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, lowest first. Star counts come from GitHub. Last updated 10 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
23451	Efficient tree implementations for Django Python · 16 years old	1,226	0	0	+1	+69	+14	0	1.3x faster
23452	⬡ JavaScript client library for integrating remoteStorage in apps JavaScript · 16 years old	2,427	0	0	+5	+69	+14	0	1.3x faster
23453	Platform-independent Qt API for storing passwords securely. C++ · 14 years old	512	0	+1	+5	+59	+14	0	1.3x faster
23454	Manage filesystem snapshots and allow undo of system modifications C++ · 14 years old	1,187	0	+4	+13	+162	+14	0	1.1x faster
23455	A browser extension for custom keyboard shortcuts TypeScript · 14 years old	1,259	+1	0	+4	+139	+14	8	1.1x faster
23456	Avogadro libraries provide 3D rendering, visualization, analysis and data processing useful in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. C++ · 14 years old	703	0	+3	+19	+137	+14	8	1.1x faster
23457	Import Map Package Manager TypeScript · 13 years old	3,866	0	-1	0	+73	+14	0	1.2x faster
23458	Simple Theorem Prover, an efficient SMT solver for bitvectors, floating-point and arrays. C++ · 13 years old	594	0	0	+3	+44	+14	0	1.5x faster
23459	The BGP swiss army knife of networking Python · 13 years old	2,317	0	+2	+7	+136	+14	0	1.1x faster
23460	The Leek group guide to data sharing 13 years old	6,797	+1	+7	+27	+191	+14	8	1.1x faster
23461	Reverse engineered Linux driver for the FacetimeHD (Broadcom 1570) PCIe webcam C · 12 years old	1,516	0	0	+6	+102	+14	0	1.2x faster
23462	a package of Pentest scripts I have made or commonly use Python · 12 years old	642	0	0	0	+30	+14	0	1.9x faster
23463	Browser forensics tool for Google Chrome, other Chromium-based browsers, and Mozilla Firefox Python · 12 years old	1,554	0	+2	+18	+255	+14	0	1.1x faster
23464	A powerful todo list application for the console, using the todo.txt format. Python · 12 years old	946	+1	+3	+4	+96	+14	18	1.2x faster
23465	Military Symbols in JavaScript JavaScript · 12 years old	823	+1	+3	+11	+143	+14	16	1.1x faster
23466	Contributor License Agreement assistant (CLA assistant) JavaScript · 12 years old	1,560	0	+5	+18	+126	+14	0	1.1x faster
23467	A resizable widget that shows your financial portfolio on your iOS or Android home screen Kotlin · 11 years old	581	0	+1	+7	+77	+14	0	1.2x faster
23468	Heavily optimized library for DEFLATE/zlib/gzip compression and decompression C · 11 years old	1,325	0	+2	+25	+168	+14	0	1.1x faster
23469	Additional files and scripts to help build Git for Windows on MSYS2. Inno Setup · 11 years old	675	0	-1	-1	+33	+14	0	1.7x faster
23470	Facebook Open Switching System Software for controlling network switches. C++ · 11 years old	1,002	0	0	+11	+80	+14	0	1.2x faster
23471	Audio Editor C++ · 11 years old	19,008	0	+58	+330	+3,399	+14	29	1.0x, steady
23472	Set of community add-ons for Altium Designer Pascal · 11 years old	598	0	+4	+11	+67	+14	0	1.3x faster
23473	All SVG icons available on https://game-icons.net Shell · 11 years old	1,367	0	+1	+11	+155	+14	0	1.1x faster
23474	Kiwix for iOS, iPadOS & macOS Swift · 11 years old	815	+1	+6	+23	+176	+14	8	1.1x faster
23475	The GNU Privacy Guard. NOTE: Maintainers are not tracking this mirror. Do not make pull requests here, nor comment any commits, submit them usual way to bug tracker (https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/bts.html) or to the mailing list (https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/mailing-lists.html). C · 11 years old	1,001	+1	+4	+12	+157	+14	8	1.1x faster
23476	Get image size without full download. Supported image types: JPG, GIF, PNG, WebP, BMP, TIFF, SVG, PSD, ICO. JavaScript · 11 years old	1,032	0	+1	+1	+36	+14	0	1.6x faster
23477	A Node.js client for Datadog's DogStatsD server, InfluxDB's Telegraf StatsD server, the OpenTelemetry Collector StatsD receiver, and Etsy's StatsD server. JavaScript · 11 years old	567	0	+1	+2	+30	+14	0	1.9x faster
23478	free and open source voxel art tools - editor, thumbnailer and format converter C · 11 years old	1,441	0	0	+18	+186	+14	0	1.1x faster
23479	:bookmark: Personal mini-web in text Python · 11 years old	7,256	0	+9	+42	+444	+14	0	1.0x, steady
23480	Remembering the lovely eSheep (stray sheep) from 1995 - C# · 10 years old	1,171	0	+4	+14	+143	+14	0	1.1x faster
23481	The Apache Guacamole web application, official extensions, and JavaScript library. Java · 10 years old	1,752	0	+3	+22	+193	+14	0	1.1x faster
23482	SPIRV-Cross is a practical tool and library for performing reflection on SPIR-V and disassembling SPIR-V back to high level languages. GLSL · 10 years old	2,555	0	+4	+33	+262	+14	0	1.1x faster
23483	Free Security and Hacking eBooks 10 years old	5,023	0	+8	+30	+407	+14	8	1.0x, steady
23484	⚙️ Python API / wrapper for tmux Python · 10 years old	1,217	0	0	+4	+118	+14	0	1.1x faster
23485	Builder images and examples commonly used for Google Cloud Build Go · 10 years old	1,467	0	0	+2	+56	+14	0	1.3x faster
23486	Extended information (especially license and layer details) about the published Official Images Perl · 10 years old	612	+1	+1	+4	+39	+14	10	1.6x faster
23487	Team shifts plugin for eventyay Python · 10 years old	1,513	0	+2	+3	+33	+14	0	1.7x faster
23488	Applets for the Cinnamon desktop JavaScript · 9 years old	768	0	-1	+6	+94	+14	0	1.2x faster
23489	An R-tool for comprehensive science mapping analysis. A package for quantitative research in scientometrics and bibliometrics. R · 9 years old	676	0	+1	+11	+96	+14	0	1.2x faster
23490	An OpenAPI specification for the Stripe API. 9 years old	510	0	+3	+6	+70	+14	0	1.3x faster
23491	Pay-what-you-can app store for elementary OS Vala · 9 years old	556	0	0	+1	+24	+14	0	2.4x faster
23492	The Vellvm (Verified LLVM) coq development. LLVM · 9 years old	505	0	+2	+10	+62	+14	0	1.3x faster
23493	A dataset with political datasets R · 9 years old	768	0	+2	+14	+80	+14	0	1.2x faster
23494	🌌 A collaborative list of awesome software for exploring Physics concepts 9 years old	659	0	+8	+12	+91	+14	0	1.2x faster
23495	A minimal specification for purl aka. a package "mostly universal" URL, join the discussion at https://gitter.im/package-url/Lobby Python · 8 years old	1,127	0	+5	+12	+233	+14	0	1.1x faster
23496	A hyperparameter optimization framework Python · 8 years old	15,028	+1	+21	+132	+2,185	+14	44	1.0x, steady
23497	🇵🇹 Lista de repositórios de dados abertos em Portugal 8 years old	523	0	+2	+6	+55	+14	0	1.3x faster
23498	Self-hosted music scrobble database to create personal listening statistics and charts Python · 7 years old	1,860	0	+4	+30	+378	+14	0	1.0x, steady
23499	Resilience engineering papers 7 years old	3,077	0	+1	+10	+90	+14	8	1.2x faster
23500	🛒 Storage for Activities located at our Activity Library. TypeScript · 7 years old	797	+1	+1	+9	+119	+14	8	1.1x faster

Today counts stars since midnight US Pacific time, so it is a partial day. 68 more tracked repositories are still loading their star history and will join the ranking once it is complete.