ManimCommunity/manim

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

18

Human commits, 90 days

79

Human commits, 365 days

188

Bot share of commits, 365 days

20%

Last commit

Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)

Last human commit

Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)

Authors, 90 days

35

Last release

Oct 8, 2026 (6 days ago)

Median PR merge time

2 days

Responsiveness: of 21 recent issues, 71% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 9 days.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

188 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

8

Authors for 80% of commits

42

Contributors

418

Top committers

• behackl: 20% of commits
• henrikmidtiby: 9% of commits
• GniLudio: 6% of commits
• nikolajmunk: 6% of commits
• chopan050: 3% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Oct 29, 2020 to Oct 31, 2020: about 95 more stars than usual, peak 83 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Mar 17, 2021 to Mar 19, 2021: about 164 more stars than usual, peak 110 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 8, 2021 to Apr 9, 2021: about 110 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 16, 2021 to Jul 22, 2021: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 362 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Jul 26, 2021 to Jul 28, 2021: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 49 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 9, 2021 to Aug 10, 2021: about 109 more stars than usual, peak 105 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 20, 2021 to Aug 25, 2021: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 511 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
• Feb 6, 2022 to Feb 16, 2022: about 353 more stars than usual, peak 85 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Mar 13, 2022 to Mar 15, 2022: about 101 more stars than usual, peak 65 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.
• May 5, 2022 to May 6, 2022: about 51 more stars than usual, peak 43 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 27, 2023 to Mar 1, 2023: about 75 more stars than usual, peak 44 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Apr 26, 2023 to Apr 27, 2023: about 53 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 8, 2024 to Apr 11, 2024: about 367 more stars than usual, peak 246 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 2, 2024 to Sep 4, 2024: about 244 more stars than usual, peak 166 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Sep 28, 2024 to Oct 1, 2024: about 192 more stars than usual, peak 78 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Oct 8, 2024 to Oct 25, 2024: about 3.2k more stars than usual, peak 610 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Dec 24, 2024 to Jan 7, 2025: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 241 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 19, 2025 to Jun 29, 2025: about 665 more stars than usual, peak 236 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 23, 2025 to Aug 24, 2025: about 85 more stars than usual, peak 87 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 15, 2026 to May 16, 2026: about 75 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Aug 9, 2026 to Aug 12, 2026: about 169 more stars than usual, peak 109 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 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

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

MIT (OSI-approved)

A year ago

MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

• manim (PYPI): latest 0.22.0, published Oct 8, 2026
  Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.6 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: ManimCommunity/manim, deps.dev: PyPI manim