zen-browser/desktop

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44.9k stars · 1.8k forks · C++

Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 41 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: 105
Human commits, 90 days: 252
Human commits, 365 days: 1.3k
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 1%
Last commit: Oct 14, 2026 (23 hours ago)
Last human commit: Oct 14, 2026 (23 hours ago)
Authors, 90 days: 41
Last release: Oct 9, 2026 (5 days ago)
Median PR merge time: under an hour

Responsiveness: of 24 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.

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: 6
Contributors: 251

Top committers

mr-cheffy: 65% of commits
ashvwinn: 6% of commits
FlorianButz: 4% of commits
octaviusz: 3% of commits
bnquon: 2% 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

Jul 2, 2024 to Jul 3, 2024: about 30 more stars than usual, peak 18 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jul 12, 2024 to Jul 15, 2024: about 44 more stars than usual, peak 16 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 20, 2024 to Sep 21, 2024: about 10.6k more stars than usual, peak 2.6k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Jan 30, 2025 to Feb 9, 2025: about 930 more stars than usual, peak 391 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 16, 2025 to May 31, 2025: about 1.5k more stars than usual, peak 358 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 16, 2025 to Jun 17, 2025: about 164 more stars than usual, peak 158 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 25, 2025 to Aug 28, 2025: about 172 more stars than usual, peak 123 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 25, 2025 to Dec 26, 2025: about 184 more stars than usual, peak 193 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 29, 2025 to Dec 30, 2025: about 95 more stars than usual, peak 89 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

10 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

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: MPL-2.0 (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MPL-2.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: zen-browser/desktop

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Earlier verdicts

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

Computed 15 hours ago · method 2026.10.2