Phacility vs PHPStan: What are the differences?

Developers describe Phacility as "Phabricator, except you pay for it. Hosted tools to scale your software organization". A hosted version of Phabricator, that you pay for. On the other hand, PHPStan is detailed as "PHP Static Analysis Tool - discover bugs in your code without running it!". It focuses on finding errors in your code without actually running it. It catches whole classes of bugs even before you write tests for the code. It moves PHP closer to compiled languages in the sense that the correctness of each line of the code can be checked before you run the actual line.

Phacility and PHPStan can be categorized as "Code Review" tools.

Some of the features offered by Phacility are:

• Review code
• Track tasks
• Browse source

On the other hand, PHPStan provides the following key features:

• Static Analysis Tool
• Focuses on finding errors in your code without actually running it
• Extensible

PHPStan is an open source tool with 7.35K GitHub stars and 535 GitHub forks. Here's a link to PHPStan's open source repository on GitHub.