microsoft/PowerToys

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

175

Human commits, 90 days

414

Human commits, 365 days

1.4k

Bot share of commits, 365 days

1%

Last commit

Oct 14, 2026 (22 hours ago)

Last human commit

Oct 14, 2026 (22 hours ago)

Authors, 90 days

79

Last release

Aug 25, 2026 (1 month ago)

Median PR merge time

29 hours

Responsiveness: of 28 recent issues, 18% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 9 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

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

496 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

4

Authors for 80% of commits

14

Contributors

409

Top committers

• jiripolasek: 24% of commits
• crutkas: 12% of commits
• niels9001: 8% of commits
• moooyo: 7% of commits
• michaeljolley: 5% of commits

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

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Sep 5, 2019 to Oct 3, 2019: about 5.1k more stars than usual, peak 1.6k 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.
• Oct 29, 2019 to Nov 5, 2019: about 970 more stars than usual, peak 296 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 4, 2020 to Mar 11, 2020: about 293 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.
• Apr 1, 2020 to Apr 4, 2020: about 368 more stars than usual, peak 186 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 9, 2020 to Apr 18, 2020: about 778 more stars than usual, peak 176 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 19, 2020 to Jun 1, 2020: about 3.1k 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.
• Jun 26, 2020 to Jul 2, 2020: about 634 more stars than usual, peak 214 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 2, 2020 to Aug 6, 2020: about 971 more stars than usual, peak 366 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 23, 2020 to Aug 25, 2020: about 638 more stars than usual, peak 321 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 1, 2020 to Oct 5, 2020: about 714 more stars than usual, peak 283 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 2, 2020 to Nov 2, 2020: about 263 more stars than usual, peak 331 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 3, 2020 to Dec 3, 2020: about 274 more stars than usual, peak 372 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 3, 2021 to Feb 7, 2021: about 521 more stars than usual, peak 292 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 2, 2021 to May 4, 2021: about 299 more stars than usual, peak 196 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 27, 2021 to Jun 30, 2021: about 273 more stars than usual, peak 204 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 5, 2021 to Aug 10, 2021: about 525 more stars than usual, peak 186 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 4, 2021 to Sep 8, 2021: about 610 more stars than usual, peak 200 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 1, 2021 to Oct 1, 2021: about 80 more stars than usual, peak 120 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 29, 2021 to Nov 2, 2021: about 595 more stars than usual, peak 187 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 5, 2021 to Dec 5, 2021: about 157 more stars than usual, peak 200 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 7, 2022 to Jan 14, 2022: about 772 more stars than usual, peak 211 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 2, 2022 to Feb 7, 2022: about 614 more stars than usual, peak 208 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 2, 2022 to Mar 7, 2022: about 571 more stars than usual, peak 198 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 9, 2022 to Apr 12, 2022: about 411 more stars than usual, peak 188 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 5, 2022 to May 9, 2022: about 203 more stars than usual, peak 127 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 9, 2022 to Jun 10, 2022: about 136 more stars than usual, peak 121 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 15, 2022 to Jul 15, 2022: about 69 more stars than usual, peak 98 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 3, 2022 to Aug 7, 2022: about 439 more stars than usual, peak 174 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 6, 2022 to Sep 17, 2022: about 840 more stars than usual, peak 199 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 6, 2022 to Oct 8, 2022: about 241 more stars than usual, peak 146 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 3, 2022 to Nov 16, 2022: about 986 more stars than usual, peak 223 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 2, 2023 to Feb 5, 2023: about 468 more stars than usual, peak 197 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 3, 2023 to Mar 4, 2023: about 148 more stars than usual, peak 129 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 8, 2023 to Apr 9, 2023: about 167 more stars than usual, peak 165 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 23, 2023 to May 29, 2023: about 583 more stars than usual, peak 239 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 2, 2023 to Sep 7, 2023: about 439 more stars than usual, peak 183 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 28, 2023 to Oct 1, 2023: about 817 more stars than usual, peak 571 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 31, 2023 to Nov 2, 2023: about 304 more stars than usual, peak 142 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 5, 2023 to Dec 11, 2023: about 630 more stars than usual, peak 196 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 11, 2024 to Jan 14, 2024: about 284 more stars than usual, peak 166 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 22, 2024 to May 29, 2024: about 565 more stars than usual, peak 208 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 5, 2024 to Sep 12, 2024: about 651 more stars than usual, peak 175 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 18, 2024 to Dec 20, 2024: about 249 more stars than usual, peak 193 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 6, 2025 to Mar 9, 2025: about 524 more stars than usual, peak 268 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 6, 2025 to May 7, 2025: about 186 more stars than usual, peak 192 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 16, 2025 to May 16, 2025: about 111 more stars than usual, peak 146 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 20, 2025 to May 23, 2025: about 266 more stars than usual, peak 168 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 29, 2025 to Jul 31, 2025: about 310 more stars than usual, peak 271 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 3, 2025 to Sep 5, 2025: about 362 more stars than usual, peak 206 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 16, 2025 to Oct 21, 2025: about 500 more stars than usual, peak 213 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 6, 2026 to Jan 8, 2026: about 538 more stars than usual, peak 298 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 20, 2026 to Jan 24, 2026: about 151 more stars than usual, peak 78 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 31, 2026 to Feb 1, 2026: about 189 more stars than usual, peak 196 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 11, 2026 to Feb 13, 2026: about 409 more stars than usual, peak 269 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 18, 2026 to Mar 20, 2026: about 88 more stars than usual, peak 75 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 29, 2026 to May 1, 2026: about 467 more stars than usual, peak 360 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 10, 2026 to Jun 19, 2026: about 991 more stars than usual, peak 331 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 27, 2026 to Jun 28, 2026: about 191 more stars than usual, peak 198 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 11, 2026 to Jul 12, 2026: about 156 more stars than usual, peak 166 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 30, 2026 to Jul 31, 2026: about 354 more stars than usual, peak 323 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 17 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

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

MIT (OSI-approved)

A year ago

MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 4.9 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: microsoft/PowerToys