GitHub repositories taking off in the last year

Ranked by how many more stars each repo got in the last year than its pace over the 365 days before would predict. Star counts come from GitHub. Last updated 12 Nov 2026, 12:20 UTC.

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How the ranking works

Stars gained: New stars in the window. "all" means the repo is younger than the window, so the number is every star it has.
Today: Stars since midnight US Pacific time, so a partial day.
Above pace: How many more stars the repo got than its pace in the window before would predict. +500 means 500 more than usual.
Momentum: A daily score: 8 points per star and 2 per fork since midnight UTC, reduced for repos that are this busy every day.
Speed-up: Stars per day in the window divided by stars per day in the window before. "New" means the repo is younger than the window. "Under 14 days" (twice the window; "Under 2 years" for 1 year) means it is older than the window but too young for a full window before it to compare with.
Suspected: Repositories with at least 50 stars are left out as likely bought stars when they have no detected programming language and got those stars within a day of being created; or got them within 14 days while having no watchers, at most 1 fork, no detected language or under 1 KB of code other than HTML and CSS, and either 5 KB or less of files or an owner that is a personal account with at most 1 follower. Repositories with no detected language are also left out when, at any age, they have 5 KB or less of files and got at least 90% of their stars on a single day that ended more than a day ago; or have 5 KB or less of files and belong to a personal account with no followers that was created at most an hour before the repository. Any repository with at least 50 stars is also left out when, under 3 days old, it has no watchers and at least 5 forks and belongs to a personal account with no followers; it stays out while that account has no followers. Some repositories are also left out, or kept in, by hand after a review of the daily lists, whatever the rules above say. See them.
Bars: Stars per day (per week for 90 days and 1 year). Bright bars are the selected window. Heights use a square-root scale, so quieter days stay visible next to a spike.

#	Repository	Stars	Today	7d	30d	1y	Above pace ↑	Momentum	Speed-up
30801	Waterfall-style image viewer for macOS, offering a smooth and immersive browsing experience. Swift · 2 years old	1,383	0	+9	+40	+410	-47	8	0.9x, slowing
30802	A simple pip-installable Python tool to generate your HTML citation world map from your Google Scholar ID. Desktop App available for MacBook. Python · 2 years old	751	0	+9	+12	+137	-47	0	0.7x, slowing
30803	A curated list of best ai tools HTML · 14 months old	757	0	+4	+20	+355	-47	0	Under 2 years
30804	File and Image Management Application for django Python · 17 years old	1,851	0	-1	-1	+28	-48	0	0.4x, slowing
30805	Simple Python style checker in one Python file Python · 17 years old	5,166	0	+1	+7	+84	-48	0	0.6x, slowing
30806	Simple tagging for django Python · 16 years old	3,443	0	-1	-1	+49	-48	0	0.5x, slowing
30807	The Symfony documentation PHP · 16 years old	2,322	0	0	+4	+65	-48	0	0.6x, slowing
30808	django-reversion is an extension to the Django web framework that provides version control for model instances. Python · 16 years old	3,169	0	0	+2	+62	-48	0	0.6x, slowing
30809	Get your data in RAM. Get compute close to data. Enjoy the performance. Lua · 16 years old	3,684	0	0	+16	+138	-48	0	0.7x, slowing
30810	Doctrine2 ORM Data Fixtures Extensions PHP · 16 years old	2,845	0	-1	-2	+34	-48	0	0.4x, slowing
30811	A damn simple library for building production-ready RESTful web services. Java · 15 years old	8,581	0	+1	+4	+87	-48	0	0.6x, slowing
30812	The expl3 (LaTeX3) Development Repository TeX · 15 years old	2,135	0	0	+8	+112	-48	0	0.7x, slowing
30813	MVEL (MVFLEX Expression Language) Java · 15 years old	1,206	0	0	+3	+40	-48	0	0.5x, slowing
30814	A JavaScript library for generating vector-based cartoon faces TypeScript · 14 years old	1,367	0	+2	+3	+44	-48	0	0.5x, slowing
30815	Pannellum is a lightweight, free, and open source panorama viewer for the web. JavaScript · 14 years old	4,924	0	+6	+16	+331	-48	0	0.9x, slowing
30816	A .NET MIME creation and parser library with support for S/MIME, PGP, DKIM, TNEF and Unix mbox spools. C# · 14 years old	2,011	0	+1	+4	+78	-48	0	0.6x, slowing
30817	Boost.org asio module C++ · 13 years old	1,629	0	+1	+11	+185	-48	0	0.8x, slowing
30818	The simplest way to group temporal data Ruby · 13 years old	3,886	0	0	0	+37	-48	0	0.4x, slowing
30819	Official Python client for Elasticsearch Python · 13 years old	4,397	0	+1	+6	+94	-48	0	0.7x, slowing
30820	Code for the "Graphics Gems" book series C · 13 years old	1,527	0	+3	+5	+55	-48	0	0.5x, slowing
30821	Privacy Badger is a browser extension made by EFF to stop companies from spying on you online JavaScript · 13 years old	3,887	+1	+1	+24	+372	-48	8	0.9x, slowing
30822	You were probably looking for our website... this is it. We moved our website here, so you can see the insides of how we work. 13 years old	1,723	0	+1	+4	+73	-48	0	0.6x, slowing
30823	Orocos Kinematics and Dynamics C++ library C++ · 13 years old	909	0	+2	+6	+87	-48	0	0.6x, slowing
30824	A deck tracker and deck manager for Hearthstone on Windows C# · 12 years old	4,933	0	+1	+16	+162	-48	0	0.8x, slowing
30825	A complete date/time library for Elixir projects. Elixir · 12 years old	1,805	0	+1	-1	+9	-48	0	0.2x, slowing
30826	PNG encoder and decoder in C and C++. C++ · 12 years old	2,357	0	+2	+9	+122	-48	0	0.7x, slowing
30827	Quickly search the built-in iOS dictionary to see definitions of words. Collect words you want to remember. Swift · 11 years old	716	0	+1	+6	+61	-48	0	0.6x, slowing
30828	Custom Minecraft Classic / ClassiCube client written in C from scratch (formerly ClassicalSharp in C#) C · 11 years old	2,090	0	+3	+17	+327	-48	0	0.9x, slowing
30829	Apache TinkerPop - a graph computing framework Java · 11 years old	2,155	0	0	+9	+79	-48	0	0.6x, slowing
30830	No description 11 years old	1,672	0	-1	0	+31	-48	0	0.4x, slowing
30831	A Collection of Hacks in IoT Space so that we can address them (hopefully). 11 years old	2,445	0	+3	+16	+153	-48	0	0.8x, slowing
30832	image to enable automated backups of mysql databases in containers Go · 11 years old	761	0	0	+1	+39	-48	0	0.4x, slowing
30833	Dynamic Kernel Module System Shell · 11 years old	875	0	-1	+5	+85	-48	0	0.6x, slowing
30834	DisplayLink driver installer for Debian and Ubuntu based Linux distributions. Shell · 10 years old	1,462	0	+3	+7	+84	-48	0	0.6x, slowing
30835	Official C# support for Visual Studio Code TypeScript · 10 years old	3,081	0	+3	+11	+115	-48	0	0.7x, slowing
30836	:leaves: A curated list of awesome MongoDB resources, libraries, tools and applications 10 years old	2,681	0	0	+6	+103	-48	0	0.7x, slowing
30837	No description Java · 10 years old	1,691	0	+1	+2	+28	-48	0	0.4x, slowing
30838	Python module for handling audio metadata Python · 10 years old	1,984	0	+2	+14	+205	-48	8	0.8x, slowing
30839	LAPACK development repository Fortran · 10 years old	1,920	0	+1	+11	+193	-48	0	0.8x, slowing
30840	Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) for Python makes it easy to authenticate to Microsoft Entra ID. General docs are available here https://learn.microsoft.com/entra/msal/python/ Stable APIs are documented here https://msal-python.readthedocs.io. Questions can be asked on www.stackoverflow.com with tag "msal" + "python". Python · 10 years old	979	0	+3	+8	+66	-48	0	0.6x, slowing
30841	Python Social Auth - Application - Django Python · 10 years old	2,149	0	+1	+2	+53	-48	0	0.5x, slowing
30842	Query and format a set of opening hours PHP · 10 years old	1,721	0	0	+2	+26	-48	0	0.4x, slowing
30843	Kotlin MQTT client for Android Kotlin · 10 years old	624	0	0	0	+72	-48	0	0.6x, slowing
30844	AI Infra / AI Orchestration / AI Control Plane MDX · 9 years old	3,747	0	0	+5	+80	-48	0	0.6x, slowing
30845	A dynamic language and bytecode vm C · 9 years old	4,481	0	+6	+30	+499	-48	0	0.9x, slowing
30846	The Functional toolkit for Kotlin HTTP applications. http4k provides a simple and uniform way to serve, consume, and test HTTP services. Kotlin · 9 years old	2,791	0	0	+1	+89	-48	0	0.7x, slowing
30847	AsyncAPI specification website TypeScript · 9 years old	717	0	0	+2	+92	-48	0	0.7x, slowing
30848	Header only C11 tiny glTF 2.0 library HTML · 9 years old	2,556	0	-1	+8	+255	-48	8	0.8x, slowing
30849	A fast medical imaging analysis library in Python with algorithms for registration, segmentation, and more. Python · 9 years old	892	0	+1	+2	+108	-48	0	0.7x, slowing
30850	Yet Another Dialog C · 9 years old	950	0	+3	+7	+118	-48	0	0.7x, slowing

Today counts stars since midnight US Pacific time, so it is a partial day.