Lita vs Errbot: What are the differences?

Lita: ChatOps for Ruby. Lita is a chat bot written in Ruby with persistent storage provided by Redis. It uses a plugin system to connect to different chat services and to provide new behavior. The plugin system uses the familiar tools of the Ruby ecosystem: RubyGems and Bundler; Errbot: A chatbot that connects to your favorite chat service and brings your tools into the conversation. The main use is to make it easy for you to write your own plugins so you can make it do whatever you want: a deployment, retrieving some information online, trigger a tool via an API.

Lita and Errbot belong to "ChatOps" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Lita are:

• Automate tasks
• Built with Ruby
• Free and open source

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

• Multiple server backends
• Core features
• Built-in administration and security

Lita and Errbot are both open source tools. Errbot with 2.08K GitHub stars and 469 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Lita with 1.58K GitHub stars and 161 GitHub forks.