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Realtime projects on GitHub

Spelled variant of real-time systems: instant sync, messaging, and live updates.

As of , the most-starred Realtime projects on GitHub are supabase (111.7K stars), Deep-Live-Cam (97.1K stars) and zed (91.8K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 54 Realtime repositories with 1.4M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was zed, with +54 stars in a day.

54Projects
1.4MStars in total
+408Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+54

zed

zed-industries/zed · ★ 91.8K

Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor built by the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, designed to feel extremely fast and support real-time collaboration.

+49

supabase

supabase/supabase · ★ 111.7K

Supabase is an open source Postgres development platform that gives you a hosted Postgres database plus auth, auto-generated APIs, realtime subscriptions, storage, and edge functions, built as an open source alternative to Firebase.

+49

frigate

blakeblackshear/frigate · ★ 36.7K

Frigate is a complete, local network video recorder (NVR) that performs realtime AI object detection on IP camera feeds, built specifically for tight integration with Home Assistant.

+22

redis

redis/redis · ★ 76.9K

Redis is an in-memory server used as a cache, data structure store, and document/vector query engine for building real-time, data-driven applications.

The all-time top

54 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · supabase/supabase

    supabase

    Supabase is an open source Postgres development platform that gives you a hosted Postgres database plus auth, auto-generated APIs, realtime subscriptions, storage, and edge functions, built as an open source alternative to Firebase.

    111.7K
  2. #2 · hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam

    Deep-Live-Cam

    Deep-Live-Cam is an app that performs real-time face swapping and one-click video deepfakes using just a single source image, working live through your webcam or on existing images/videos.

    97.1K
  3. #3 · zed-industries/zed

    zed

    Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor built by the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, designed to feel extremely fast and support real-time collaboration.

    91.8K
  1. 4

    redis

    76.9Kredis/redis · C

    Redis is an in-memory server used as a cache, data structure store, and document/vector query engine for building real-time, data-driven applications.

  2. 5

    socket.io

    63.2Ksocketio/socket.io · TypeScript

    Socket.IO is a library that enables bidirectional, low-latency, real-time communication between a Node.js server and clients such as browsers or mobile apps.

  3. 6

    pocketbase

    61.5Kpocketbase/pocketbase · Go

    PocketBase is an open source backend written in Go that packs an embedded SQLite database, realtime subscriptions, file and user management, an Admin dashboard UI, and a REST-ish API all into a single file.

  4. 7

    serviette

    58.8Kpathwaycom/serviette · Python

    This repo provides ready-to-run cloud templates for RAG pipelines, AI pipelines, and enterprise search, built on the Pathway Live Data Framework and kept in sync with live data sources.

  5. 8

    appwrite

    57.7Kappwrite/appwrite · TypeScript

    Appwrite is an open-source, all-in-one backend platform for building web, mobile, and AI apps, bundling authentication, databases, storage, serverless functions, messaging, realtime, and web hosting in one place.

  6. 9

    query

    50.4KTanStack/query · TypeScript

    TanStack Query is an async state management library that simplifies fetching, caching, synchronizing, and updating server state in web apps.

  7. 10

    meteor

    44.8Kmeteor/meteor · JavaScript

    Meteor is a full-stack JavaScript platform for building modern web, mobile, and desktop applications with a single codebase.

  8. 11

    outline

    40.9Koutline/outline · TypeScript

    Outline is a fast, collaborative knowledge base for teams — think a team wiki with realtime co-editing that works with Markdown.

  9. 12

    frigate

    36.7Kblakeblackshear/frigate · Python

    Frigate is a complete, local network video recorder (NVR) that performs realtime AI object detection on IP camera feeds, built specifically for tight integration with Home Assistant.

  10. 13

    influxdb

    31.8Kinfluxdata/influxdb · Rust

    InfluxDB 3 Core is an open source time series database built to collect, process, transform, and store event and time series data, written in Rust on top of Apache Arrow, DataFusion, and Parquet.

  11. 14

    nsq

    25.8Knsqio/nsq · Go

    NSQ is a realtime distributed messaging platform — a message queue built to operate at scale, handling billions of messages per day.

  12. 15

    websocket

    24.9Kgorilla/websocket · Go

    A Go implementation of the WebSocket protocol — a fast, well-tested and widely used Go package for WebSocket client-server communication.

  13. 16

    rxdb

    23.4Kpubkey/rxdb · TypeScript

    A local-first, reactive database for JavaScript apps: it runs inside your app, the UI can subscribe to query results or even single document fields, and it replicates with your existing backend - no vendor lock-in.

  14. 17

    phoenix

    23.2Kphoenixframework/phoenix · Elixir

    Phoenix is a web framework for Elixir that lets you build productive, reliable, fast applications, from prototype through to production.

  15. 18

    yjs

    22.9Kyjs/yjs · JavaScript

    Yjs is a CRDT framework for building collaborative software: shared data types like Map or Array whose changes are automatically distributed to peers and merged without merge conflicts.

  16. 19

    sails

    22.8Kbalderdashy/sails · JavaScript

    Sails.js is a realtime MVC web framework for Node.js, designed to make it easy to build custom, enterprise-grade apps and APIs, with a structure inspired by Ruby on Rails.

  17. 20

    neko

    22.5Km1k1o/neko · Go

    Neko is a self-hosted virtual browser that runs in Docker and streams its screen to viewers over WebRTC, so several people can browse and interact together in real time.

  18. 21

    livekit

    21.5Klivekit/livekit · Go

    LiveKit is an open-source realtime platform for voice, video, and physical AI. This repo is its server: a scalable, distributed WebRTC SFU that routes audio, video, and data between people, devices, and AI models in shared rooms.

  19. 22

    voice-changer

    21.2Kw-okada/voice-changer · Python

    It's VCClient, a real-time AI voice changer: it converts your microphone input on the fly so you can speak live with a different voice.

  20. 23

    gun

    19.1Kamark/gun · JavaScript

    GUN is an open source cybersecurity protocol for syncing decentralized graph data — a peer-to-peer database that keeps app data in sync across browsers and devices, with no master server and no single source of truth.

  21. 24

    uWebSockets

    19KuNetworking/uWebSockets · C++

    μWebSockets is a simple, secure and standards-compliant web server for demanding applications, built as a C++ library — so optimized for speed and memory that its TLS 1.3 encrypted messaging outruns most servers' cleartext.

  22. 25

    cat

    18.9Kdianping/cat · Java

    CAT is an open-source real-time application monitoring platform (APM) written in Java at Meituan-Dianping. It collects performance metrics, health status and alerts from your services and turns them into live reports.

  23. 26

    lila

    18.8Klichess-org/lila · Scala

    Lichess (lila) is the free, adless and open source online chess server behind lichess.org, focused on realtime play and ease of use.

  24. 27

    ZeroNet

    18.8KHelloZeroNet/ZeroNet · JavaScript

    ZeroNet is open-source software for a decentralized web: it lets you publish and visit websites that use Bitcoin cryptography and the BitTorrent network for distribution instead of a traditional hosting provider.

  25. 28

    instant-ngp

    17.6KNVlabs/instant-ngp · Cuda

    NVIDIA Research's implementation of four neural graphics primitives — neural radiance fields (NeRF), signed distance functions, neural images and neural volumes — fast enough to train a fox NeRF in under 5 seconds.

  26. 29

    realm-swift

    16.6Krealm/realm-swift · Objective-C

    Realm is an open-source mobile database that runs directly inside phones, tablets and wearables — an embedded replacement for Core Data & SQLite, not a client-server database.

  27. 30

    systeminformer

    16.3Kwinsiderss/systeminformer · C

    System Informer is a free, powerful multi-purpose tool for Windows that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware.

  28. 31

    server

    16.1Kgotify/server · Go

    Gotify is a simple self-hosted server for sending and receiving messages in real time over WebSocket, with a sleek web UI included.

  29. 32

    tushare

    15.5Kwaditu/tushare · Python

    TuShare is a Python utility for crawling, cleaning and storing historical and realtime data for China's stock and futures markets, built for quant analysts and anyone learning data analysis.

  30. 33

    Dexie.js

    14.6Kdexie/Dexie.js · TypeScript

    Dexie.js is a wrapper library for IndexedDB, the standard database in the browser. It makes local app data easy to work with and is widely used by 100,000s of web sites, apps and other projects.

  31. 34

    chat

    13.5Ktinode/chat · Go

    Tinode is an open-source instant messaging platform: a chat server written in Go with native clients for Android, iOS, web and a scriptable command line — like a self-hosted WhatsApp or Telegram, and explicitly not another Slack replacement.

  32. 35

    InsForge

    13.1KInsForge/InsForge · TypeScript

    InsForge is an all-in-one, open-source backend platform built for coding agents: it gives agents database, auth, storage, compute, hosting, and an AI gateway so they can ship full-stack apps end-to-end without a human wiring up the backend.

  33. 36

    iroh

    12.7Kn0-computer/iroh · Rust

    Iroh is a Rust library that lets you connect to other devices by dialing their public key instead of an IP address; it automatically finds and maintains the fastest connection—direct via hole-punching, or falling back to a relay—built on QUIC.

  34. 37

    redpanda

    12.6Kredpanda-data/redpanda · C++

    Redpanda is a streaming data platform that is wire-compatible with the Apache Kafka API but is built from the ground up in C++ to be lighter, faster, and simpler to operate.

  35. 38

    illa-builder

    12.3Killacloud/illa-builder · TypeScript

    ILLA Builder is an open source low-code platform for building internal tools like dashboards, CRUD apps, admin panels, CRMs, and CMSs. It is positioned as an open source alternative to Retool.

  36. 39

    WebRTC-Experiment

    12.1Kmuaz-khan/WebRTC-Experiment · JavaScript

    A one-stop hub of WebRTC demos, experiments and JavaScript libraries: screen sharing, video conferencing, file sharing, recording, collaborative drawing and voice translation.

  37. 40

    openai-node

    11.2Kopenai/openai-node · TypeScript

    This is the official TypeScript/JavaScript client library for the OpenAI REST API, auto-generated from OpenAI's OpenAPI specification, giving typed access to the Responses API, Chat Completions, Realtime API, and more.

  38. 41

    socket.io-client

    10.6Ksocketio/socket.io-client

    The official Socket.IO client: the browser and Node.js side of Socket.IO, a realtime application framework for exchanging events between clients and a server.

  39. 42

    uPlot

    10.6Kleeoniya/uPlot · JavaScript

    uPlot is a small (~50 KB min), fast, MIT-licensed JavaScript charting library for time series, line, area, OHLC and bar charts, drawn on Canvas 2D in the browser.

  40. 43

    RealtimeSTT

    10.2KKoljaB/RealtimeSTT · Python

    A Python speech-to-text library that turns microphone or streamed audio into text with low latency: voice activity detection, optional wake words, live partial text, and final transcripts in a few lines of code.

  41. 44

    livego

    10.2Kgwuhaolin/livego · Go

    livego is a simple, efficient live video streaming server written in pure Go: you push a video stream into it, and it re-serves that stream to viewers over RTMP, HTTP-FLV and HLS.

  42. 45

    codimd

    10.2Khackmdio/codimd · JavaScript

    A self-hosted web app for real-time collaborative markdown notes — the free, open-source version of HackMD. Your team or community writes together in the browser while you keep full control of the data.

  43. 46

    MOSS-TTS-Nano

    4.5KOpenMOSS/MOSS-TTS-Nano · Python

    MOSS-TTS-Nano is an open-source, 100M-parameter multilingual text-to-speech model from MOSI.AI and OpenMOSS that supports voice cloning, 48kHz stereo output, and real-time generation directly on CPU.

  44. 47

    cookbook

    4.1Kcursor/cookbook · TypeScript

    A collection of small, standalone examples for building on top of Cursor's agent platform, covering Cursor Hooks, self-hosted Cloud Agents, the Cursor SDK, a coding-agent CLI, and even third-party integrations with xAI's Grok.

  45. 48

    trystero

    2.8Kdmotz/trystero · TypeScript

    Trystero is a TypeScript library for building multiplayer web apps without any server: it makes browsers discover each other and connect directly over WebRTC, using public networks like BitTorrent or Nostr only for matchmaking.

  46. 49

    raft-source

    610botiverse/raft-source · TypeScript

    Raft is a shared workspace where humans and AI agents collaborate as peers, with agents acting as persistent participants that have their own identity, memory and capability scope and run as real processes on real machines.

  47. 50

    bluey-by-riley

    412rbrown101010/bluey-by-riley · Swift

    Googly Eyes is a blueberry character that lives on your iPhone screen and points at things on your Mac with his own cursor. It pairs a Mac menu bar app with an iPhone app so he can see your screen, talk through OpenAI's Realtime API, and even control your computer when asked.

  48. 51

    picomq

    373PicoMQ/picomq · Rust

    PicoMQ is a durable, real-time streaming system that stores its data on S3-compatible object storage instead of local disks, while speaking both a native HTTP protocol and the Kafka wire protocol.

  49. 52

    Companion-Space

    363Johnson-Durui/Companion-Space · Python

    Companion Space is a local-first anime-style companion and study app where you create separate spaces per topic, import your own materials, and chat via text or real-time voice with a VRM 3D character that helps you review and remember what you studied.

  50. 53

    interdimensional-game

    250blendi-remade/interdimensional-game · TypeScript

    It's LAST FRAME: a game that plays like a film generated in realtime. A video model renders every shot as you watch, and the model is the dice — if the frame shows your hero dangling from the ledge instead of making the leap, that's what happened.

  51. 54

    jargo

    102gojargo/jargo · Go

    Jargo is a WebRTC-native, audio-first conversational-AI framework for Go, used to build real-time voice agents with a streaming STT to LLM to TTS pipeline, turn-taking and barge-in.

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