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ghostty-org/ghostty vs kovidgoyal/kitty

  • ghostty-org/ghostty

    Stars

    61,176

    First recorded star in 2024.

  • kovidgoyal/kitty

    Stars

    34,910

    First recorded star in 2016.

Star history overlay
37k STARS9 YR 9 MOghostty-org/ghostty37kkovidgoyal/kitty32k

ghostty-org/ghostty: 36,977 stars on September 16, 2026. kovidgoyal/kitty: 31,944 stars on September 16, 2026.

Star history for ghostty-org/ghostty
DateStars
December 26, 20242283
January 2, 202517651
January 9, 202520474
January 16, 202521980
January 23, 202522930
January 30, 202523469
February 7, 202524134
February 14, 202524602
February 21, 202525047
February 28, 202525430
March 9, 202525837
March 16, 202526145
March 23, 202526477
March 30, 202526767
April 7, 202527056
April 14, 202527284
April 21, 202527522
April 28, 202527771
May 5, 202528004
May 13, 202528248
May 20, 202528464
May 27, 202528646
June 3, 202528785
June 10, 202528940
June 18, 202529118
June 25, 202529488
July 2, 202529701
July 9, 202529904
July 16, 202530050
July 24, 202530208
August 1, 202530407
August 8, 202530565
August 16, 202530753
August 23, 202530998
August 30, 202531149
September 6, 202531267
September 13, 202531497
September 21, 202531736
September 28, 202531932
October 5, 202532055
October 16, 202532180
October 23, 202532286
October 30, 202532387
November 7, 202532541
November 14, 202532639
November 21, 202532733
November 28, 202532819
December 5, 202532943
December 13, 202533104
December 20, 202533238
December 28, 202533460
January 5, 202633665
January 12, 202633876
January 19, 202634022
January 26, 202634191
February 2, 202634377
February 10, 202634618
February 17, 202634783
February 24, 202634966
March 3, 202635164
March 10, 202635332
March 18, 202635647
March 25, 202635839
April 1, 202635948
April 8, 202636105
April 15, 202636246
April 23, 202636354
April 30, 202636466
May 7, 202636605
May 14, 202636686
May 23, 202636745
May 30, 202636795
June 6, 202636826
June 18, 202636842
June 26, 202636854
July 6, 202636866
July 27, 202636873
August 26, 202636883
September 7, 202636934
September 16, 202636977
Star history for kovidgoyal/kitty
DateStars
December 6, 20162
February 19, 2017694
May 4, 2017767
July 18, 2017862
September 10, 2017968
October 23, 20171082
December 5, 20171401
January 17, 20181622
February 28, 20182149
April 12, 20182522
June 1, 20183170
July 15, 20183428
August 26, 20183692
October 7, 20184915
November 18, 20185224
December 31, 20185485
February 11, 20195794
March 25, 20196204
May 6, 20196562
June 17, 20196879
July 29, 20197156
September 9, 20197537
October 21, 20197784
December 2, 20198104
January 13, 20208345
February 23, 20208657
April 5, 20208943
May 17, 20209265
June 28, 20209529
August 9, 20209787
October 1, 202010181
November 11, 202010502
December 23, 202010804
February 3, 202111169
March 17, 202111477
April 28, 202111830
June 12, 202112201
July 24, 202112515
September 7, 202112833
October 20, 202113076
December 9, 202113581
January 20, 202214112
March 3, 202214636
April 14, 202215160
May 26, 202215626
July 7, 202216026
August 18, 202216588
September 29, 202217055
November 10, 202217502
December 21, 202217916
February 10, 202318713
March 24, 202319200
May 5, 202319643
June 16, 202320050
July 28, 202320575
September 7, 202320985
October 19, 202321343
November 30, 202321789
January 11, 202422229
February 22, 202422702
April 4, 202423214
May 16, 202423692
June 27, 202424289
August 8, 202424967
September 19, 202425602
October 31, 202426217
December 12, 202426817
January 23, 202527956
March 6, 202528475
April 17, 202529092
June 6, 202529641
July 19, 202529949
August 30, 202530335
October 17, 202530668
November 28, 202530958
January 9, 202631258
February 20, 202631546
April 3, 202631737
May 20, 202631859
September 16, 202631944
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Repository health compared

Live analysis · unavailable data stays labelled

Popularity is only one axis. Compare technical scale, maintenance cadence, ownership resilience and change pressure against the same completed analysis that sits behind each report.

Reach

Popularity and real-world adoption

Signalghostty-org/ghosttykovidgoyal/kitty
GitHub starsCurrent public GitHub metadata total.Best result in this row: 61,17634,910
Stars gained · trailing 90dChange in the newest 90 days covered by each cached series.Best result in this row: +135+54
ForksCurrent public GitHub metadata total.Not availableNot available
Largest package audienceLargest resolved registry total; sources are shown explicitly.No resolved packageNo resolved package
Repository ageElapsed years since the GitHub creation timestamp.4.5 years9.9 years

Codebase

Size and technical center of gravity

Signalghostty-org/ghosttykovidgoyal/kitty
Dominant languageLargest share of analyzed code lines at current HEAD.Not availableNot available
Code linesAnalyzed source lines at current HEAD, excluding blanks and comments.Not availableNot available
Languages representedLanguages with non-zero files or line counts.Not availableNot available

Maintenance

Commit volume and recent operating cadence

Signalghostty-org/ghosttykovidgoyal/kitty
Repository commitsFull repository commit total reported by the analysis.Not availableNot available
Commits · trailing 90dCommit count in the newest 90 days covered by the repository analysis.Not availableNot available

Ownership

How broadly maintenance responsibility is distributed

Signalghostty-org/ghosttykovidgoyal/kitty
Bus factorFewest analyzed contributors carrying at least half the commits.Not availableNot available
Top contributor concentrationShare of attributed commits carried by the most active contributor.Not availableNot available

Change signals

Debt markers and fix pressure in frequently changed files

Signalghostty-org/ghosttykovidgoyal/kitty
Fix-labelled share · frequently changed filesFix-labelled commits divided by commits across the analyzed high-frequency file set.Not availableNot available
Recent TODO/FIXME movementLatest cumulative marker count and its change over the trailing 90 days.Not availableNot available

Both curves are drawn on shared axes. They are not drawn from a shared source: each series names its own below.

One axis, two sources

The overlay puts both repositories on one axis. It does not put them on one source: since July 2026 a stargazer-list series stops on a fixed date, while a series rebuilt from public archive events keeps receiving points. Each column below states its own reading.

How the star series for ghostty-org/ghostty and kovidgoyal/kitty were read
Fieldghostty-org/ghosttykovidgoyal/kitty
SourceHistorical star dataHistorical star data
CoverageCovers through September 16, 2026Covers through September 16, 2026
StateStill updatingStill updating

No row states how much of a history is missing. An archive series records star actions and not unstars, so it can exceed a repository's own star total, and a figure for the difference would be wrong exactly where it looks most precise.

Notes on this comparison

  • Which has more GitHub stars, ghostty-org/ghostty or kovidgoyal/kitty?

    GitHub reports 61,176 stars for ghostty-org/ghostty and 34,910 for kovidgoyal/kitty.

  • Do both star histories cover the same period?

    Not necessarily, and each chart names its own. ghostty-org/ghostty — Historical star data · Covers through September 16, 2026 · Still updating. kovidgoyal/kitty — Historical star data · Covers through September 16, 2026 · Still updating. Since July 2026 GitHub serves a repository's stargazer list only to its own admins and collaborators, so one series can stop on a fixed date while the other keeps flowing from public archive events.

  • How is this comparison computed?

    Star totals come from public repository metadata. The two curves are each repository's stored star series drawn on shared axes, from whichever source is named above. Repository-health figures are computed independently from each project's commit history.