serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps

🚀 Awesome list of open source applications for macOS. https://t.me/s/opensourcemacosapps

50.8k stars · 3k forks

This repo isn't software code, so code checks are limited.

Healthy

Healthy: maintained by 20 people in the last 90 days, no known risks.

Why

No rule fired.

What would change this

A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.

Maintenance

Complete

Steady

Human commits, 30 days: 0
Human commits, 90 days: 45
Human commits, 365 days: 233
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Sep 9, 2026 (1 month ago)
Last human commit: Sep 9, 2026 (1 month ago)
Authors, 90 days: 20
Last release: none found
Median PR merge time: 43 hours

Responsiveness: of 12 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Personal account
Commits sampled: 233 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 37
Contributors: 348

Top committers

serhii-londar: 53% of commits
Copilot: 6% of commits
MrSaneApps: 2% of commits
csprasad: 2% of commits
Aakashdarsi: 1% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Mostly organic, confidence high

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

Bursts

Apr 3, 2018 to Apr 6, 2018: about 118 more stars than usual, peak 61 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Apr 10, 2018 to May 14, 2018: about 5.7k more stars than usual, peak 607 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jul 1, 2018 to Jul 26, 2018: about 4.9k more stars than usual, peak 989 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.
Aug 24, 2018 to Aug 24, 2018: about 119 more stars than usual, peak 142 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Apr 9, 2019 to Apr 11, 2019: about 88 more stars than usual, peak 63 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Oct 7, 2019 to Oct 18, 2019: about 1.5k more stars than usual, peak 700 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.
Feb 10, 2020 to Feb 10, 2020: about 69 more stars than usual, peak 78 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 16, 2020 to Apr 16, 2020: about 61 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Feb 12, 2021 to Feb 15, 2021: about 611 more stars than usual, peak 270 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jun 22, 2021 to Jun 24, 2021: about 175 more stars than usual, peak 132 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 6, 2021 to Sep 6, 2021: about 95 more stars than usual, peak 101 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Sep 11, 2021 to Sep 15, 2021: about 1k more stars than usual, peak 445 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.
May 28, 2024 to May 30, 2024: about 142 more stars than usual, peak 96 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Oct 6, 2025 to Oct 8, 2025: about 187 more stars than usual, peak 144 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 24, 2026 to Feb 25, 2026: about 107 more stars than usual, peak 108 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

8 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.
Engagement is not compared for non-code or mirror repositories.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 3.2 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details

License

Now: CC0-1.0 (OSI-approved)
A year ago: CC0-1.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.2 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps

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Earlier verdicts

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

Computed 16 hours ago · method 2026.10.2