Kitematic vs Nixery: What are the differences?

What is Kitematic? The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac. Simple Docker App management for Mac OS X.

What is Nixery? Container registry which transparently builds images using the Nix package manager. It is a Docker-compatible container registry that is capable of transparently building and serving container images using Nix. It provides ad-hoc container images that contain packages from the Nix package manager. Images with arbitrary packages can be requested via the image name.

Kitematic and Nixery belong to "Container Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Kitematic are:

• Mac App with GUI for Docker
• Create images from any folder with a Dockerfile in it
• Configure environment variables

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

• Serve container images on-demand using image names as content specifications
• Use private package sets from various sources
• Efficient serving of image layers from Google Cloud Storage

Kitematic and Nixery are both open source tools. It seems that Kitematic with 10.7K GitHub stars and 1.3K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Nixery with 550 GitHub stars and 16 GitHub forks.