aristocratos/btop

A monitor of resources

35k stars · 1.2k forks · C++

Healthy

Healthy: maintained by 8 people in the last 90 days, no known risks.

Why

No rule fired.

What would change this

A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.

Maintenance

Complete

Slowing

Human commits, 30 days: 2
Human commits, 90 days: 12
Human commits, 365 days: 290
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 17%
Last commit: Oct 14, 2026 (14 hours ago)
Last human commit: Sep 25, 2026 (19 days ago)
Authors, 90 days: 8
Last release: May 1, 2026 (5 months ago)
Median PR merge time: 31 hours

Responsiveness: of 29 recent issues, 21% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 30 hours.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Personal account
Commits sampled: 290 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 2
Authors for 80% of commits: 11
Contributors: 175

Top committers

aristocratos: 31% of commits
deckstose: 23% of commits
vandabbin: 10% of commits
ItsMeSamey: 3% of commits
TheSovietPancakes: 3% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

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

Bursts

Sep 18, 2021 to Oct 22, 2021: about 3.7k more stars than usual, peak 507 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.
Dec 7, 2021 to Dec 8, 2021: about 81 more stars than usual, peak 75 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 16, 2021 to Dec 20, 2021: about 422 more stars than usual, peak 214 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 30, 2022 to Jun 30, 2022: about 60 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 5, 2022 to Jul 6, 2022: about 126 more stars than usual, peak 108 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 26, 2022 to Oct 27, 2022: about 77 more stars than usual, peak 74 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 9, 2023 to Jan 11, 2023: about 149 more stars than usual, peak 78 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
May 7, 2023 to May 8, 2023: about 92 more stars than usual, peak 59 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jun 25, 2023 to Jun 27, 2023: about 194 more stars than usual, peak 143 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.
Nov 8, 2023 to Nov 8, 2023: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 74 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 24, 2024 to Apr 26, 2024: about 266 more stars than usual, peak 147 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Sep 23, 2024 to Sep 24, 2024: about 287 more stars than usual, peak 242 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
Sep 28, 2024 to Sep 29, 2024: about 77 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 15, 2025 to Jan 19, 2025: about 131 more stars than usual, peak 63 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 8, 2025 to Nov 10, 2025: about 274 more stars than usual, peak 223 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.
Nov 13, 2025 to Nov 16, 2025: about 124 more stars than usual, peak 91 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 4, 2026 to Jul 4, 2026: about 61 more stars than usual, peak 80 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

1 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: Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: aristocratos/btop

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 14, 2026: Healthy

Computed 13 hours ago · method 2026.10.2