric | Beads | Orca |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Plugin | Plugin |
| GitHub stars | 27,908 | 93,312 |
| Stars, last 7 days | n/a | n/a |
| Forks | 1,889 | 5,948 |
| Upvotes | 0 | 0 |
| Language | Go | TypeScript |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Last commit | 15h ago | 6h ago |
| Created | Oct 2025 | Mar 2026 |
| Categories | Memory & knowledge, AI & LLM tooling | Dev tools, AI & LLM tooling, Mobile & desktop |