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Software projects on GitHub

Curated collections of useful software across platforms.

As of , the most-starred Software projects on GitHub are public-apis (490.6K stars), awesome-selfhosted (328.4K stars) and awesome-mac (116.5K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 22 Software repositories with 1.3M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 19 was public-apis, with +480 stars in a day.

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+1.1KStars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 19

+480

public-apis

public-apis/public-apis · ★ 490.6K

A collective list of free APIs: a huge, manually curated catalog of public APIs for developers, maintained by the community for years. You do not call it — you browse the catalog and pick third-party APIs to use in your own product.

+378

awesome-selfhosted

awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted · ★ 328.4K

It is a curated list of free-software network services and web applications that you can host yourself instead of relying on third-party SaaS providers.

+85

awesome-mac

jaywcjlove/awesome-mac · ★ 116.5K

It is a curated, categorized list of high-quality macOS software, covering everything from text editors and developer tools to design apps, utilities, and security tools.

+35

Ghost-Downloader-3

XiaoYouChR/Ghost-Downloader-3 · ★ 10.1K

Ghost Downloader is a cross-platform desktop download manager that handles HTTP, BitTorrent/Magnet, FTP, M3U8, MPEG-DASH and eD2k links, plus video sites like YouTube and Bilibili, all in one app.

The all-time top

22 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · public-apis/public-apis

    public-apis

    A collective list of free APIs: a huge, manually curated catalog of public APIs for developers, maintained by the community for years. You do not call it — you browse the catalog and pick third-party APIs to use in your own product.

    490.6K
  2. #2 · awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

    awesome-selfhosted

    It is a curated list of free-software network services and web applications that you can host yourself instead of relying on third-party SaaS providers.

    328.4K
  3. #3 · jaywcjlove/awesome-mac

    awesome-mac

    It is a curated, categorized list of high-quality macOS software, covering everything from text editors and developer tools to design apps, utilities, and security tools.

    116.5K
  1. 4

    git

    63.9Kgit/git · C

    This is Git, the fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with a rich command set that gives both high-level operations and full access to internals.

  2. 5

    brew

    50.1KHomebrew/brew · Ruby

    Homebrew is a free, open-source package manager that lets you install, update and manage command-line tools, libraries and apps on macOS and Linux straight from the terminal.

  3. 6

    awesome-sysadmin

    35.5Kawesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin

    A curated list of free and open-source sysadmin tools, covering everything from backups and configuration management to monitoring, CI/CD, virtualization, and VPNs.

  4. 7

    Awesome-Linux-Software

    25.6Kluong-komorebi/Awesome-Linux-Software · HTML

    A curated community list of Linux applications and tools for everyday users and developers — a catalog you browse to discover software, not a program you install.

  5. 8

    awesome-python-applications

    18.1Kmahmoud/awesome-python-applications · Jupyter Notebook

    A curated catalog of 426 free, open-source Python applications, arranged by topic with links to each app's repo, homepage, and docs — case studies in successfully shipping Python software.

  6. 9

    E2B

    14.5Ke2b-dev/E2B · Python

    E2B is open-source infrastructure that lets you run AI-generated code in secure, isolated cloud sandboxes, so agents can execute untrusted code safely.

  7. 10

    QloApps

    14.4KQloapps/QloApps · PHP

    QloApps is a free, open-source hotel management and reservation system: a booking engine plus a Property Management System (PMS) that powers your own hotel booking website.

  8. 11

    awesome-podcasts

    13.1KrShetty/awesome-podcasts

    A curated list of podcasts useful for software engineers and programmers, organized by language, framework, and topic.

  9. 12

    expert_readed_books

    12.7K0voice/expert_readed_books

    This is a curated Chinese-language reading list of books recommended for software engineers, covering computer science, software engineering, startups, philosophy, history, business biographies, math, economics, and novels.

  10. 13

    robotframework

    12Krobotframework/robotframework · Python

    Robot Framework is a generic, open-source automation framework used for acceptance testing, acceptance test-driven development (ATDD), and robotic process automation (RPA).

  11. 14

    choco

    11.5Kchocolatey/choco · C#

    Chocolatey (choco) is a command-line package manager for Windows, similar to apt-get or yum but for Windows software.

  12. 15

    coworker

    10.8Kaccomplish-ai/coworker

    Coworker is a project by the accomplish-ai team whose README now holds just one message: the project is no longer supported. What it once did is no longer documented.

  13. 16

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    10.6Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee · Python

    Honestly, the repo itself does not tell: the README and the description are nothing but the letter 'e' repeated. GitHub metadata shows a Python repository created in 2018 that has collected over 10,500 stars.

  14. 17

    log

    10.4Kphp-fig/log · PHP

    This is the PSR-3 standard package: a set of interfaces, classes and traits (centered on Psr\Log\LoggerInterface) that describe what a PHP logger should look like, so different libraries can share a common logging contract.

  15. 18

    AutoMapper

    10.2KLuckyPennySoftware/AutoMapper · C#

    AutoMapper is a convention-based object-to-object mapper for .NET that eliminates the repetitive code needed to copy properties from one object to another.

  16. 19

    Ghost-Downloader-3

    10.1KXiaoYouChR/Ghost-Downloader-3 · Python

    Ghost Downloader is a cross-platform desktop download manager that handles HTTP, BitTorrent/Magnet, FTP, M3U8, MPEG-DASH and eD2k links, plus video sites like YouTube and Bilibili, all in one app.

  17. 20

    overdrive-releases

    643overdriveps5/overdrive-releases

    This repository hosts the official builds of Overdrive, a game store application for jailbroken PlayStation 5 consoles.

  18. 21

    Wise-Care

    252ScorpionPlan/Wise-Care

    This repo distributes a 'pre-activated standalone' installer for Wise Care, a Windows PC optimization and maintenance tool, claiming to bypass its normal registration and evaluation limits.

  19. 22

    is-a-software

    191is-a-software/is-a-software · JavaScript

    is-a-software lets developers claim a free custom subdomain under .is-a.software (like myproject.is-a.software) and point it at their site using custom DNS records such as A, AAAA, CNAME, TXT, MX, and NS.

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