Trending on GitHub

Every open-source tool in our database with a public GitHub repository is listed here, all 141 of them, ranked by how many stars they gained over the period you select. Stars are GitHub's bookmark button: developers star a repo to follow it or to signal approval, which makes star growth a useful proxy for momentum in the developer community.

An automated job takes a snapshot of every repo's star count once a day, early morning (UTC). Each snapshot is kept, so the history grows day by day. We have been tracking since June 10, 2026.

When you pick a period, we find the newest snapshot that is at least that old and use it as the baseline. The growth figure next to each tool is simply stars today - stars at baseline, and the chart is sorted by that difference, biggest gain first. Ties are broken by total stars. A negative number means more people un-starred the project than starred it during that period. It happens.

Two edge cases. If a period reaches further back than our history does, we show growth since tracking began instead. And projects added to the database after the baseline snapshot have no growth figure yet, so they drop to the bottom, ordered by total stars, until the next snapshot picks them up.

The thin bar under each star count shows total stars relative to the biggest project on the chart. That way you can tell at a glance whether a fast climber is a scrappy newcomer or an established giant.

One thing this chart deliberately does not measure: privacy. Stars track popularity with developers, not how well a tool protects you. Our actual recommendations, with reasoning, live on the category pages.