Comparison
Paperbanana vs rea
rea has more GitHub stars (288,843 vs 2,401). rea was updated more recently (last commit 1d ago). Data comes straight from GitHub and refreshes daily.
Paperbanana
Open source implementation and extension of Google Research’s PaperBanana for automated academic figures, diagrams, and research visuals, expanded to new domains like slide…
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pip install paperbanana
rea
Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.
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npx -y rea-agents@latest analyze-javascript-application /absolute/path/to/app --json| Metric | Paperbanana | rea |
|---|---|---|
| Type | MCP server | MCP server |
| GitHub stars | 2,401 | 288,843 |
| Stars, last 7 days | n/a | +22,226 |
| Forks | 341 | 72,729 |
| Upvotes | 0 | 0 |
| Language | Python | TypeScript |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 1d ago |
| Created | Feb 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| Categories | AI & LLM tooling, Design & frontend, Data & analytics | AI & LLM tooling, Memory & knowledge |