ODE vs Chipmunk

ODE

By apache

Physics

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Chipmunk

A fast and lightweight 2D game physics library. (by slembcke)

Physics C 2D 2d-physics rigid-body

Source Code

chipmunk2d.net

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ODE		Chipmunk
	Project
-	Mentions	3
43	Stars	2,098
-	Growth	-
0.3	Activity	1.6
-	Latest Commit	8 days ago
Java	Language	C
-	License	MIT License

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.

ODE

Posts with mentions or reviews of ODE. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning ODE yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Chipmunk

Posts with mentions or reviews of Chipmunk. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-29.

how to simulate rolling friction with Chipmunk2D?
2 projects | /r/gamedev | 29 Dec 2022
Most Popular C[++] Open-Source Physics Engines
9 projects | /r/gamedev | 14 Nov 2021
Unable to find info on how to handle collision response.
2 projects | /r/gamedev | 5 Mar 2021

Chipmunk2D

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ODE and Chipmunk you can also consider the following projects:

Bullet - Bullet Physics SDK: real-time collision detection and multi-physics simulation for VR, games, visual effects, robotics, machine learning etc.

Box2D - Box2D is a 2D physics engine for games

PhysX - NVIDIA PhysX SDK

LiquidFun - 2D physics engine for games

CHRONO - High-performance C++ library for multiphysics and multibody dynamics simulations

Newton Dynamics - Newton Dynamics is an integrated solution for real time simulation of physics environments.

Simbody - High-performance C++ multibody dynamics/physics library for simulating articulated biomechanical and mechanical systems like vehicles, robots, and the human skeleton.

ofxBox2d - Openframework wrapper for box2d