GraphiteEditor/Graphite

Community-built comprehensive 2D content creation appplication for graphic design, digital art, and interactive real-time motion graphics powered by a node-based procedural graphics engine

27.6k stars · 1.3k forks · Rust

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.
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.)

Maintenance

Partial

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 136
Human commits, 90 days: 263
Human commits, 365 days: 858
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Oct 14, 2026 (14 hours ago)
Last human commit: Oct 14, 2026 (14 hours ago)
Authors, 90 days: 10
Last release: Feb 4, 2022 (4 years ago)
Median PR merge time: under an hour

Responsiveness: of 20 recent issues, 65% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 2 hours.

Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 500 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 2
Contributors: 185

Top committers

Keavon: 73% of commits
timon-schelling: 16% of commits
TrueDoctor: 5% of commits
0HyperCube: 2% of commits
YohYamasaki: 2% of commits

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

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

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

Bursts

Feb 13, 2021 to Feb 14, 2021: about 17 more stars than usual, peak 13 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 13, 2021 to May 13, 2021: about 28 more stars than usual, peak 29 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Aug 3, 2021 to Aug 4, 2021: about 68 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Mar 14, 2022 to Mar 17, 2022: about 90 more stars than usual, peak 49 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Sep 15, 2022 to Sep 20, 2022: about 199 more stars than usual, peak 101 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jul 27, 2023 to Aug 8, 2023: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 268 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Nov 4, 2023 to Nov 9, 2023: about 304 more stars than usual, peak 142 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Mar 26, 2024 to Mar 29, 2024: about 147 more stars than usual, peak 73 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 14, 2024 to Apr 26, 2024: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 301 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Oct 15, 2024 to Oct 27, 2024: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 498 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Nov 28, 2024 to Dec 3, 2024: about 238 more stars than usual, peak 125 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 18, 2025 to Jan 19, 2025: about 61 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 9, 2025 to Mar 21, 2025: about 454 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 2, 2025 to Apr 4, 2025: about 121 more stars than usual, peak 70 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 9, 2025 to Jul 10, 2025: about 6.6k more stars than usual, peak 1.6k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Sep 20, 2025 to Sep 27, 2025: about 407 more stars than usual, peak 115 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 30, 2025 to Oct 31, 2025: about 83 more stars than usual, peak 70 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 23, 2026 to Jan 24, 2026: about 76 more stars than usual, peak 62 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 24, 2026 to May 29, 2026: about 171 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.

4 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).

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: Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
A year ago: Not known

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: GraphiteEditor/Graphite

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Earlier verdicts

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

Computed 9 hours ago · method 2026.10.2