kovidgoyal/kitty

If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for you! Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based.

35.3k stars · 1.6k forks · Python

Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 40 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.; Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.)
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: 368
Human commits, 90 days: 1k
Human commits, 365 days: 2.9k
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 2%
Last commit: Oct 14, 2026 (23 hours ago)
Last human commit: Oct 14, 2026 (23 hours ago)
Authors, 90 days: 40
Last release: Oct 1, 2026 (14 days ago)
Median PR merge time: 2 hours

Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 100% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: under an hour.

Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Personal account
Commits sampled: 488 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 3
Contributors: 447

Top committers

kovidgoyal: 65% of commits
rudolf-blue: 10% of commits
xiaobai050: 5% of commits
M-Hassan-Raza: 4% of commits
j-c-m: 3% 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

Jan 6, 2017 to Jan 18, 2017: about 635 more stars than usual, peak 309 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 22, 2017 to Nov 26, 2017: about 70 more stars than usual, peak 24 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 24, 2018 to Jan 26, 2018: about 55 more stars than usual, peak 33 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 29, 2018 to Feb 1, 2018: about 76 more stars than usual, peak 32 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 28, 2018 to Jul 29, 2018: about 60 more stars than usual, peak 46 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 5, 2018 to Sep 14, 2018: about 811 more stars than usual, peak 363 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.
Sep 30, 2020 to Oct 2, 2020: about 103 more stars than usual, peak 56 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 15, 2022 to Aug 16, 2022: about 109 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.
Dec 23, 2022 to Dec 26, 2022: about 151 more stars than usual, peak 86 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 29, 2023 to Jul 1, 2023: about 112 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.
Jul 24, 2024 to Jul 25, 2024: about 50 more stars than usual, peak 47 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 29, 2024 to Aug 1, 2024: about 98 more stars than usual, peak 46 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 28, 2024 to Dec 31, 2024: about 309 more stars than usual, peak 141 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jan 17, 2025 to Jan 18, 2025: about 151 more stars than usual, peak 152 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

7 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

github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty (GO): latest v0.49.2, published Oct 1, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.2 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: kovidgoyal/kitty, deps.dev: Go github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty

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Earlier verdicts

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

Computed 13 hours ago · method 2026.10.2