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Hound vs Reviewable: What are the differences?
Developers describe Hound as "A hosted service that comments on Ruby style guide violations in your GitHub pull requests". Take care of pesky code reviews with a trusty Hound. Hound reviews GitHub pull requests for style guide violations. On the other hand, Reviewable is detailed as "GitHub code reviews done right". A code review tool for GitHub pull requests inspired by Google's internal tool. Powerful diffing and workflow features wrapped in a beautiful UI, with seamless GitHub integration. Free for public repos.
Hound and Reviewable belong to "Code Review" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Hound are:
- Open source
- Free for public repos
- Automated reviews of GitHub pull requests for style guide violations
On the other hand, Reviewable provides the following key features:
- See only what changed since last time you looked (even if rebased).
- Instantly diff any two revisions of a file, in one or two columns.
- Customize code font, syntax highlighting, max line length.
"Comments on style so I don't have to" is the primary reason why developers consider Hound over the competitors, whereas "Batch commenting" was stated as the key factor in picking Reviewable.
Hound is an open source tool with 1.72K GitHub stars and 393 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hound's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Hound
- Comments on style so I don't have to4
- Easy configuration3
- Fast3
- Free for OSS2
- Inline comments2
Pros of Reviewable
- Batch commenting5
- Makes me feel organised and in control4
- Easy to use4
- Easy incremental reviewing3
- Efficient comment paging3
- Manual review of c c++ in eclipse and c# code in vs1
- Language agnostic1
- Focused on code reviews1
- Free for OSS1