Tally vs Lucide
Side-by-side trajectory, velocity, and editorial themes.
Tally adds PDF export, MCP polish, and editor ergonomics — bootstrapped grind, no big leaps.
Tally is in steady weekly-release mode. Headline shipping in April: one-click PDF export of any form submission (using the form's theme so output is on-brand and free), MCP integration improvements for AI-agent workflows, and editor productivity work — a floating table of contents on long forms, plus page-level conditional logic that landed in early March. The Trash modal got a redesign and a manual-empty option for compliance-conscious users.
Two threads run through the cadence: outputs (PDF export, themed templates) and editor scale (table of contents, page-level logic, MCP). Tally is rounding out the simple-form surface so it can stand in for contract/order-confirmation tools and so power users with 40-block forms can keep working in it. Bootstrapped pacing, no platform pivots — every release closes a specific user complaint.
Expect more output formats (signed PDFs with e-sig integrations, branded email confirmations) since the PDF release explicitly hooks into electronic signature workflows. The MCP work suggests more AI-driven form authoring or response handling is queued — easier to imagine "agent fills out a form" or "agent summarizes responses" than another form-design feature.
Lucide is in a steady icon-addition cadence — eight minor releases in six weeks, mostly community PRs.
Lucide is releasing roughly twice a week along the 1.x line, with each minor adding 1–6 community-contributed icons (blender, broccoli, sticky note variants, repeat-off, waves-vertical, folder-bookmark, astroid, heart-x, layers-minus, bell-check) and refining existing ones (text-cursor, landmark, candy-cane, volleyball). Framework adapters (Svelte, Vue, Angular, React) receive small fixes alongside. There is no structural work in this window — it is a contributor-flow optimization.
The project sits in healthy steady-state. Low-friction PR throughput, regular minor versions, and no large refactors suggest Lucide has settled into being the default fork-and-extend icon library for designers and the maintainers are protecting that contributor pipeline rather than pushing a roadmap. Framework adapter parity is being maintained in lockstep with the core icon set.
Expect another 1–2 icons (or refinement PRs) per minor over the next few weeks, plus a framework-adapter patch as upstream Svelte/Vite/Vue dependencies shift. No 2.0 cut is signaled in this window.
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