bitHound vs Hound: What are the differences?

bitHound: Continuous analysis for Node.js projects. Identify risks and priorities in your dependencies and code. With faster deployment cycles, a hundred competing priorities and tight deadlines to juggle– your team has a lot on their plate. Uncover and focus on the critical issues impacting your team, avoid software pitfalls and ship with confidence; Hound: 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.

bitHound and Hound can be categorized as "Code Review" tools.

Some of the features offered by bitHound are:

• Do you know when your third party dependencies are at risk? bitHound gives you insight into the insecure, deprecated, outdated and unused packages impacting your software.
• We analyze your code to help your team determine where focus is needed. Understand the mechanical issues impacting your codebase, reduce complexity and clutter, and gain insights that go beyond the command line with bitHound.
• Whether it's formal issue management or the team's pending tech debt, it's important to get on top of these issues. bitHound offers an improved understanding of how the team is performing together and whether or not items are being left behind.

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

• Open source
• Free for public repos
• Automated reviews of GitHub pull requests for style guide violations

"Automatic dependency analysis" is the top reason why over 4 developers like bitHound, while over 3 developers mention "Comments on style so I don't have to" as the leading cause for choosing Hound.

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.