3b1b/manim

Animation engine for explanatory math videos

95.1k stars · 7.8k forks · Python

Caution

Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.

Why

One person wrote 73% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)

What would change this

A second person takes a substantial share of commits.

Maintenance

Complete

Steady

Human commits, 30 days: 0
Human commits, 90 days: 108
Human commits, 365 days: 134
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Sep 9, 2026 (1 month ago)
Last human commit: Sep 9, 2026 (1 month ago)
Authors, 90 days: 15
Last release: Dec 13, 2024 (1 year ago)
Median PR merge time: 16 hours

Responsiveness: of 2 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

Only 2 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Personal account
Commits sampled: 134 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 2
Contributors: 182

Top committers

3b1b: 73% of commits
mathsvisualization: 7% of commits
00PrabalK00: 2% of commits
azhuchkov: 1% of commits
mjmjmtl: 1% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Aug 6, 2016 to Aug 13, 2016: about 67 more stars than usual, peak 14 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Feb 11, 2017 to Feb 12, 2017: about 48 more stars than usual, peak 42 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Apr 18, 2017 to Apr 18, 2017: about 20 more stars than usual, peak 24 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Oct 5, 2017 to Oct 7, 2017: about 59 more stars than usual, peak 34 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 28, 2018 to Jan 29, 2018: about 36 more stars than usual, peak 32 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 3, 2018 to Feb 4, 2018: about 44 more stars than usual, peak 33 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 6, 2018 to Sep 11, 2018: about 189 more stars than usual, peak 109 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 20, 2019 to May 5, 2019: about 1.9k more stars than usual, peak 924 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Aug 4, 2019 to Aug 6, 2019: about 219 more stars than usual, peak 114 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 9, 2019 to Oct 22, 2019: about 373 more stars than usual, peak 90 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 3, 2019 to Dec 5, 2019: about 143 more stars than usual, peak 83 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 23, 2019 to Dec 23, 2019: about 58 more stars than usual, peak 79 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 8, 2020 to Mar 18, 2020: about 444 more stars than usual, peak 103 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 28, 2020 to Apr 5, 2020: about 867 more stars than usual, peak 285 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 23, 2020 to Aug 27, 2020: about 273 more stars than usual, peak 129 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 16, 2020 to Oct 16, 2020: about 65 more stars than usual, peak 83 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Oct 26, 2020 to Nov 2, 2020: about 864 more stars than usual, peak 356 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
Nov 11, 2020 to Nov 12, 2020: about 149 more stars than usual, peak 108 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 7, 2020 to Dec 7, 2020: about 98 more stars than usual, peak 124 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Feb 1, 2021 to Feb 2, 2021: about 187 more stars than usual, peak 173 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 17, 2021 to Mar 20, 2021: about 402 more stars than usual, peak 195 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jul 16, 2021 to Jul 20, 2021: about 348 more stars than usual, peak 146 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 6, 2021 to Aug 11, 2021: about 427 more stars than usual, peak 136 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 8, 2021 to Nov 8, 2021: about 93 more stars than usual, peak 125 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 6, 2022 to Feb 17, 2022: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 182 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
Mar 14, 2022 to Mar 15, 2022: about 135 more stars than usual, peak 106 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
May 22, 2022 to May 23, 2022: about 122 more stars than usual, peak 103 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 5, 2022 to Jun 6, 2022: about 123 more stars than usual, peak 106 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
Oct 2, 2022 to Oct 3, 2022: about 72 more stars than usual, peak 69 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 11, 2023 to Sep 13, 2023: about 240 more stars than usual, peak 171 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jun 10, 2024 to Jun 13, 2024: about 728 more stars than usual, peak 328 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jul 17, 2024 to Jul 22, 2024: about 364 more stars than usual, peak 144 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 24, 2024 to Sep 30, 2024: about 592 more stars than usual, peak 189 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 12, 2024 to Oct 30, 2024: about 5.7k more stars than usual, peak 2.3k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 24, 2024 to Jan 4, 2025: about 968 more stars than usual, peak 205 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 25, 2025 to Feb 26, 2025: about 161 more stars than usual, peak 168 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jun 19, 2025 to Jun 24, 2025: about 154 more stars than usual, peak 70 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Aug 23, 2025 to Aug 25, 2025: about 391 more stars than usual, peak 348 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
Sep 30, 2025 to Oct 1, 2025: about 56 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 1, 2026 to Jan 9, 2026: about 665 more stars than usual, peak 294 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jan 27, 2026 to Jan 28, 2026: about 107 more stars than usual, peak 102 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Feb 24, 2026 to Feb 25, 2026: about 108 more stars than usual, peak 88 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jul 12, 2026 to Jul 14, 2026: about 206 more stars than usual, peak 141 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Aug 9, 2026 to Aug 24, 2026: about 2.4k more stars than usual, peak 484 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 1, 2026 to Sep 8, 2026: about 835 more stars than usual, peak 346 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

4 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

manimgl (PYPI): latest 1.7.2, published Dec 13, 2024
Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 4.3 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: 3b1b/manim, deps.dev: PyPI manimgl

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Oct 13, 2026: Caution
Oct 13, 2026: Caution

Computed 19 hours ago · method 2026.10.2