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ghostty-org/ghostty vs kovidgoyal/kitty

  • ghostty-org/ghostty

    Stars

    61,129

    First recorded star in 2024.

  • kovidgoyal/kitty

    Stars

    34,905

    First recorded star in 2016.

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

ghostty-org/ghostty: 36,968 stars on September 15, 2026. kovidgoyal/kitty: 31,943 stars on September 15, 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 6, 202527016
April 14, 202527284
April 21, 202527522
April 28, 202527771
May 5, 202528004
May 12, 202528212
May 20, 202528464
May 27, 202528646
June 3, 202528785
June 10, 202528940
June 17, 202529092
June 24, 202529442
July 2, 202529701
July 9, 202529904
July 16, 202530050
July 23, 202530190
August 1, 202530407
August 8, 202530565
August 15, 202530705
August 22, 202530977
August 30, 202531149
September 6, 202531267
September 13, 202531497
September 20, 202531703
September 27, 202531910
October 4, 202532038
October 16, 202532180
October 23, 202532286
October 30, 202532387
November 6, 202532525
November 13, 202532619
November 20, 202532717
November 28, 202532819
December 5, 202532943
December 12, 202533083
December 19, 202533220
December 28, 202533460
January 4, 202633637
January 11, 202633850
January 18, 202634011
January 26, 202634191
February 2, 202634377
February 9, 202634587
February 16, 202634759
February 23, 202634928
March 2, 202635143
March 10, 202635332
March 17, 202635616
March 24, 202635815
March 31, 202635933
April 7, 202636091
April 15, 202636246
April 22, 202636342
April 29, 202636444
May 6, 202636600
May 13, 202636681
May 22, 202636736
May 29, 202636787
June 5, 202636818
June 14, 202636841
June 25, 202636852
July 5, 202636865
July 25, 202636872
August 23, 202636882
September 6, 202636931
September 15, 202636968
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 28, 20197141
September 8, 20197529
October 20, 20197775
December 1, 20198099
January 12, 20208339
February 23, 20208657
April 5, 20208943
May 17, 20209265
June 28, 20209529
August 9, 20209787
September 30, 202010104
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 8, 202113560
January 19, 202214092
March 2, 202214618
April 13, 202215141
May 25, 202215612
July 6, 202216014
August 17, 202216572
September 28, 202217032
November 9, 202217497
December 21, 202217916
February 9, 202318699
March 23, 202319190
May 4, 202319633
June 15, 202320040
July 27, 202320563
September 7, 202320985
October 19, 202321343
November 30, 202321789
January 11, 202422229
February 22, 202422702
April 3, 202423205
May 15, 202423676
June 26, 202424273
August 7, 202424961
September 18, 202425589
October 30, 202426201
December 11, 202426799
January 22, 202527942
March 5, 202528463
April 16, 202529084
June 5, 202529629
July 18, 202529943
August 29, 202530323
October 16, 202530662
November 27, 202530954
January 8, 202631252
February 19, 202631543
April 2, 202631733
May 18, 202631858
September 15, 202631943
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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: 61,12934,905
Stars gained · trailing 90dChange in the newest 90 days covered by each cached series.Best result in this row: +127+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 15, 2026Covers through September 15, 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 61,129 stars for ghostty-org/ghostty and 34,905 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 15, 2026 · Still updating. kovidgoyal/kitty — Historical star data · Covers through September 15, 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.