WerWolv/ImHex

🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

55.2k stars · 2.5k forks · C++

Caution

Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.

Why

One person wrote 78% 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: 11
Human commits, 90 days: 308
Human commits, 365 days: 780
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 1%
Last commit: Oct 8, 2026 (6 days ago)
Last human commit: Oct 8, 2026 (6 days ago)
Authors, 90 days: 14
Last release: Dec 21, 2025 (9 months ago)
Median PR merge time: 2 days

Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 60% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 1 hour.

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: Personal account
Commits sampled: 495 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 2
Contributors: 179

Top committers

WerWolv: 78% of commits
paxcut: 9% of commits
iTrooz: 3% of commits
scottanderson: 2% of commits
neptuwunium: 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 21, 2021 to Feb 27, 2021: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 495 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 7, 2021 to Nov 9, 2021: about 122 more stars than usual, peak 63 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Dec 13, 2021 to Dec 16, 2021: about 184 more stars than usual, peak 96 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 6, 2022 to Jul 16, 2022: about 715 more stars than usual, peak 299 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jul 27, 2022 to Aug 17, 2022: about 5.8k more stars than usual, peak 1.4k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Oct 27, 2022 to Nov 3, 2022: about 505 more stars than usual, peak 179 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 8, 2023 to Jan 27, 2023: about 1.8k more stars than usual, peak 371 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 11, 2023 to Feb 12, 2023: about 93 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 10, 2023 to Apr 12, 2023: about 245 more stars than usual, peak 185 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 17, 2023 to May 25, 2023: about 624 more stars than usual, peak 189 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 28, 2024 to Aug 1, 2024: about 7.7k more stars than usual, peak 2.2k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Sep 16, 2024 to Sep 25, 2024: about 826 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.
Oct 12, 2024 to Oct 14, 2024: about 300 more stars than usual, peak 178 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Dec 29, 2024 to Jan 6, 2025: about 732 more stars than usual, peak 298 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 18, 2025 to Apr 23, 2025: about 650 more stars than usual, peak 254 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Nov 8, 2025 to Nov 12, 2025: about 506 more stars than usual, peak 277 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Apr 23, 2026 to Apr 23, 2026: about 50 more stars than usual, peak 61 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 12, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026: about 86 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.

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.

The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: GPL-2.0 (OSI-approved)
A year ago: GPL-2.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 4.5 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: WerWolv/ImHex

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Earlier verdicts

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

Computed 17 hours ago · method 2026.10.2