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Local projects on GitHub

Tools that run services or data locally on a developer machine.

As of October 19, 2026, the most-starred Local projects on GitHub are shadowsocks (33.5K stars), brackets (33K stars) and passport (23.5K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 12 Local repositories with 212.7K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was zvec, with +4 stars in a day.

12Projects

212.7KStars in total

+18Stars in a day

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

zvec

alibaba/zvec · ★ 16.1K

Alibaba's open-source, in-process vector database — a lightweight, lightning-fast similarity-search engine you embed directly into your application, battle-tested inside Alibaba Group.

darktable

darktable-org/darktable · ★ 13.3K

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.

localtunnel

localtunnel/localtunnel · ★ 22.5K

localtunnel exposes a localhost server to the public internet with a temporary public URL, without needing to configure DNS or deploy anywhere.

PHPMailer

PHPMailer/PHPMailer · ★ 22.3K

PHPMailer is a full-featured email creation and transfer class for PHP — probably the world's most popular code for sending email from PHP, used by WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, Yii, SugarCRM and many other open-source projects.

The all-time top

12 projects · by stars

#1 · shadowsocks/shadowsocks
shadowsocks
An encrypted SOCKS5 proxy for getting private traffic past censorship — that is what the repo's own tags (proxy, socks5, encryption, censorship) describe. It is written in Python, has been on GitHub since April 2012, and holds about 33.5k stars.
33.5K
#2 · adobe/brackets
brackets
An open-source code editor for web development, focused on HTML, CSS and JavaScript, itself written in those same web technologies and originally built by Adobe.
33K
#3 · jaredhanson/passport
passport
Passport is Express-compatible authentication middleware for Node.js. Its sole purpose is authenticating requests, which it does through an extensible set of plugins called strategies.
23.5K

4
localtunnel
22.5Klocaltunnel/localtunnel · JavaScript
localtunnel exposes a localhost server to the public internet with a temporary public URL, without needing to configure DNS or deploy anywhere.
5
PHPMailer
22.3KPHPMailer/PHPMailer · PHP
PHPMailer is a full-featured email creation and transfer class for PHP — probably the world's most popular code for sending email from PHP, used by WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, Yii, SugarCRM and many other open-source projects.
6
rbenv
16.7Krbenv/rbenv · Shell
rbenv is a version manager for the Ruby programming language on Unix-like systems. It lets you install multiple Ruby versions and switch between them per-project so each app runs on the Ruby version it needs.
7
zvec
16.1Kalibaba/zvec · C++
Alibaba's open-source, in-process vector database — a lightweight, lightning-fast similarity-search engine you embed directly into your application, battle-tested inside Alibaba Group.
8
http-server
14.2Khttp-party/http-server · JavaScript
http-server is a simple, zero-configuration command-line static HTTP server: point it at a folder and it serves the files over HTTP. The README says it is powerful enough for production usage, yet simple and hackable enough to be used for testing, local development and learning.
9
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.
10
hotel
10Ktypicode/hotel · JavaScript
Hotel is a simple process manager for developers: you start your apps from the browser and reach them through local .localhost domains with HTTPS set up automatically.
11
echotrace
3.8Kycccccccy/echotrace
EchoTrace is a fully local, offline tool for decrypting your WeChat chat history so you can browse it offline, export it as HTML to share with friends, and automatically generate a personalized annual chat report.
12
surf
3.6Kdeta/surf · TypeScript
Deta Surf is a personal AI notebook that brings your files and webpages into one place and lets you generate AI-written notes from them, so research and writing happen in the same stream instead of jumping between apps.