GIMP
100 · HealthyRaster image editor for photo retouching, compositing and graphic design, with layers, masks and plug-ins.
Open source Design & image editing
Krita
96 · HealthyDigital painting and image editing app with brushes, layers, animation and color management.
Penpot
92 · HealthyBrowser-based design and prototyping tool for product teams, built on open standards such as SVG, CSS and HTML.
Mermaid
89 · HealthyGenerates flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts and more from text definitions.
PhotoCraft
83 · HealthyPhotoshop-style desktop image editor written in Rust, with layers, masks, adjustment layers and native PSD files.
draw.io
67 · StableDiagram editor for flowcharts, network diagrams, org charts and UML, in the browser or on the desktop.
OpenPencil
66 · StableAI-native editor for designing interfaces, positioned as a Figma replacement.
Excalidraw
65 · StableVirtual whiteboard for hand-drawn style diagrams and sketches, with real-time collaboration.
Graphite
64 · StableNode-based 2D editor for vector and raster graphics, procedural design and motion graphics.
GIMP
Raster image editor for photo retouching, compositing and graphic design, with layers, masks and plug-ins.
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Will it still be around?
Healthy
Score 100/100
Can a business use it freely?
Free, share changes
GPL-3.0-or-later · open source (copyleft)
Health score: 100/100
Healthy · activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness, from GitHub
Score v2 · How it works
Activity
45% weight100/100
- Last commit today (100/100).
- 3437 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
- No GitHub releases published, so release cadence is not scored.
Bus factor
30% weight100/100
- Top contributor wrote 16% of the last 100 commits (past 12 months).
- 19 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness
25% weightNot scored; its weight is shared by the other parts.
- Issues are disabled on GitHub, so this part is not scored.
License
Free, share changes
GPL-3.0-or-later · Open source (copyleft)
What you need to do
Free for any use, commercial included. Running it in your company, changed or not, asks nothing of you; only if you hand modified copies to others must you publish your changes under the same license.
For GIMP
The application core is GPL; plug-ins may use other licenses.
GPL-3.0-or-later · Open source (copyleft). OSI-approved license that requires sharing changes under the same license when you distribute (AGPL: also when you offer it over a network).
License text checked 2026-10-09 · Read it
GitHub activity
- Stars
- 6.5k
- Forks
- 896
- Commits, 12 mo
- 3.4k
- last today
- Releases
- –
- none on GitHub
- Contributors
- 171
- 19 in last 100 commits
- Issues
- Off
- disabled on GitHub
Snapshot from 2026-10-09
Top contributors
How points workNo pull requests merged on GitHub since 9 October 2025. Some projects, such as Odoo, merge changes outside GitHub's merge button, so their contributors don't show here yet.