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 11 Nov 2026, 17:20 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
22601	Mail Framework for C Language C · 15 years old	634	0	+2	+4	+13	-7	0	0.7x, slowing
22602	Synchronises Assets between Rails and S3 Ruby · 15 years old	1,892	0	0	0	+7	-7	0	0.5x, slowing
22603	Ruby lib for reading/writing/modifying .xlsx and .xlsm files HTML · 15 years old	1,322	0	0	0	+22	-7	0	0.8x, slowing
22604	Simple, elegant testing for Rails Engines Ruby · 15 years old	720	0	0	0	+3	-7	0	0.3x, slowing
22605	Robust RSS, Atom, and RDF feed parsing in Node.js JavaScript · 15 years old	1,972	0	-1	-1	+7	-7	0	0.5x, slowing
22606	BugSnag crash monitoring and reporting tool for Android apps Kotlin · 15 years old	1,246	0	-1	+1	+31	-7	0	0.8x, slowing
22607	JavaScript YAML parser and dumper. Very fast. TypeScript · 15 years old	6,641	0	+1	+9	+200	-7	0	1.0x, steady
22608	The best plugin for WordPress custom fields and custom meta boxes PHP · 15 years old	1,248	0	0	0	+37	-7	0	0.8x, slowing
22609	JS implementation of the Twig Templating Language JavaScript · 15 years old	1,932	0	0	0	+27	-7	0	0.8x, slowing
22610	A release plugin for sbt Scala · 15 years old	648	0	0	0	+1	-7	0	0.1x, slowing
22611	turtles, patches, and links for kids, teachers, and scientists Scala · 15 years old	1,195	+1	+4	+10	+92	-7	8	0.9x, slowing
22612	A library for compiling excel spreadsheets to python code & visualizing them as a graph Python · 15 years old	634	0	+1	+2	+32	-7	0	0.8x, slowing
22613	A PHP class that makes working with images and GD as simple as possible. PHP · 14 years old	1,388	0	+2	+3	+13	-7	0	0.7x, slowing
22614	node's assert.deepEqual algorithm JavaScript · 14 years old	793	0	+1	+1	+10	-7	0	0.6x, slowing
22615	The URL engine behind Iframely. Self-hosted parsers that turn links into metadata, previews and embeds. JavaScript · 14 years old	1,656	0	0	+7	+70	-7	0	0.9x, slowing
22616	Python low-interaction honeyclient Python · 14 years old	1,045	0	-1	-1	+34	-7	0	0.8x, slowing
22617	An OSGi-like C++ dynamic module system and service registry C++ · 14 years old	893	0	+1	+6	+43	-7	0	0.9x, slowing
22618	Apereo Java CAS Client Java · 14 years old	949	0	+1	+2	+19	-7	0	0.7x, slowing
22619	Mondrian is an Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) server that enables business users to analyze large quantities of data in real-time. Java · 14 years old	1,179	0	0	+1	+25	-7	0	0.8x, slowing
22620	Spring HATEOAS - Library to support implementing representations for hyper-text driven REST web services. Java · 14 years old	1,090	0	0	+1	+33	-7	0	0.8x, slowing
22621	CLI arguments parser for node.js. JS port of python's argparse module. JavaScript · 14 years old	516	0	+1	+4	+11	-7	0	0.6x, slowing
22622	MyBB is a free and open source forum software. PHP · 14 years old	1,251	+1	+4	+9	+96	-7	8	0.9x, slowing
22623	Add OAPI/swagger v2.0 compliant documentation to your grape API Ruby · 14 years old	1,101	0	-1	0	+8	-7	0	0.5x, slowing
22624	Allows cleaner DateTime expressions and operations C# · 14 years old	697	0	0	-1	+8	-7	0	0.5x, slowing
22625	An easy syntax to format your strings with colored fonts and backgrounds. Java · 14 years old	515	0	+1	+1	+14	-7	0	0.7x, slowing
22626	:computer: Parallel testing for PHPUnit PHP · 14 years old	2,518	0	0	+11	+114	-7	0	0.9x, slowing
22627	SeqAn's official repository. C++ · 14 years old	502	0	+1	+1	+11	-7	0	0.6x, slowing
22628	The oVirt Engine virtualization manager Java · 14 years old	618	0	+4	+7	+51	-7	0	0.9x, slowing
22629	Mixed-effects models in R using S4 classes and methods with RcppEigen HTML · 14 years old	699	0	-1	+2	+42	-7	0	0.9x, slowing
22630	😎 Tracy: the addictive tool to ease debugging PHP code for cool developers. Friendly design, logging, profiler, advanced features like debugging AJAX calls or CLI support. You will love it. PHP · 13 years old	1,836	0	0	+3	+49	-7	0	0.9x, slowing
22631	Error tracking and logging from Javascript to Rollbar JavaScript · 13 years old	589	0	+1	+2	+9	-7	0	0.6x, slowing
22632	A fast and sensitive gapped read aligner C++ · 13 years old	814	0	+1	+4	+70	-7	0	0.9x, slowing
22633	Deep Learning (Python, C, C++, Java, Scala, Go) Java · 13 years old	3,187	0	+2	+3	+67	-7	0	0.9x, slowing
22634	A database of PHP security advisories PHP · 13 years old	2,149	0	+1	+9	+61	-7	0	0.9x, slowing
22635	xLights is a sequencer for Lights. xLights has usb and E1.31 drivers. You can create sequences in this object oriented program. You can create playlists, schedule them, test your hardware, convert between different sequencers. C++ · 13 years old	762	0	+1	+8	+105	-7	0	0.9x, slowing
22636	Library and tools to parse and test proxy auto-config (PAC) files C · 13 years old	535	0	+1	+2	+15	-7	0	0.7x, slowing
22637	GnuCash Double-Entry Accounting Program. C · 13 years old	4,405	-1	+7	+31	+494	-7	0	1.0x, steady
22638	FSharp source code formatter F# · 13 years old	836	0	+1	+1	+39	-7	0	0.8x, slowing
22639	A lightweight, modular standard library extension, string library, and interfaces to various libraries (unix, threads, etc.) BSD license. OCaml · 13 years old	523	0	+1	+1	+17	-7	0	0.7x, slowing
22640	Chrome Status Dashboard Python · 13 years old	747	0	0	+2	+54	-7	0	0.9x, slowing
22641	Doujinshi downloader 绅士漫画下载 Python · 13 years old	810	0	+3	+5	+50	-7	0	0.9x, slowing
22642	WordPress plugin that lets you use Discourse as the community engine for a WordPress blog PHP · 13 years old	544	0	0	0	+12	-7	0	0.6x, slowing
22643	Java utilities for Bioinformatics Java · 13 years old	527	0	+1	+1	+19	-7	0	0.7x, slowing
22644	A VM with adaptive optimization and JIT compilation, built for Rakudo C · 13 years old	785	0	0	+3	+42	-7	0	0.9x, slowing
22645	Python Driver for Apache Cassandra® Python · 13 years old	1,429	0	0	0	+26	-7	0	0.8x, slowing
22646	My .vim dotfiles and configurations. Lua · 13 years old	644	0	0	0	+7	-7	0	0.5x, slowing
22647	Python IMAP for Agentic Workflows Python · 13 years old	1,220	0	+2	+2	+25	-7	0	0.8x, slowing
22648	E2guardian is a web content filter that can work in proxy, transparent or icap server modes HTML · 13 years old	541	0	+1	+3	+33	-7	0	0.8x, slowing
22649	Peak compute, memory bandwidth and latency of CPUs, GPUs and NPUs: the same tests through every API that reaches a device. Command line and app for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android C++ · 13 years old	533	0	0	+7	+63	-7	0	0.9x, slowing
22650	Chrome Dev Editor is a developer tool for building apps on the Chrome platform - Chrome Apps and Web Apps, in JavaScript or Dart. (NO LONGER IN ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT) Dart · 13 years old	2,902	-1	-2	-3	+7	-7	0	0.5x, slowing

Today counts stars since midnight US Pacific time, so it is a partial day. 32 more tracked repositories are still loading their star history and will join the ranking once it is complete.