Ctop vs Weave: What are the differences?

Developers describe Ctop as "Commandline monitoring for containers". Top-like interface for container metrics. Ctop provides a concise and condensed overview of real-time metrics for multiple containers, as well as an expanded view for inspecting a specific container. On the other hand, Weave is detailed as "Weave creates a virtual network that connects Docker containers deployed across multiple hosts". Weave can traverse firewalls and operate in partially connected networks. Traffic can be encrypted, allowing hosts to be connected across an untrusted network. With weave you can easily construct applications consisting of multiple containers, running anywhere.

Ctop and Weave belong to "Container Tools" category of the tech stack.

Ctop and Weave are both open source tools. Ctop with 8.66K GitHub stars and 327 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Weave with 5.57K GitHub stars and 517 GitHub forks.