govips VS imagick

Compare govips vs imagick and see what are their differences.

govips

A lightning fast image processing and resizing library for Go (by davidbyttow)

imagick

Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API (by gographics)
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govips imagick
5 3
1,112 1,682
- 1.0%
7.1 3.3
8 days ago 28 days ago
Go Go
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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govips

Posts with mentions or reviews of govips. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-28.
  • Just In Time Image Optimization at Reddit Scale
    3 projects | /r/RedditEng | 28 Jun 2023
    We chose to use govips which is a cgo wrapper around the libvips image manipulation library. The majority of new development for services in our backend is written using baseplate.go. But Go is not an ideal choice for media processing as it cannot keep up with the performance of native code. The most widely used image-processing libraries like libmagick are primarily written in C or C++. Speed was a major factor in selecting libvips in order to keep latency low on CDN cache misses for images. In our tests, libvips was 3–4 times faster than libmagick on basic image processing operations. Content-aware smart cropping was implemented by porting smartcrop.js to Go. This is the only operation implemented in pure Go.
  • Image manipulation with Go
    8 projects | /r/golang | 31 Dec 2021

imagick

Posts with mentions or reviews of imagick. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing govips and imagick you can also consider the following projects:

libvips - A fast image processing library with low memory needs.

OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library

OpenImageIO - Reading, writing, and processing images in a wide variety of file formats, using a format-agnostic API, aimed at VFX applications.

bimg - Go package for fast high-level image processing powered by libvips C library

FreeImage - A custom distribution of FreeImage, with a CMake-based build system. Used by the Athena Game Framework.

CImg - The CImg Library is a small and open-source C++ toolkit for image processing

imaginary - Fast, simple, scalable, Docker-ready HTTP microservice for high-level image processing

go-cairo - Go binding for the cairo graphics library

go-webp - Simple and fast webp library for golang

Boost.GIL - Boost.GIL - Generic Image Library | Requires C++14 since Boost 1.80

go-gd - Go bingings for GD (http://www.boutell.com/gd/)

GD - GD Graphics Library