Arthur-Ficial/apfel

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6.5k stars · 248 forks · Swift

Caution

Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.

Why

One person wrote 97% 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.
Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.; Only 0 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.)

Maintenance

Partial

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 41
Human commits, 90 days: 86
Human commits, 365 days: 636
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 3%
Last commit: Oct 5, 2026 (9 days ago)
Last human commit: Oct 5, 2026 (9 days ago)
Authors, 90 days: 3
Last release: Oct 5, 2026 (9 days ago)
Median PR merge time: 2 hours

Responsiveness: of 0 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
Only 0 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: 485 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 1
Contributors: 14

Top committers

Arthur-Ficial: 97% of commits
wyleung: 1% of commits
franzenzenhofer: 1% of commits
claude: 0% of commits
BogdanGeorgian91: 0% of commits

Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence medium

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

Bursts

Jun 8, 2026 to Jun 9, 2026: about 158 more stars than usual, peak 95 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 7, 2026 to Jul 10, 2026: about 154 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.

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

The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: Not known

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: Arthur-Ficial/apfel

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Earlier verdicts

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

Computed 7 hours ago · method 2026.10.2