Comparison
Rams vs Greptile
Greptile understands your whole codebase. Rams understands design. Different kinds of depth — and they complement each other.
Greptile is an AI code reviewer known for whole-codebase context: it indexes your repository so its PR comments understand how a change fits the larger system, catching cross-file issues and architectural inconsistencies a file-local reviewer would miss.
Rams brings a different kind of depth — not codebase breadth, but design expertise. It reviews the UI layer against 109 rules across 8 categories: accessibility, hierarchy, color, typography, spacing, components, motion, and AI-slop. Greptile reasons about how your code connects; Rams reasons about whether your interface is well-designed. On a UI PR, those are two different questions, and you want both answered.
Rams vs Greptile, side by side
| Dimension | Rams | Greptile |
|---|---|---|
| Primary strength | Design + accessibility depth | Whole-codebase context |
| Design quality (hierarchy, spacing, type) | Core focus | Not a focus |
| Accessibility (WCAG 2.2) | Yes — dedicated category | Not systematic |
| Design-system / token violations | Yes | No |
| AI-generated "slop" patterns | Yes — dedicated category | No |
| Cross-file / architectural issues | No — UI-focused | Yes — a strength |
| Inline one-click fixes | Yes — design fixes | Yes — general fixes |
| Design score over time | Yes | No |
Use Rams when you want to…
- Design and accessibility depth on UI pull requests
- Enforcing a design system without manual review
- Reviewing AI-generated UI for quality
- A design score to track UI quality over time
Use Greptile when you want to…
- Whole-codebase context and cross-file reasoning
- Architectural and integration-level review
- Catching issues that span many files
- Non-UI code review
The bottom line
Greptile gives you breadth-of-codebase context; Rams gives you depth-of-design judgment. They answer different questions about the same PR — how the change fits the system, and whether the interface is well-made — so running both gives UI-heavy teams the most complete review.
Common questions
Does Rams replace Greptile?
No. Greptile specializes in whole-codebase context; Rams specializes in design and accessibility. They are complementary — Greptile for architectural/cross-file reasoning, Rams for design depth on the UI layer.
Does Rams need full-codebase context like Greptile?
No. Rams reviews the UI files in a pull request against a fixed design ruleset, so it does not need to index your whole repo. That keeps it fast and config-free — install the GitHub App and every PR is reviewed.
Which should a design-heavy team choose?
If you must pick one for a UI-heavy product, Rams catches the design and accessibility issues that directly affect users. But the strongest setup is both: Greptile for codebase-wide reasoning, Rams for design depth.
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