Kermit vs Napier

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Kermit		Napier
	Project
4	Mentions	3
635	Stars	692
1.7%	Growth	-
6.4	Activity	4.9
4 days ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
JavaScript	Language	Kotlin
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Kermit

Posts with mentions or reviews of Kermit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-28.

Which logging library do you use for KMP?
3 projects | /r/Kotlin | 28 Jan 2023

Using Kermit
Getting Started With Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile
7 projects | dev.to | 17 Feb 2022

Kermit The Log. This is a great logging library for KMM that is easy to use and created by Touchlab.
Kermit 1.0: A KMP Logging Library.
2 projects | /r/Kotlin | 9 Dec 2021

The oslog was not available in Kotlin's platform cinterop, so previously we directed people to copy/paste from Swift, but I think we can write a simple objc wrapper and cinterop that directly into a library. There's a ticket for that: https://github.com/touchlab/Kermit/issues/174

Napier

Posts with mentions or reviews of Napier. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-27.

Write Once, Run Everywhere: Building with KMM and Compose Multiplatform
2 projects | dev.to | 27 Jul 2023

Napier
Napier VS tinylog - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 22 Jun 2023
Which logging library do you use for KMP?
3 projects | /r/Kotlin | 28 Jan 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Kermit and Napier you can also consider the following projects:

ReKotlin - Unidirectional Data Flow in Kotlin - Port of https://github.com/ReSwift/ReSwift to Kotlin

logcat - I CAN HAZ LOGZ?

ktor - Framework for quickly creating connected applications in Kotlin with minimal effort

tinylog - tinylog is a lightweight logging framework for Java, Kotlin, Scala, and Android

ReSwift - Unidirectional Data Flow in Swift - Inspired by Redux

factastic - Useless facts every day! Here's an example of a multiplatform app with shared UI and network logic built with Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform for Android, iOS and Desktop.

kotlin-result - A multiplatform Result monad for modelling success or failure operations.

Ksoup - Ksoup is a lightweight Kotlin Multiplatform library for parsing HTML, extracting HTML tags, attributes, and text, and encoding and decoding HTML entities.

multiplatform-settings - A Kotlin Multiplatform library for saving simple key-value data

KaMPKit - KaMP Kit by Touchlab. A collection of code & tools designed to get your mobile team started quickly w/Kotlin Multiplatform

PeopleInSpace - Kotlin Multiplatform project with SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, Compose for Wear, Compose for Desktop, Compose for Web and Kotlin/JS + React clients along with Ktor backend.