C repositories
The top 500 C repositories, ranked by stars
Last updated
| Rank | Repository | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Linux kernel source tree | 255,599 |
| 2 | Display and control your Android device | 154,728 |
| 3 | Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that supercharge productivity and customization on Windows | 140,950 |
| 4 | A new bootable USB solution. | 80,871 |
| 5 | OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording | 79,508 |
| 6 | 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. | 77,494 |
| 7 | Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git | 67,205 |
| 8 | 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... | 64,303 |
| 9 | A hierarchical inference engine for frontier MoE models: hot experts on the GPU (CUDA, Vulkan), warm ones in RAM, cold ones streamed from NVMe. Written in C, runs on the hardware you already own. | 50,786 |
| 10 | tmux source code | 50,304 |
| 11 | Local code intelligence for developers and AI agents. Connect code, docs and infrastructure in a persistent graph, with CBM Lens, MCP tools, agent integrations and change-aware test selection. | 48,609 |
| 12 | 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,... | 43,499 |
| 13 | The PHP Interpreter | 41,778 |
| 14 | Modern HTTP benchmarking tool | 40,424 |
| 15 | The Reliable USB Formatting Utility | 38,334 |
| 16 | 🎥 Command line media player | 38,102 |
| 17 | Command-line JSON processor | 36,135 |
| 18 | A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming | 35,655 |
| 19 | stb single-file public domain libraries for C/C++ | 35,020 |
| 20 | This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows | 34,307 |
| 21 | Android/iOS video player based on FFmpeg n3.4, with MediaCodec, VideoToolbox support. | 33,231 |
| 22 | A professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Tmux/Serial terminal. | 32,666 |
| 23 | The official NGINX Open Source repository. | 32,116 |
| 24 | 我的电视 电视直播软件，安装即可使用 | 31,953 |
| 25 | Lean's LEDE source | 31,623 |
| 26 | General purpose TLS and crypto library | 31,436 |
| 27 | How to create an OS from scratch | 30,805 |
| 28 | A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning | 29,837 |
| 29 | This repository is a mirror of https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git It is for reference only and is not active for check-ins. We will continue to accept Pull Requests here. They will be... | 29,200 |
| 30 | ehviewer，用爱发电，快乐前行 | 29,060 |
| 31 | GoodbyeDPI — Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility (for Windows) | 28,865 |
| 32 | Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm | 28,246 |
| 33 | A flexible distributed key-value database that is optimized for caching and other realtime workloads. | 27,705 |
| 34 | World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility | 27,344 |
| 35 | Cross-platform asynchronous I/O | 27,329 |
| 36 | A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster. | 27,122 |
| 37 | Convolutional Neural Networks | 26,510 |
| 38 | TCP port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes. | 26,147 |
| 39 | UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset | 25,422 |
| 40 | A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool. | 25,350 |
| 41 | High-performance, scalable time-series database designed for Industrial IoT (IIoT) scenarios | 25,193 |
| 42 | LVGL is a free, full-featured embedded UI library for devices from small MCUs to 3D-capable MPUs, enhanced by LVGL Pro, a professional editor and tooling. | 25,158 |
| 43 | HandBrake's development repository | 25,004 |
| 44 | Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT,... | 24,988 |
| 45 | DeepSeek 4 Flash and PRO local inference engine for Metal, CUDA and ROCm | 24,350 |
| 46 | A time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres extension | 23,853 |
| 47 | Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres | 23,668 |
| 48 | Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see... | 22,814 |
| 49 | BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more | 22,742 |
| 50 | Flipper Zero Unleashed Firmware | 22,731 |
