DocPad vs Octopress: What are the differences?

Developers describe DocPad as "Designers and developers can create websites faster than ever before". Empower your website frontends with layouts, meta-data, pre-processors (markdown, jade, coffeescript, etc.), partials, skeletons, file watching, querying, and an amazing plugin system. DocPad will streamline your web development process allowing you to craft full-featured websites quicker than ever before. On the other hand, Octopress is detailed as "A static blogging framework for hackers, based on Jekyll". Octopress is an obsessively designed framework for Jekyll blogging. It’s easy to configure and easy to deploy.

DocPad and Octopress can be primarily classified as "Static Site Generators" tools.

Some of the features offered by DocPad are:

• Versioning
• Pre-Built Skeletons
• Language Agnostic

On the other hand, Octopress provides the following key features:

• Octopress sports a clean responsive theme written in semantic HTML5, focused on readability and friendliness toward mobile devices.
• Code blogging is easy and beautiful. Embed code (with Solarized styling) in your posts from gists, jsFiddle or from your filesystem.
• Third party integration is simple with built-in support for Pinboard, Delicious, GitHub Repositories, Disqus Comments and Google Analytics.

DocPad and Octopress are both open source tools. It seems that Octopress with 9.51K GitHub stars and 2.86K forks on GitHub has more adoption than DocPad with 2.99K GitHub stars and 250 GitHub forks.