Comparison
zen vs rea
rea has more GitHub stars (266,617 vs 1,184). rea was updated more recently (last commit 10h ago). Data comes straight from GitHub and refreshes daily.
zen
Selfhosted notes app. Single golang binary, notes stored as markdown within SQLite, full-text search, very low resource usage
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go install github.com/air-verse/air@latest
rea
Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.
$
npx -y rea-agents@latest analyze-javascript-application /absolute/path/to/app --json| Metric | zen | rea |
|---|---|---|
| Type | MCP server | MCP server |
| GitHub stars | 1,184 | 266,617 |
| Stars, last 7 days | n/a | n/a |
| Forks | 64 | 66,955 |
| Upvotes | 0 | 0 |
| Language | JavaScript | TypeScript |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Last commit | 1d ago | 10h ago |
| Created | Jan 2025 | Apr 2026 |
| Categories | Databases, Search & web, Memory & knowledge | AI & LLM tooling, Memory & knowledge |