jaywcjlove/awesome-mac

 This project is dedicated to collecting high-quality macOS software and organizing them systematically by different categories for easy search and use.

116.1k stars · 9.4k forks · Swift

Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 134 people, no known risks.

Why

No rule fired.

What would change this

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

Maintenance

Partial

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 84
Human commits, 90 days: 168
Human commits, 365 days: 472
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 47%
Last commit: Oct 14, 2026 (1 day ago)
Last human commit: Oct 14, 2026 (1 day ago)
Authors, 90 days: 134
Last release: Mar 30, 2026 (6 months ago)
Median PR merge time: 18 hours

Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 30% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 12 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: Personal account
Commits sampled: 267 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 64
Authors for 80% of commits: 144
Contributors: 461

Top committers

jaywcjlove: 18% of commits
kageroumado: 1% of commits
Zer0codestuff: 1% of commits
binjto-boop: 1% of commits
davidscottpope-gif: 1% 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

Nov 20, 2016 to Nov 23, 2016: about 517 more stars than usual, peak 216 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 8, 2016 to Dec 9, 2016: about 55 more stars than usual, peak 41 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Mar 22, 2017 to Mar 23, 2017: about 55 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.
Apr 3, 2017 to Apr 21, 2017: about 2.9k more stars than usual, peak 472 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 24, 2017 to Aug 24, 2017: about 70 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Aug 28, 2017 to Aug 29, 2017: about 54 more stars than usual, peak 47 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Dec 4, 2017 to Dec 7, 2017: about 145 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.
Oct 8, 2018 to Oct 12, 2018: about 223 more stars than usual, peak 95 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 10, 2019 to Jan 25, 2019: about 1.6k more stars than usual, peak 249 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 23, 2019 to May 30, 2019: about 554 more stars than usual, peak 184 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 23, 2019 to Jun 24, 2019: about 61 more stars than usual, peak 52 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 26, 2019 to Aug 30, 2019: about 462 more stars than usual, peak 157 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 5, 2020 to Jan 16, 2020: about 524 more stars than usual, peak 115 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 31, 2020 to Feb 1, 2020: about 169 more stars than usual, peak 154 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 11, 2021 to Jul 23, 2021: about 1.9k more stars than usual, peak 472 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 30, 2022 to Mar 31, 2022: about 65 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jul 5, 2022 to Jul 8, 2022: about 466 more stars than usual, peak 224 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 27, 2023 to Jan 3, 2024: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 350 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 6, 2024 to Jan 7, 2024: about 78 more stars than usual, peak 69 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 18, 2024 to Jan 21, 2024: about 321 more stars than usual, peak 222 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 23, 2024 to Mar 29, 2024: about 349 more stars than usual, peak 134 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 20, 2024 to Oct 23, 2024: about 376 more stars than usual, peak 246 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 25, 2025 to Feb 27, 2025: about 103 more stars than usual, peak 81 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 2, 2025 to Mar 4, 2025: about 272 more stars than usual, peak 159 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 5, 2025 to Jul 7, 2025: about 128 more stars than usual, peak 90 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Aug 15, 2025 to Aug 19, 2025: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 682 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 17, 2025 to Nov 2, 2025: about 2k more stars than usual, peak 403 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 27, 2025 to Nov 28, 2025: about 183 more stars than usual, peak 166 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 16, 2025 to Dec 21, 2025: about 997 more stars than usual, peak 459 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 21, 2026 to Feb 22, 2026: about 87 more stars than usual, peak 106 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 11, 2026 to Mar 13, 2026: about 222 more stars than usual, peak 158 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
Jul 11, 2026 to Jul 14, 2026: about 684 more stars than usual, peak 393 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 9, 2026 to Aug 14, 2026: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 546 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 6, 2026 to Sep 9, 2026: about 550 more stars than usual, peak 422 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 22, 2026 to Sep 24, 2026: about 292 more stars than usual, peak 231 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

10 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: CC0-1.0 (OSI-approved)
A year ago: CC0-1.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

awesome-mac (NPM): latest 2.1.0, published Mar 30, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.4 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: jaywcjlove/awesome-mac, deps.dev: npm awesome-mac

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy

Computed 20 hours ago · method 2026.10.2