karakeep-app/karakeep

A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search

29.7k stars · 1.6k forks · TypeScript

Caution

Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.

Why

One person wrote 82% 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: 102
Human commits, 90 days: 246
Human commits, 365 days: 908
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
Last human commit: Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
Authors, 90 days: 22
Last release: Aug 11, 2026 (2 months ago)
Median PR merge time: 2 hours

Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 43% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 7 days.

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: Organization
Commits sampled: 496 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 1
Contributors: 194

Top committers

MohamedBassem: 82% of commits
esimkowitz: 2% of commits
zerone0x: 1% of commits
xuatz: 1% of commits
eriktews: 1% of commits

Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.
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

Mar 26, 2024 to Apr 18, 2024: about 747 more stars than usual, peak 134 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 21, 2024 to Apr 21, 2024: about 46 more stars than usual, peak 53 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 22, 2024 to May 30, 2024: about 409 more stars than usual, peak 81 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jul 10, 2024 to Jul 12, 2024: about 118 more stars than usual, peak 67 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 2, 2024 to Oct 12, 2024: about 719 more stars than usual, peak 323 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 28, 2024 to Oct 31, 2024: about 223 more stars than usual, peak 105 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 5, 2024 to Nov 7, 2024: about 318 more stars than usual, peak 190 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 24, 2024 to Jan 2, 2025: about 2.1k more stars than usual, peak 736 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 20, 2025 to Mar 21, 2025: about 98 more stars than usual, peak 85 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 5, 2025 to Apr 6, 2025: about 90 more stars than usual, peak 94 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 11, 2025 to Nov 12, 2025: about 94 more stars than usual, peak 94 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 15, 2025 to Nov 16, 2025: about 106 more stars than usual, peak 114 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 27, 2025 to Dec 29, 2025: about 111 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.
Feb 21, 2026 to Feb 25, 2026: about 195 more stars than usual, peak 129 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 24, 2026 to May 26, 2026: about 225 more stars than usual, peak 117 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jun 4, 2026 to Jun 5, 2026: about 80 more stars than usual, peak 84 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 5, 2026 to Jul 8, 2026: about 670 more stars than usual, peak 389 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.

4 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: AGPL-3.0 (OSI-approved)
A year ago: AGPL-3.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: karakeep-app/karakeep

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Earlier verdicts

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

Computed 10 hours ago · method 2026.10.2