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Freebsd projects on GitHub

The FreeBSD Unix-like operating system and its ecosystem.

As of , the most-starred Freebsd projects on GitHub are ohmyzsh (190.1K stars), bat (60.8K stars) and gitea (58.5K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 65 Freebsd repositories with 1.5M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was figcraft, with +325 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

+325

figcraft

storytold/figcraft · ★ 2.4K

FigCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Figma's interface design and prototyping workflows, rebuilt entirely in pure Rust as a native, offline-first app.

+211

vectorcraft

storytold/vectorcraft · ★ 9.7K

VectorCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Illustrator, built from scratch in pure Rust, aiming to replicate Illustrator's tools, panels and workflow.

+205

cadcraft

storytold/cadcraft · ★ 5.6K

CADCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of AutoCAD-style computer-aided design and drafting software, built entirely in pure Rust.

+164

craft-launcher

storytold/craft-launcher · ★ 3.2K

ArtCraft Launcher is a native app that installs, updates and opens every app in the Craft App Suite (PhotoCraft, LightCraft, FilmCraft, DesignCraft, VectorCraft, PdfCraft, EffectCraft, WordCraft, DeckCraft, GridCraft, CADCraft and SoundCraft) from one window instead of hunting through a dozen release pages.

The all-time top

65 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh

    ohmyzsh

    Oh My Zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration, with 300+ optional plugins and 150+ bundled themes for your terminal.

    190.1K
  2. #2 · sharkdp/bat

    bat

    bat is a cat(1) clone that prints files in the terminal with syntax highlighting for a large number of programming and markup languages, plus Git modification markers in the sidebar.

    60.8K
  3. #3 · go-gitea/gitea

    gitea

    Gitea is a self-hosted, all-in-one software development service: Git hosting, code review, issue tracking, project kanban, wiki, team collaboration, a package registry and CI/CD in one package.

    58.5K
  1. 4

    you-get

    56.9Ksoimort/you-get · Python

    You-Get is a tiny command-line utility that downloads media contents — videos, audios and images — from the web, for when there is no other handy way to save them.

  2. 5

    ClickHouse

    50.5KClickHouse/ClickHouse · C++

    ClickHouse is an open-source column-oriented database management system for generating analytical data reports in real time.

  3. 6

    acme.sh

    47.8Kacmesh-official/acme.sh · Shell

    acme.sh is a pure Unix shell script client for the ACME protocol that automatically issues, renews, and installs free SSL/TLS certificates from CAs like Let's Encrypt or ZeroSSL.

  4. 7

    Sunshine

    42.3KLizardByte/Sunshine · C++

    Sunshine is a self-hosted game streaming host that lets you play PC games remotely using any Moonlight client, with hardware-accelerated encoding on AMD, Intel, or Nvidia GPUs (or software encoding as a fallback).

  5. 8

    croc

    40.6Kschollz/croc · Go

    croc is a command-line tool that lets any two computers simply and securely transfer files and folders, using peer-to-peer transfer with a relay fallback and end-to-end encryption.

  6. 9

    OCRmyPDF

    35.1Kocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF · Python

    OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files so the text becomes searchable and copy-pasteable, while keeping the original image intact.

  7. 10

    btop

    35Karistocratos/btop · C++

    A terminal resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. It is the C++ version and continuation of bashtop and bpytop.

  8. 11

    shadPS4

    33.7Kshadps4-emu/shadPS4 · C++

    shadPS4 is an early PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD, written in C++. It lets you run real PS4 game titles on a PC.

  9. 12

    zeroclaw

    33Kzeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw · Rust

    ZeroClaw is a personal AI assistant runtime: a single Rust binary you configure and run yourself, which talks to LLM providers, listens on dozens of channels, and acts through tools like shell, browser and HTTP.

  10. 13

    deskflow

    29.8Kdeskflow/deskflow · C++

    A free, open-source app that lets the keyboard, mouse, or trackpad of one computer control several nearby computers, moving seamlessly between them — like a software KVM but without the video.

  11. 14

    spdlog

    29.7Kgabime/spdlog · C++

    spdlog is a very fast C++ logging library. It ships header-only or as a compiled library, and its message formatting is powered by the fmt library.

  12. 15

    authelia

    29.3Kauthelia/authelia · Go

    An open-source authentication and authorization server that adds single sign-on and two-factor authentication to your web apps via a web portal. It is OpenID Certified and Post-Quantum Cryptography Ready.

  13. 16

    ungoogled-chromium

    28Kungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium · Python

    ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium with the dependency on Google web services removed. It keeps the standard Chromium experience and adds privacy, control, and transparency tweaks.

  14. 17

    beads

    28Kgastownhall/beads · Go

    Beads provides a persistent, structured memory for coding agents. It replaces messy markdown plans with a dependency-aware graph, allowing agents to handle long-horizon tasks without losing context.

  15. 18

    glow

    27.7Kcharmbracelet/glow · Go

    Glow is a terminal-based markdown reader: it renders markdown files with style, discovers local markdown files for you, and lets you read documentation right on the command line.

  16. 19

    iTerm2-Color-Schemes

    27.3Kmbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes · Shell

    A community collection of over 750 color schemes for the iTerm2 terminal, with every scheme also ported to dozens of other terminals and editors.

  17. 20

    rethinkdb

    27Krethinkdb/rethinkdb · C++

    RethinkDB is an open-source, distributed NoSQL database built for realtime web applications; instead of making your app poll for changes, it pushes updated query results straight to you.

  18. 21

    masscan

    26.1Krobertdavidgraham/masscan · C

    Masscan is an Internet-scale TCP port scanner that transmits SYN packets asynchronously and can scan the entire IPv4 Internet in under 5 minutes, sending up to 10 million packets per second from a single machine.

  19. 22

    radare2

    25.1Kradareorg/radare2 · C

    r2 (radare2) is a libre reverse engineering framework for Unix-like systems: a set of libraries, tools and plugins for analyzing, disassembling, emulating, debugging and modifying binaries.

  20. 23

    delve

    24.9Kgo-delve/delve · Go

    Delve is a debugger for the Go programming language: a simple, full featured debugging tool designed to be easy to invoke and easy to use.

  21. 24

    simdjson

    24.4Ksimdjson/simdjson · C++

    A C++ library that parses JSON at gigabytes-per-second speed using SIMD instructions and microparallel algorithms. It ships in production systems like Node.js, ClickHouse and Meta Velox.

  22. 25

    witr

    22.7Kpranshuparmar/witr · Go

    witr answers one question: 'why is this running?' Point it at a process, port, container, or file, and it traces the exact chain of supervisors, services, and shells that started it.

  23. 26

    cosmopolitan

    21.4Kjart/cosmopolitan · C

    Cosmopolitan Libc makes C/C++ a build-once run-anywhere language: you compile once and the same native binary runs on Linux, Mac, Windows, the BSDs and even BIOS - like Java, but with no interpreter or virtual machine.

  24. 27

    FlameGraph

    19.8Kbrendangregg/FlameGraph · Perl

    Brendan Gregg's FlameGraph: a set of Perl scripts that turn captured stack traces into interactive SVG flame graphs for visualizing profiled code.

  25. 28

    asciinema

    17.9Kasciinema/asciinema · Rust

    It's a command-line tool for recording and live-streaming terminal sessions. Instead of heavyweight video, it saves lightweight asciicast (.cast) files you can replay in a terminal, embed on a web page, or publish to asciinema.org.

  26. 29

    hydra

    17.6Kory/hydra · Go

    Ory Hydra is an OpenID Certified OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect server, written in Go, that issues and validates tokens, manages clients, and orchestrates login and consent. Run it self-hosted or as a managed service on the Ory Network.

  27. 30

    redox

    16.6Kredox-os/redox · Rust

    Redox is an open-source operating system written in Rust that uses a microkernel architecture, aiming to be reliable, secure and usable while providing a full set of components like a file system, display server and core utilities.

  28. 31

    lynis

    16.5KCISOfy/lynis · Shell

    Lynis is a security auditing and hardening tool for Linux, macOS, BSD, and other Unix-like systems. It scans the host it runs on for vulnerable software, misconfigurations, and weak settings, and gives hardening tips while also assisting with compliance testing (HIPAA, ISO27001, PCI DSS).

  29. 32

    zapret

    16.3Kbol-van/zapret · C

    An autonomous DPI circumvention tool that needs no third-party servers. It can help bypass blocking or throttling of HTTP(S) sites and signature-based blocking of TCP and UDP protocols, such as VPN bans.

  30. 33

    py-spy

    15.6Kbenfred/py-spy · Rust

    py-spy is a sampling profiler for Python programs: it shows what a running Python process is spending its time on, without restarting it or modifying any code.

  31. 34

    duf

    15.3Kmuesli/duf · Go

    duf is a terminal utility for checking disk usage and free space — a user-friendly, better-looking alternative to df for Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows.

  32. 35

    go2rtc

    14.4KAlexxIT/go2rtc · Go

    An ultimate camera streaming app: it pulls video from IP cameras and other sources and re-serves it in low-latency formats like WebRTC, HLS and MP4 to browsers and smart home platforms, as a standalone app or embedded into any project.

  33. 36

    drogon

    14.3Kdrogonframework/drogon · C++

    Drogon is an open-source, MIT-licensed C++14/17/20 HTTP application framework for building web application server programs in C++ — from REST APIs to server-rendered sites and WebSocket apps.

  34. 37

    skynet

    14.2Kcloudwu/skynet · C

    Skynet is a lightweight, multi-user Lua framework built on the actor model, mainly used to build online game servers.

  35. 38

    nginx-rtmp-module

    14Karut/nginx-rtmp-module · C

    nginx-rtmp-module turns NGINX into a media streaming server, adding RTMP, HLS and MPEG-DASH live streaming plus RTMP video-on-demand playback of FLV/MP4 files.

  36. 39

    borg

    13.9Kborgbackup/borg · Python

    BorgBackup is a deduplicating backup program that supports optional compression and authenticated encryption. It's designed to let you run efficient, secure daily backups since it only stores changed data.

  37. 40

    ebiten

    13.6Khajimehoshi/ebiten · Go

    Ebitengine (formerly Ebiten) is an open source 2D game engine for Go: a simple API for building 2D games that deploy across many platforms.

  38. 41

    darktable

    13.3Kdarktable-org/darktable · C

    darktable is an open source photography workflow application and non-destructive raw developer: a virtual lighttable and darkroom that manages your photos in a database, lets you browse them, and develops/enhances/exports raw images.

  39. 42

    onedrive

    12.9Kabraunegg/onedrive · Python

    A free, open-source Microsoft OneDrive client for Linux that syncs files with OneDrive Personal, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft 365 and SharePoint document libraries.

  40. 43

    zfs

    12.5Kopenzfs/zfs · C

    OpenZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager that started life on Solaris and is now maintained by the OpenZFS community. This repository contains the code for running it on Linux and FreeBSD.

  41. 44

    vuls

    12.3Kfuture-architect/vuls · Go

    Vuls is an open-source, agent-less vulnerability scanner written in Go. It automatically detects vulnerabilities affecting your servers and can generate reports on a regular basis, for example via CRON.

  42. 45

    genact

    12.2Ksvenstaro/genact · Rust

    genact is a nonsense activity generator that fakes running intensive terminal tasks (compiling, downloading, bruteforcing, etc.) so you look busy without doing any real work.

  43. 46

    Waybar

    12.1KAlexays/Waybar · C++

    Waybar is a highly customizable status bar built for Wayland compositors like Sway, Hyprland, River, and other wlroots-based setups, with modules for things like battery, network, audio, and the clock.

  44. 47

    darwin-xnu

    11.3Kapple/darwin-xnu · C

    This is the source code of the XNU kernel, the core of Darwin, the operating system behind macOS and iOS. It is the kernel that ships on Apple devices, published as source for reading, building and debugging.

  45. 48

    bpytop

    10.9Karistocratos/bpytop · Python

    bpytop is a terminal resource monitor that shows real-time usage and stats for the processor, memory, disks, network, and running processes. It is a Python port and continuation of the earlier bashtop project.

  46. 49

    qt

    10.8Ktherecipe/qt · Go

    therecipe/qt is a set of Go language bindings for the Qt GUI toolkit, letting you build full native graphical applications entirely in Go (and also JavaScript/TypeScript, Dart/Flutter, Haxe or Swift).

  47. 50

    dicedb

    10.8Kdicedb/dicedb · C

    DiceDB is a fork of Valkey (itself a fork of Redis) that extends Valkey with extra capabilities, such as spilling evicted keys to disk, while staying fully compatible with the Valkey and Redis tooling and SDK ecosystem.

  48. 51

    vectorcraft

    9.7Kstorytold/vectorcraft · Rust

    VectorCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Illustrator, built from scratch in pure Rust, aiming to replicate Illustrator's tools, panels and workflow.

  49. 52

    tailcat

    8.4Ktailscale/tailcat · Go

    Tailcat is like netcat but running over Tailscale's encrypted data plane (WireGuard + magicsock + DERP) without needing Tailscale's control plane or a Tailscale account. One side runs a tailcat server and gets a short address; the other side connects to it, and traffic is end-to-end encrypted and NAT-traversed automatically.

  50. 53

    zapret2

    5.7Kbol-van/zapret2 · C

    An autonomous anti-DPI tool that modifies traffic on the fly so DPI systems cannot recognize or throttle it. It helps bypass blocking or slowdown of HTTP(S) sites and signature-based TCP/UDP analysis used to block VPNs — with no third-party servers involved.

  51. 54

    cadcraft

    5.6Kstorytold/cadcraft · Rust

    CADCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of AutoCAD-style computer-aided design and drafting software, built entirely in pure Rust.

  52. 55

    tuios

    5.5KGaurav-Gosain/tuios · Go

    TUIOS is a terminal window manager and multiplexer built in Go that adds tiling panes, workspaces, and persistent daemon-backed sessions on top of your terminal, with built-in awareness of what coding agents running in its panes are doing.

  53. 56

    vis

    5.1Kmartanne/vis · C

    Vis is a modern, vi(m)-like modal text editor that combines vi's editing style with sam's structural regular expression command language, adding native multiple cursors/selections and Unicode support.

  54. 57

    wireguard-go

    4.5KWireGuard/wireguard-go · Go

    wireguard-go is a userspace implementation of the WireGuard VPN written in Go: it runs as a normal program that creates a WireGuard network interface, instead of living inside the OS kernel.

  55. 58

    coost

    4.2Kidealvin/coost · C++

    coost (aka co) is a lightweight, high-performance, easy-to-use C++ base library whose stated goal is to make C++ programming simple and enjoyable.

  56. 59

    deckcraft

    3.7Kstorytold/deckcraft · Rust

    DeckCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft PowerPoint built in pure Rust, part of the ArtCraft family of 'Crafting Apps'.

  57. 60

    soundcraft

    3.2Kstorytold/soundcraft · Rust

    SoundCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Avid Pro Tools built entirely in pure Rust — a full digital audio workstation for recording, editing and mixing audio.

  58. 61

    craft-launcher

    3.2Kstorytold/craft-launcher · Rust

    ArtCraft Launcher is a native app that installs, updates and opens every app in the Craft App Suite (PhotoCraft, LightCraft, FilmCraft, DesignCraft, VectorCraft, PdfCraft, EffectCraft, WordCraft, DeckCraft, GridCraft, CADCraft and SoundCraft) from one window instead of hunting through a dozen release pages.

  59. 62

    figcraft

    2.4Kstorytold/figcraft · Rust

    FigCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Figma's interface design and prototyping workflows, rebuilt entirely in pure Rust as a native, offline-first app.

  60. 63

    libfyaml

    346pantoniou/libfyaml · C

    libfyaml is a high-performance YAML 1.2 and JSON parser/emitter for C, built for zero-copy operation with full document-tree and event-streaming APIs, and it passes the full YAML testsuite.

  61. 64

    mocktail

    341komaruworld/mocktail · C++

    Mocktail is an experimental compatibility runtime that runs the Android x86-64 Roblox client on Linux, and even on FreeBSD via its Linuxulator. It implements the Android ABI/JNI pieces the client needs and hooks them up to SDL3 and Vulkan or OpenGL on the host side.

  62. 65

    webserver

    177Qbix/webserver · PHP

    A web server written entirely in PHP that replaces the nginx + php-fpm stack: one process serves static files, PHP scripts, WebSocket connections, SSE and a live dashboard. The README claims it runs existing PHP codebases 10-100x faster.

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