obsproject/obs-studio

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording

77.5k stars · 10.6k forks · C

Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 34 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: 78
Human commits, 90 days: 165
Human commits, 365 days: 571
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
Last human commit: Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
Authors, 90 days: 34
Last release: Aug 14, 2026 (2 months ago)
Median PR merge time: 43 hours

Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 70% 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.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 500 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 3
Authors for 80% of commits: 14
Contributors: 404

Top committers

Warchamp7: 24% of commits
RytoEX: 22% of commits
PatTheMav: 9% of commits
notr1ch: 4% of commits
derrod: 3% of commits

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

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Mostly organic, confidence high

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

Bursts

Jul 15, 2014 to Jul 16, 2014: about 20 more stars than usual, peak 16 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 14, 2019 to Oct 15, 2019: about 103 more stars than usual, peak 70 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 18, 2020 to Mar 20, 2020: about 82 more stars than usual, peak 58 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 22, 2020 to Mar 26, 2020: about 236 more stars than usual, peak 130 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 3, 2020: about 219 more stars than usual, peak 157 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 26, 2020 to Apr 26, 2020: about 67 more stars than usual, peak 101 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 29, 2020 to Oct 1, 2020: about 266 more stars than usual, peak 147 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 30, 2020 to Nov 30, 2020: about 194 more stars than usual, peak 215 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 7, 2021 to Feb 9, 2021: about 678 more stars than usual, peak 359 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jun 1, 2021 to Jun 4, 2021: about 900 more stars than usual, peak 474 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Sep 28, 2021 to Oct 1, 2021: about 305 more stars than usual, peak 195 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 7, 2021 to Nov 9, 2021: about 415 more stars than usual, peak 234 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Nov 17, 2021 to Nov 24, 2021: about 512 more stars than usual, peak 203 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 18, 2021 to Dec 23, 2021: about 366 more stars than usual, peak 209 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 28, 2022 to Jan 31, 2022: about 256 more stars than usual, peak 172 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 28, 2022 to Aug 30, 2022: about 199 more stars than usual, peak 186 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 1, 2022 to Sep 2, 2022: about 97 more stars than usual, peak 93 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 25, 2022 to Dec 28, 2022: about 315 more stars than usual, peak 159 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jan 9, 2023 to Jan 10, 2023: about 170 more stars than usual, peak 171 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 13, 2023 to Feb 13, 2023: about 80 more stars than usual, peak 106 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 23, 2023 to Aug 24, 2023: about 81 more stars than usual, peak 76 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 29, 2023 to Oct 30, 2023: about 222 more stars than usual, peak 208 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 6, 2023 to Nov 9, 2023: about 184 more stars than usual, peak 94 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 12, 2023 to Nov 15, 2023: about 419 more stars than usual, peak 228 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 17, 2024 to Jun 18, 2024: about 279 more stars than usual, peak 241 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 14, 2024 to Jul 15, 2024: about 177 more stars than usual, peak 157 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 6, 2024 to Oct 7, 2024: about 252 more stars than usual, peak 220 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 15, 2025 to Dec 16, 2025: about 317 more stars than usual, peak 282 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

7 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.

Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
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: GPL-2.0 (OSI-approved)
A year ago: GPL-2.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.1 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: obsproject/obs-studio

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Earlier verdicts

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

Computed 19 hours ago · method 2026.10.2