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Leaderboard for 4 October 2026

The biggest C projects on GitHub, the ones gaining stars fastest right now, and the same leaderboard a year ago. We have recorded it every day since December 2018.

Most starred today

  1. 1 torvalds/linux Linux kernel source tree 251k +691 / 7d
  2. 2 Genymobile/scrcpy Display and control your Android device 151k +484 / 7d
  3. 3 microsoft/PowerToys Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that supercharge productivity and customization on Windows 139k +163 / 7d
  4. 4 ventoy/Ventoy A new bootable USB solution. 80k +143 / 7d
  5. 5 obsproject/obs-studio OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording 77k +275 / 7d
  6. 6 redis/redis For developers, who are building real-time data-driven applications, Redis is the preferred, fastest, and most feature-rich cache, data structure server, and document and vector query engine. 77k +79 / 7d
  7. 7 colbymchenry/codegraph Pre-indexed code knowledge graph, auto syncs on code changes, for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, OpenCode, AntiGravity, Kiro, CoPilot, and Hermes Agent — fewer tokens, fewer tool calls, 100% local 73k +1.0k / 7d
  8. 8 FFmpeg/FFmpeg Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git 65k +181 / 7d
  9. 9 git/git Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements. 64k +236 / 7d
  10. 10 tmux/tmux tmux source code 50k +187 / 7d
  11. 11 DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp High-performance code intelligence MCP server. Indexes codebases into a persistent knowledge graph — average repo in milliseconds. 158 languages, sub-ms queries, 99% fewer tokens. Single static binary, zero dependencies. 46k +765 / 7d
  12. 12 curl/curl A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, MQTTS, POP3, POP3S, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features 43k +107 / 7d
  13. 13 php/php-src The PHP Interpreter 40k +33 / 7d
  14. 14 wg/wrk Modern HTTP benchmarking tool 40k +4 / 7d
  15. 15 JustVugg/colibri Run frontier MoE models on hardware you already own — pure C, zero deps, experts streamed from disk. Tiny engine, immense model. 🐦 39k +1.6k / 7d
  16. 16 pbatard/rufus The Reliable USB Formatting Utility 38k +80 / 7d
  17. 17 mpv-player/mpv 🎥 Command line media player 37k +103 / 7d
  18. 18 jqlang/jq Command-line JSON processor 36k +41 / 7d
  19. 19 raysan5/raylib A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming 35k +89 / 7d
  20. 20 nothings/stb stb single-file public domain libraries for C/C++ 35k +58 / 7d
  21. 21 valinet/ExplorerPatcher This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows 34k +39 / 7d
  22. 22 bilibili/ijkplayer Android/iOS video player based on FFmpeg n3.4, with MediaCodec, VideoToolbox support. 33k +3 / 7d
  23. 23 kingToolbox/WindTerm A professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Tmux/Serial terminal. 32k +48 / 7d
  24. 24 lizongying/my-tv 我的电视 电视直播软件，安装即可使用 32k +3 / 7d
  25. 25 nginx/nginx The official NGINX Open Source repository. 32k +49 / 7d

Climbing fastest this week

A different population from the leaderboard above. These are ranked by stars gained, so a project going from 200 to 2,000 shows up here and can never appear on a top-100 list by total stars.

  1. 1 willfaust/Madeira Run x86-64 Windows PC games on jailed iOS via FEX-Emu + Wine + DXMT +1.1k 1.7k total
  2. 2 antirez/ds4 DeepSeek 4 Flash and PRO local inference engine for Metal, CUDA and ROCm +550 23k total
  3. 3 xiaojieonly/Ehviewer_CN_SXJ ehviewer，用爱发电，快乐前行 +263 27k total
  4. 4 git/git Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements. +236 64k total
  5. 5 matz/spinel Ruby AOT compiler +208 2.2k total
  6. 6 EchoStretch/kstuff-lite +122 602 total
  7. 7 tr4m0ryp/tr4mpass Free, open-source iCloud activation lock bypass tool. Remove iCloud lock from iPhone 5s through iPhone 15 Pro (iOS 12-26.1). Fully offline -- no servers, no payments. Supports checkm8 (A5-A11) and session activation (A12+). +86 1.1k total
  8. 8 EpicGames/raddebugger A native, user-mode, multi-process, graphical debugger. +67 7.6k total
  9. 9 hathach/tinyusb An open source cross-platform USB stack for embedded system +44 7.2k total
  10. 10 Mbed-TLS/mbedtls An open source, portable, easy to use, readable and flexible TLS library, and reference implementation of the PSA Cryptography API. Releases are on a varying cadence, typically around 3 - 6 months between releases. +17 7.0k total

A year ago today

The same leaderboard on 4 October 2025. 3 of today's top ten were not in it.

  1. 1 torvalds/linux 204k
  2. 2 Genymobile/scrcpy 129k
  3. 3 netdata/netdata 76k
  4. 4 redis/redis 71k
  5. 5 ventoy/Ventoy 71k
  6. 6 obsproject/obs-studio 67k
  7. 7 git/git 57k
  8. 8 FFmpeg/FFmpeg 54k
  9. 9 wg/wrk 40k
  10. 10 php/php-src 40k

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