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Top 10 Most-Starred C Repositories

The most popular C projects on GitHub, ranked by stars.

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  1. torvalds/linux

    Linux kernel source tree

    254.1K ★

    No change

  2. Genymobile/scrcpy

    Display and control your Android device

    153.8K ★

    No change

  3. microsoft/PowerToys

    Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that supercharge productivity and customization on Windows

    140.4K ★

    No change
  1. 4ventoy/VentoyA new bootable USB solution.80.5K ★No change
  2. 5obsproject/obs-studioOBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording78.8K ★No change
  3. 6redis/redisFor developers, who are building real-time data-driven applications, Redis is the preferred, fastest, and most feature-rich cache, data stru77.1K ★No change
  4. 7FFmpeg/FFmpegMirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git66.2K ★No change
  5. 8git/gitGit Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget64.1K ★No change
  6. 9tmux/tmuxtmux source code50.1K ★No change
  7. 10DeusData/codebase-memory-mcpLocal code intelligence for developers and AI agents. Connect code, docs and infrastructure in a persistent graph, with CBM Lens, MCP tools,48K ★No change
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  1. 11JustVugg/colibriRun frontier MoE models on hardware you already own — pure C, zero deps, experts streamed from disk. Tiny engine, immense model. 🐦45.8K ★No change
  2. 12curl/curlA command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP,43.3K ★No change
  3. 13php/php-srcThe PHP Interpreter41.8K ★No change
  4. 14wg/wrkModern HTTP benchmarking tool40.4K ★No change
  5. 15pbatard/rufusThe Reliable USB Formatting Utility38.2K ★No change
  6. 16mpv-player/mpv🎥 Command line media player37.7K ★No change
  7. 17jqlang/jqCommand-line JSON processor36K ★No change
  8. 18raysan5/raylibA simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming35.5K ★No change
  9. 19nothings/stbstb single-file public domain libraries for C/C++34.9K ★No change
  10. 20valinet/ExplorerPatcherThis project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows34.2K ★No change
  11. 21bilibili/ijkplayerAndroid/iOS video player based on FFmpeg n3.4, with MediaCodec, VideoToolbox support.33.2K ★No change
  12. 22kingToolbox/WindTermA professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Tmux/Serial terminal.32.6K ★No change
  13. 23nginx/nginxThe official NGINX Open Source repository.32K ★No change
  14. 24lizongying/my-tv我的电视 电视直播软件，安装即可使用32K ★No change
  15. 25coolsnowwolf/ledeLean's LEDE source31.6K ★No change
  16. 26openssl/opensslGeneral purpose TLS and crypto library31.2K ★No change
  17. 27cfenollosa/os-tutorialHow to create an OS from scratch30.8K ★No change
  18. 28asmvik/yabaiA tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning29.8K ★No change
  19. 29openwrt/openwrtThis 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 wil29K ★No change
  20. 30ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPIGoodbyeDPI — Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility (for Windows)28.8K ★No change
  21. 31xiaojieonly/Ehviewer_CN_SXJehviewer，用爱发电，快乐前行28.5K ★No change
  22. 32meta/zstdZstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm28.1K ★No change
  23. 33valkey-io/valkeyA flexible distributed key-value database that is optimized for caching and other realtime workloads.27.6K ★No change
  24. 34libuv/libuvCross-platform asynchronous I/O27.3K ★No change
  25. 35hashcat/hashcatWorld's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility27.2K ★No change
  26. 36ggreer/the_silver_searcherA code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.27.1K ★No change
  27. 37pjreddie/darknetConvolutional Neural Networks26.5K ★No change
  28. 38robertdavidgraham/masscanTCP port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes.26.1K ★No change
  29. 39fastfetch-cli/fastfetchA maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool.25.2K ★No change
  30. 40radareorg/radare2UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset25.2K ★No change
  31. 41taosdata/TDengineHigh-performance, scalable time-series database designed for Industrial IoT (IIoT) scenarios25.2K ★No change
  32. 42lvgl/lvglLVGL is a free, full-featured embedded UI library for devices from small MCUs to 3D-capable MPUs, enhanced by LVGL Pro, a professional edito25.1K ★No change
  33. 43arendst/TasmotaAlternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules,25K ★No change
  34. 44HandBrake/HandBrakeHandBrake's development repository 24.8K ★No change
  35. 45antirez/ds4DeepSeek 4 Flash and PRO local inference engine for Metal, CUDA and ROCm24.2K ★No change
  36. 46timescale/timescaledbA time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres extension23.8K ★No change
  37. 47pgvector/pgvectorOpen-source vector similarity search for Postgres23.6K ★No change
  38. 48iovisor/bccBCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more22.7K ★No change
  39. 49postgres/postgresMirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contrib22.7K ★No change
  40. 50DarkFlippers/unleashed-firmwareFlipper Zero Unleashed Firmware22.6K ★No change

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Repositories whose primary language is C, ranked by stargazer count via the GitHub search API.

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