flameshot-org/flameshot

Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:

31.2k stars · 2.1k forks · C++

Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 21 people, 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

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 11
Human commits, 90 days: 51
Human commits, 365 days: 185
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
Last human commit: Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
Authors, 90 days: 21
Last release: Jun 19, 2026 (3 months ago)
Median PR merge time: 21 hours

Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 73% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 35 hours.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 138 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 3
Authors for 80% of commits: 20
Contributors: 317

Top committers

borgmanJeremy: 38% of commits
ElTh0r0: 11% of commits
QuentiumYT: 5% of commits
mmahmoudian: 4% of commits
Mitnitsky: 4% of commits

Commits pushed by accounts that sync other people's work, such as translation platforms, are left out of the shares.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

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

Bursts

Jul 1, 2017 to Jul 5, 2017: about 62 more stars than usual, peak 19 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jan 4, 2018 to Jan 17, 2018: about 275 more stars than usual, peak 88 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Sep 3, 2018 to Sep 7, 2018: about 71 more stars than usual, peak 28 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 12, 2018 to Dec 13, 2018: about 58 more stars than usual, peak 38 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 12, 2021 to Feb 19, 2021: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 442 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.
Feb 22, 2021 to Mar 10, 2021: about 827 more stars than usual, peak 120 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 13, 2021 to Mar 19, 2021: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 253 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 8, 2021 to Nov 9, 2021: about 101 more stars than usual, peak 89 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 25, 2022 to Jan 26, 2022: about 165 more stars than usual, peak 164 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 22, 2022 to Jun 26, 2022: about 267 more stars than usual, peak 162 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 11, 2024 to Jun 19, 2024: about 292 more stars than usual, peak 109 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 12, 2025 to Jun 16, 2025: about 423 more stars than usual, peak 295 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 6, 2025 to Aug 8, 2025: about 58 more stars than usual, peak 41 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 29, 2026 to Feb 3, 2026: about 431 more stars than usual, peak 228 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Sep 27, 2026 to Sep 29, 2026: about 78 more stars than usual, peak 47 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.

2 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: GPL-3.0 (OSI-approved)
A year ago: GPL-3.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.4 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: flameshot-org/flameshot

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Earlier verdicts

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

Computed 11 hours ago · method 2026.10.2