Gogs vs Phabricator: What are the differences?

What is Gogs? A self-hosted Git service written in Go. The goal of this project is to make the easiest, fastest and most painless way to set up a self-hosted Git service. With Go, this can be done in independent binary distribution across ALL platforms that Go supports, including Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

What is Phabricator? Open Source, Software Development Platform. Phabricator is a collection of open source web applications that help software companies build better software.

Gogs can be classified as a tool in the "Code Collaboration & Version Control" category, while Phabricator is grouped under "Code Review".

Some of the features offered by Gogs are:

• Activity timeline
• SSH/HTTP(S) protocol support
• SMTP/LDAP/reverse proxy authentication support

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

• reviewing code before it hits master
• auditing code after it hits master
• hosting Git/Hg/SVN repositories

"Self-hosted github like service" is the primary reason why developers consider Gogs over the competitors, whereas "Open Source" was stated as the key factor in picking Phabricator.

Gogs is an open source tool with 30.6K GitHub stars and 3.54K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Gogs's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Phabricator has a broader approval, being mentioned in 51 company stacks & 12 developers stacks; compared to Gogs, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 10 developer stacks.