johnbean393/Sidekick

A native macOS app that allows users to chat with a local LLM that can respond with information from files, folders and websites on your Mac without installing any other software. Powered by llama.cpp.

3.3k stars · 149 forks · Swift

Caution

Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.

Why

One person wrote 96% 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.

Maintenance

Complete

Slowing

Human commits, 30 days: 1
Human commits, 90 days: 1
Human commits, 365 days: 77
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 1%
Last commit: Sep 30, 2026 (14 days ago)
Last human commit: Sep 30, 2026 (14 days ago)
Authors, 90 days: 1
Last release: Apr 2, 2026 (6 months ago)
Median PR merge time: 4 hours

Responsiveness: of 2 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

Only 2 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Personal account
Commits sampled: 77 since Oct 15, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 1
Contributors: 5

Top committers

johnbean393: 96% of commits
Arcadi4: 4% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Mostly organic, confidence high

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

Bursts

Mar 9, 2025 to Mar 26, 2025: about 2.3k more stars than usual, peak 892 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.
Apr 4, 2025 to Apr 7, 2025: about 86 more stars than usual, peak 30 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.

Engagement is low for a repo this size (forks, watchers, issues, contributors).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

Forks, watchers, issues, and contributors are low for the number of stars.
Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: johnbean393/Sidekick

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 15, 2026: Caution
Oct 14, 2026: Caution

Computed 3 hours ago · method 2026.10.2