Topics / #utilities

Utilities projects on GitHub

Small utility libraries and helper tools for everyday programming tasks.

As of October 17, 2026, the most-starred Utilities projects on GitHub are bootstrap (174.9K stars), lodash (61.3K stars) and Files (46K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 19 Utilities repositories with 584.1K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was Files, with +18 stars in a day.

19Projects

584.1KStars in total

+61Stars in a day

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+18

Files

files-community/Files · ★ 46K

Files is a modern, open-source file manager for Windows that helps users organize their files and folders, featuring multitasking, file tags, and deep system integrations.

+14

bootstrap

twbs/bootstrap · ★ 174.9K

Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript front-end framework for building responsive, mobile-first projects on the web — ready-made styles and components that speed up development.

+10

macUSB

Kruszoneq/macUSB · ★ 3.3K

macUSB is a guided macOS desktop app for creating bootable USB installers for macOS, Windows, and Linux, acting as an all-in-one alternative to tools like Rufus.

hidden

dwarvesf/hidden · ★ 15.2K

Hidden Bar (Hidden) is an ultra-light macOS utility that lets you hide menu bar icons to give your Mac's menu bar a cleaner look.

The all-time top

19 projects · by stars

#1 · twbs/bootstrap
bootstrap
Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript front-end framework for building responsive, mobile-first projects on the web — ready-made styles and components that speed up development.
174.9K
#2 · lodash/lodash
lodash
Lodash is a modern JavaScript utility library - small helper functions that take the hassle out of working with arrays, numbers, objects, and strings.
61.3K
#3 · files-community/Files
Files
Files is a modern, open-source file manager for Windows that helps users organize their files and folders, featuring multitasking, file tags, and deep system integrations.
46K

4
date-fns
36.6Kdate-fns/date-fns · TypeScript
A modern JavaScript date utility library: 200+ functions for manipulating dates in the browser and Node.js. The README describes it as 'like Lodash for dates'.
5
stb
34.8Knothings/stb · C
A collection of 21 single-file libraries for C/C++ covering image loading, writing and resizing, font rasterizing, audio decoding, containers and more — all released into the public domain, with an MIT option if you need a regular license.
6
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
tqdm
31.4Ktqdm/tqdm · Python
A fast, extensible progress bar for Python and the CLI: wrap any iterable with tqdm(iterable) and your loop instantly shows a smart meter with percentage, speed and ETA.
8
underscore
27.3Kjashkenas/underscore · JavaScript
Underscore.js is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides functional programming helpers like each, map, reduce, and filter, without extending any core JavaScript objects.
9
You-Dont-Need-Lodash-Underscore
19.1Kyou-dont-need/You-Dont-Need-Lodash-Underscore · JavaScript
A curated list of JavaScript methods that are already supported natively in modern browsers, so you can drop Lodash/Underscore — plus an ESLint plugin that flags where the libraries are unnecessary.
10
quick-look-plugins
18.8Ksindresorhus/quick-look-plugins
A curated list of Quick Look plugins for developers. Quick Look is the macOS preview you get by hitting Space in Finder; each plugin here teaches it a new file type, like Markdown, JSON, or source code.
11
cz-cli
17.5Kcommitizen/cz-cli · JavaScript
A free, open-source Node.js CLI that prompts you for commit message fields at commit time, so every message follows your project's convention — no digging through CONTRIBUTING.md, no hook rejections.
12
type-fest
17.5Ksindresorhus/type-fest · TypeScript
type-fest is a collection of essential TypeScript types — helper types the author feels should have been built into the language, covering objects, unions, strings, arrays, tuples and functions.
13
hidden
15.2Kdwarvesf/hidden · Swift
Hidden Bar (Hidden) is an ultra-light macOS utility that lets you hide menu bar icons to give your Mac's menu bar a cleaner look.
14
dockerfiles
13.9Kjessfraz/dockerfiles · Dockerfile
A collection of Dockerfiles for Docker images Jess Frazelle builds and uses on her own desktop and servers; almost all images are published on Docker Hub under the 'jess' namespace.
15
inflector
11.3Kdoctrine/inflector · PHP
Doctrine Inflector is a small PHP library that performs string manipulations with regard to uppercase/lowercase and singular/plural forms of words.
16
spectre
11.3Kpicturepan2/spectre · CSS
Spectre.css is a lightweight, responsive and modern CSS framework for building web UIs with a flexbox-based grid, prebuilt elements, components and utility classes.
17
Mobile-Detect
10.7Kserbanghita/Mobile-Detect · PHP
Mobile Detect is a lightweight PHP class that tells your server whether a visitor is on a mobile device, including tablets, by reading the request's User-Agent string and specific HTTP headers.
18
macUSB
3.3KKruszoneq/macUSB · Swift
macUSB is a guided macOS desktop app for creating bootable USB installers for macOS, Windows, and Linux, acting as an all-in-one alternative to tools like Rufus.
19
claude-watermark-cleaner
151mikiane/claude-watermark-cleaner · Python
An experimental Python CLI that tries to strip Claude's statistical text watermark: it removes suspicious invisible Unicode characters, then has a non-Claude model rewrite the text. It doubles as a critical demo arguing such watermarks are easy to circumvent.