Kitematic vs Weave: What are the differences?

Kitematic: The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac. Simple Docker App management for Mac OS X; Weave: Weave creates a virtual network that connects Docker containers deployed across multiple hosts. Weave can traverse firewalls and operate in partially connected networks. Traffic can be encrypted, allowing hosts to be connected across an untrusted network. With weave you can easily construct applications consisting of multiple containers, running anywhere.

Kitematic and Weave 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, Weave provides the following key features:

• Virtual Ethernet Switch
• Application isolation
• Security

"I like it because it sucks" is the top reason why over 4 developers like Kitematic, while over 2 developers mention "Easy setup" as the leading cause for choosing Weave.

Kitematic and Weave are both open source tools. It seems that Kitematic with 10.5K GitHub stars and 1.26K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Weave with 5.57K GitHub stars and 517 GitHub forks.

Excursiopedia, Tutum, and PlanetPass are some of the popular companies that use Weave, whereas Kitematic is used by Docker, Car Throttle, and Athento. Weave has a broader approval, being mentioned in 11 company stacks & 4 developers stacks; compared to Kitematic, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.