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Tools projects on GitHub

General tag for developer and power-user utility software.

As of , the most-starred Tools projects on GitHub are awesome-python (328.3K stars), sherlock (94.4K stars) and hoppscotch (80.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 42 Tools repositories with 1.2M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was awesome-python, with +293 stars in a day.

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+293

awesome-python

vinta/awesome-python · ★ 328.3K

Awesome Python is a curated, opinionated guide to the best Python frameworks, libraries, and tools, organized by category — the classic answer to 'I want to do X in Python, which tool should I use?'

+191

figcraft

storytold/figcraft · ★ 2.6K

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.

+113

Windows-MCP

CursorTouch/Windows-MCP · ★ 9.4K

Windows-MCP is a lightweight, open-source MCP server that bridges LLMs and AI agents with the Windows operating system, letting agents control apps, navigate files, interact with the UI, and run QA tests.

+69

sherlock

sherlock-project/sherlock · ★ 94.4K

Sherlock hunts down social media accounts by username: give it a name and it checks across social networks for accounts registered under it.

The all-time top

42 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · vinta/awesome-python

    awesome-python

    Awesome Python is a curated, opinionated guide to the best Python frameworks, libraries, and tools, organized by category — the classic answer to 'I want to do X in Python, which tool should I use?'

    328.3K
  2. #2 · sherlock-project/sherlock

    sherlock

    Sherlock hunts down social media accounts by username: give it a name and it checks across social networks for accounts registered under it.

    94.4K
  3. #3 · hoppscotch/hoppscotch

    hoppscotch

    Hoppscotch is an open-source API development ecosystem for building, testing and debugging REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, MQTT, Server-Sent Events and Socket.IO APIs, positioned as an open alternative to Postman or Insomnia.

    80.7K
  1. 4

    imgui

    76.7Kocornut/imgui · C++

    Dear ImGui is a bloat-free graphical user interface library for C++ that outputs optimized vertex buffers you render in your own 3D-pipeline-enabled application. It is aimed at tooling, debug UIs, and visualization rather than end-user application UIs.

  2. 5

    CL4R1T4S

    51.4Kelder-plinius/CL4R1T4S

    CL4R1T4S is a crowd-sourced archive of leaked/extracted system prompts, guidelines, and internal tool definitions from major AI products like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, Cursor, Lovable, and Replit, published for AI transparency.

  3. 6

    it-tools

    40.9KCorentinTh/it-tools · Vue

    It-tools is a free, open-source collection of handy online tools for developers and people working in IT — small utilities with great UX, gathered in one web app.

  4. 7

    linux-command

    37.2Kjaywcjlove/linux-command · Markdown

    A non-profit, ad-free searchable reference of 600+ Linux commands — manuals, detailed explanations and learning notes collected into one bookmarkable website.

  5. 8

    awesome-docker

    37.1Kveggiemonk/awesome-docker

    A curated ('awesome list') index of Docker-related projects and resources: engines, image builders, registries, orchestration tools, networking/security tooling, desktop/terminal UIs and learning materials.

  6. 9

    modern-unix

    33Kibraheemdev/modern-unix

    A curated collection of modern, faster and saner alternatives to common Unix commands - an index of CLI tools like bat, ripgrep, fd, fzf and zoxide.

  7. 10

    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.

  8. 11

    labelImg

    25KHumanSignal/labelImg · Python

    A graphical image annotation tool: you draw bounding boxes around objects in images to build labeled datasets for object detection. Created by Tzutalin, it now lives with the Label Studio community.

  9. 12

    exa

    24.5Kogham/exa · Rust

    exa is a modern replacement for the ls command that ships with Unix and Linux: a small, fast, single-binary Rust tool that lists files with colours, better defaults, and awareness of symlinks, extended attributes, and Git.

  10. 13

    air

    24.1Kair-verse/air · Go

    Air is a live-reloading command line utility for developing Go applications: run air in your project root and it rebuilds and restarts your app whenever code changes.

  11. 14

    eza

    23.6Keza-community/eza · Rust

    eza is a modern replacement for the venerable ls command: a file lister for the terminal with colours, icons and more features and better defaults.

  12. 15

    HivisionIDPhotos

    21.6KZeyi-Lin/HivisionIDPhotos · Python

    An open-source AI tool for making ID photos: it cuts the person out of an ordinary snapshot with matting models and generates standard ID photos in various sizes with the right background color.

  13. 16

    DoKit

    20.4Kdidi/DoKit · Java

    DoKit is an in-app debug/developer-tools panel for Android, iOS, WeChat mini-programs, and Flutter apps, covering the whole front-end R&D lifecycle: mocking data, performance monitoring, visual inspection and more.

  14. 17

    python-mini-projects

    19.4KPython-World/python-mini-projects · Python

    A collection of simple Python mini projects — small scripts and tiny apps meant to help you improve your Python skills by reading and writing real code.

  15. 18

    Seelen-UI

    18.1Keythaann/Seelen-UI · Rust

    Seelen UI is a full desktop environment replacement for Windows 10/11 that lets you rebuild the taskbar, dock, app launcher, window manager, flyouts, and virtual desktops instead of just skinning them.

  16. 19

    carrot

    17.2Kxx025/carrot

    Carrot is a curated Chinese-language directory of AI tools and sites, listing chatbots, agents, image/video generators, and dev tools, with notes on which are free, require login, or need international network access.

  17. 20

    DearPyGui

    15.6Khoffstadt/DearPyGui · C++

    Dear PyGui is a fast and powerful GUI toolkit for Python: you write Python code and get native desktop windows with widgets, plots and a node editor. A built-in demo app showcases all of it.

  18. 21

    powerlevel9k

    13.4KPowerlevel9k/powerlevel9k · Shell

    Powerlevel9k was a ZSH theme that turned the terminal prompt into a colorful, information-rich Powerline-style bar. It was hugely influential in CLI UX, and its successor Powerlevel10k now continues its legacy.

  19. 22

    distrobox

    13.1K89luca89/distrobox · Go

    Distrobox lets you run any Linux distribution inside your terminal using containers, giving you backward and forward software compatibility while keeping the environment tightly integrated with your host system.

  20. 23

    RxTool

    12.3KTamsiree/RxTool · Kotlin

    A toolbox of utility classes for everyday Android development: payments, QR/barcode scanning, dialogs, GPS location, compression and a stack of custom views, packaged as a Kotlin library.

  21. 24

    xManager

    12.1KTeam-xManager/xManager · Java

    xManager is a free Android app that lets you download, install, and manage different versions of a music streaming app, giving you an ad-free experience with extra features not in the official app.

  22. 25

    awesome-postgres

    12.1Kdhamaniasad/awesome-postgres

    A curated index of PostgreSQL software, libraries, tools and resources, modeled on awesome-mysql. It gathers the whole ecosystem in one place: backup tools, GUIs, HA clusters, monitoring, tutorials and more.

  23. 26

    awesome-chatgpt-zh

    11.8KEmbraceAGI/awesome-chatgpt-zh · Python

    A Chinese-language guide to ChatGPT and frontier AI: a curated, continuously updated GitHub collection of free and paid ChatGPT resources, prompt-engineering advice, app-development guides and AI productivity tools (11.7k stars).

  24. 27

    404StarLink

    11.4Kknownsec/404StarLink

    404StarLink is a curated list of security-focused open-source projects maintained by Knownsec 404 Lab, created to showcase, support, and track high-quality, actively-maintained security tools.

  25. 28

    mac-mouse-fix

    11.1Knoah-nuebling/mac-mouse-fix · Objective-C

    A macOS app that makes cheap third-party mice feel as good as an Apple Trackpad or a Logitech MX Master - smoother scrolling, remappable buttons and click-and-drag gestures. The author wants it to become the best mouse driver ever.

  26. 29

    awesome-dotfiles

    10.9Kwebpro/awesome-dotfiles

    A curated list of dotfiles resources: articles, tutorials, example configuration repos, and tools for managing your shell and editor setup.

  27. 30

    jsonhero-web

    10.9Ktriggerdotdev/jsonhero-web · TypeScript

    JSON Hero is an open-source web app that gives you a clean, fast UI for browsing, searching and understanding JSON files, with column, tree and editor views plus smart previews.

  28. 31

    omni-tools

    10.3Kiib0011/omni-tools · TypeScript

    A self-hosted web app bundling dozens of browser-based utilities for everyday tasks: image and video editing, PDF work, text and data conversions, date and math calculators. No ads, no tracking.

  29. 32

    cli

    10.2Knpm/cli · JavaScript

    This is the source code for npm, the default package manager for JavaScript — the command-line tool you use to install and manage packages in a project.

  30. 33

    Windows-MCP

    9.4KCursorTouch/Windows-MCP · Python

    Windows-MCP is a lightweight, open-source MCP server that bridges LLMs and AI agents with the Windows operating system, letting agents control apps, navigate files, interact with the UI, and run QA tests.

  31. 34

    snow-apps

    5.9Kmg-chao/snow-apps · C++

    This repository hosts the source code for two desktop apps: Snow Shot, a screenshot and OCR tool with screen recording, and Snow Image Viewer, a separate image-viewing app bundled in the same repo.

  32. 35

    agentation

    5Kbenjitaylor/agentation · TypeScript

    Agentation is a visual feedback tool for AI coding agents: you click elements on your web page, add notes, and copy structured output that helps the agent find the exact code you are referring to.

  33. 36

    sh

    3.4Kkejilion/sh · Shell

    KejiLion.sh is an all-in-one interactive shell script toolbox for managing Linux servers: system monitoring, network testing, Docker, one-click LDNMP website stacks, backups, and security hardening.

  34. 37

    WindowsDeveloperConfig

    3.2Kmicrosoft/WindowsDeveloperConfig · PowerShell

    A Microsoft repo with three opinionated PowerShell setups for configuring a Windows dev machine: a full dev-workstation installer, a WSL/Linux shell beautifier called WSL Comfort, and single-language toolchain installers.

  35. 38

    figcraft

    2.6Kstorytold/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.

  36. 39

    free-ai-tools

    994ShaikhWarsi/free-ai-tools · TypeScript

    It is a curated, frequently-updated list of free and low-cost AI tools: LLM API providers, coding copilots, AI-native IDEs, CLI agents, RAG infrastructure, and local model options, aimed at helping developers build AI apps without paying $200/month.

  37. 40

    laya

    715aayushch/laya · Python

    Laya is a local-first AI notification command center that aggregates Slack, Gmail, GitHub, Jira, Notion, Outlook and Calendar notifications, processes them with local LLMs (Ollama/LM Studio) or your own cloud API keys, and prepares ready-to-approve Action Cards before you even open the notification.

  38. 41

    SIH-Winners-PPt-and-Sources

    261Aadiii00/SIH-Winners-PPt-and-Sources

    A curated collection of Smart India Hackathon winning presentations, prep materials and references for students and teams getting ready for SIH, one of India's biggest innovation competitions.

  39. 42

    awesome-mcp-servers

    191mcpHQ/awesome-mcp-servers · JavaScript

    A hand-curated, link-checked catalog of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers — tools that let AI applications connect to databases, developer tools, browsers, cloud services and more.

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