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Overlay projects on GitHub

UI overlays that dim the page to highlight elements, as in onboarding tours

As of , the most-starred Overlay projects on GitHub are driver.js (26.9K stars), ZeroTierOne (17.2K stars) and OptiScaler (11.8K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 7 Overlay repositories with 66.1K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was lolPing, with +103 stars in a day.

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66.1KStars in total
+235Stars in a day
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+103

lolPing

darrenprx/lolPing · ★ 1.5K

lolPing puts the League of Legends ping wheel and emote wheel onto your whole desktop: hold Alt (Option on a Mac), drag, and let go on a slice to play the original ping animation and sound over any app, on any monitor.

+88

DmNote

DmNote-App/DmNote · ★ 3.7K

DM Note is a customizable key viewer (key overlay) that shows your keypresses in real time, built for DJMAX RESPECT V but usable with any game for streaming or recording.

+17

BongoCat

vladelaina/BongoCat · ★ 3.8K

BongoCat is an animated desktop pet: a bongo-drumming cat that lives on your screen and reacts to your keyboard and mouse input in real time, built with C/C++, SDL3, and OpenGL.

+16

OptiScaler

optiscaler/OptiScaler · ★ 11.8K

OptiScaler is a Windows tool for PC games that lets you replace the upscaler a game uses (DLSS2+, FSR2+ or XeSS) with a different one, and also manage frame generation — including adding it to DX12 games via the experimental OptiFG.

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7 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · nilbuild/driver.js

    driver.js

    Driver.js is a lightweight JavaScript library for building product tours, feature introductions, and spotlight overlays that guide user focus on a webpage.

    26.9K
  2. #2 · zerotier/ZeroTierOne

    ZeroTierOne

    ZeroTier is a smart programmable Ethernet switch: it makes your devices, VMs, containers, and apps talk to each other as if they all lived in the same data center or cloud region, wherever they physically are.

    17.2K
  3. #3 · optiscaler/OptiScaler

    OptiScaler

    OptiScaler is a Windows tool for PC games that lets you replace the upscaler a game uses (DLSS2+, FSR2+ or XeSS) with a different one, and also manage frame generation — including adding it to DX12 games via the experimental OptiFG.

    11.8K
  1. 4

    BongoCat

    3.8Kvladelaina/BongoCat · C

    BongoCat is an animated desktop pet: a bongo-drumming cat that lives on your screen and reacts to your keyboard and mouse input in real time, built with C/C++, SDL3, and OpenGL.

  2. 5

    DmNote

    3.7KDmNote-App/DmNote · TypeScript

    DM Note is a customizable key viewer (key overlay) that shows your keypresses in real time, built for DJMAX RESPECT V but usable with any game for streaming or recording.

  3. 6

    lolPing

    1.5Kdarrenprx/lolPing · TypeScript

    lolPing puts the League of Legends ping wheel and emote wheel onto your whole desktop: hold Alt (Option on a Mac), drag, and let go on a slice to play the original ping animation and sound over any app, on any monitor.

  4. 7

    NeuralScreen

    1.1Kperseval-BLR/NeuralScreen · Python

    NeuralScreen applies NVIDIA's DLSS 5 neural renderer to your entire Windows desktop in real time, so games, video and photos all get sharpened by the same network DLSS 5 games use, not just upscaled in one app.

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