Awesome

GitHub projects from awesome lists

Search awesome repositories

Search names, descriptions, topics, tags, and stacks, then tune results by ecosystem, freshness, health, and cross-list signal.

Continue with GitHub Browse awesome lists Request a list

Repos indexed: 21,464
Awesome lists tracked: 149
Current results: 154

Find repositories

Start broad, then narrow by ecosystem, freshness, health, and growth.

Unsure which signals matter? Read the repository shortlisting guide.

Clear 1 refinement

Search repositories

Search mode

Keyword Semantic

Tune results

The controls most people need first.

Awesome list

Language

Freshness

Sort

Direction

More filters Topics, generated tags, stack, files, age, archive status, and growth.

Ecosystem

GitHub topic

Generated tag

Framework or stack

Package manager

Files

Has file

Choose a suggestion or use commas to require multiple files.

Health

Minimum stars

Repository age

Uses known first-commit dates.

Archive status

AI development signals

Momentum

Unmaintained for

Commit velocity

Star growth

Reset filters

154 repos shown

Topic: c

Browse

Highlighted

Open highlighted repo slot

Put your repository first

Promote a GitHub repo at the top of Awesome repository list views for 7 days.

JACoders/OpenJK

Community effort to maintain and improve Jedi Academy (SP & MP) + Jedi Outcast (SP only) released by Raven Software

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c #c-plus-plus #fps #game #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-04
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 282 open

2,296

stars

Forks: 727
Commits: 4,677 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

liballeg/allegro5

The official Allegro 5 git repository. Pull requests welcome!

Stack

C Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #audio #c #game-development #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2000-05-14
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 393 open

2,127

stars

Forks: 323
Commits: 12,180 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

da-luce/astroterm

A planetarium for your terminal! Explore stars, planets, constellations, and more, all rendered right in the command line—no telescope required. ✨🪐

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#ascii #ascii-art #c #command-line #console #linux

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-06-16
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 36 open

2,047

stars

Forks: 50
Commits: 193 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

hfiref0x/WinObjEx64

Windows Object Explorer 64-bit

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c #objects-namespace #windbg #winobj

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-02-23
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 0 open

1,986

stars

Forks: 317
Commits: 311 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef

DeaDBeeF Player

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#audio-player #c #cross-platform #customizable-ui #linux-app #mac-app

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-07-03
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 378 open

1,962

stars

Forks: 208
Commits: 12,100 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mgerdes/Open-Golf

A cross-platform minigolf game written in C.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#android #c #game #game-dev #game-development #gamedev

Updated: 2024-03-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-09-24
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 27 open

1,930

stars

Forks: 112
Commits: 412 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

DosX-dev/obfus.h

Macro-header for compile-time C polymorphic obfuscation (tcc, win x86/x64)

Stack

C npm

GitHub topics

#c #compile-time #confuse #ctf #easy-to-use #education

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-04-12
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2 open

1,872

stars

Forks: 163
Commits: 394 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

mltframework/mlt

MLT Multimedia Framework

AI dev

Stack

C Qt CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#audio #audio-processing #c #c-plus-plus #ffmpeg #framework

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-12-01
History: 5 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 52 open

1,852

stars

Forks: 387
Commits: 6,773 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Vexu/arocc

A modern fully featured C compiler.

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#c #compiler #zig

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-02-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 50 open

1,844

stars

Forks: 111
Commits: 2,217 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

vergoh/vnstat

vnStat - a network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #network-traffic-monitor #traffic #vnstat

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-24
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 8 open

1,786

stars

Forks: 142
Commits: 1,250 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

jmcnamara/libxlsxwriter

A C library for creating Excel XLSX files.

Stack

C CMake Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#c #libxlsxwriter #spreadsheet #xlsx #xlsx-files #xlsxwriter

Updated: 2026-07-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-08
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 21 open

1,760

stars

Forks: 387
Commits: 1,019 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

HypoPG/hypopg

Hypothetical Indexes for PostgreSQL

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#c #database #extension #hypothetical-indexes #index #indexing

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-03-12
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 8 open

1,728

stars

Forks: 63
Commits: 331 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

leo-arch/clifm

💾 The shell-like, command-line terminal file manager

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#autosuggestion #batch-rename #c #cli #command-line #console

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-02-19
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 26 open

1,726

stars

Forks: 52
Commits: 10,465 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

taisei-project/taisei

A free and open-source Touhou Project fangame

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#c #danmaku #game #glsl #opengl #sdl

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-10-12
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 33 open

1,616

stars

Forks: 130
Commits: 4,723 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

angband/angband

A free, single-player roguelike dungeon exploration game

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#angband #c #game #roguelike

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-03-23
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 228 open

1,569

stars

Forks: 393
Commits: 10,627 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

celluloid-player/celluloid

A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#audio-player #c #celluloid #gnome-mpv #gtk #gtk4

Updated: 2026-08-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-07-30
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 291 open

1,466

stars

Forks: 109
Commits: 1,897 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

belangeo/pyo

Python DSP module

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#audio #c #dsp #music #pyo #python

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-11-04
History: 1 history point
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 32 open

1,458

stars

Forks: 146
Commits: 2,459 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

apache/cloudberry

One advanced and mature open-source MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) database. Open source alternative to Greenplum Database.

Stack

C pytest Starlette CMake Maven Meson

GitHub topics

#ai #big-data #c #cloudberry #data-analysis #data-warehouse

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1996-07-09
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 251 open

1,423

stars

Forks: 260
Commits: 78,254 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

sist2app/sist2

Lightning-fast file system indexer and search tool

Stack

C Vite Vue CMake npm vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c #elasticsearch #sqlite #vuejs

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-28
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 9 open

1,320

stars

Forks: 80
Commits: 1,010 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

schweikert/fping

High performance ping tool

Stack

GitHub topics

#bsd-license #c #fping #icmp #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-08-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-12-10
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 14 open

1,225

stars

Forks: 260
Commits: 853 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pydata/bottleneck

Fast NumPy array functions written in C

Stack

Python pytest pip uv

GitHub topics

#c #c-extension #fast #numpy #python

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-11-19
History: 9 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 63 open

1,183

stars

Forks: 118
Commits: 1,478 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

cxong/cdogs-sdl

Classic overhead run-and-gun game

Stack

C CMake Conan Poetry

GitHub topics

#2d #2d-game #c #game #games #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-04-01
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 112 open

1,091

stars

Forks: 157
Commits: 4,458 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

confluentinc/librdkafka

The Apache Kafka C/C++ library

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#apache-kafka #c #c-plus-plus #consumer #high-performance #kafka

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-09-19
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 616 open

1,067

stars

Forks: 3,272
Commits: 4,754 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

skx/sysadmin-util

Tools for Linux/Unix sysadmins.

Archived

Stack

Perl

GitHub topics

#bash #c #perl #sysadmin #utilities

Updated: 2020-03-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-14
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

1,004

stars

Forks: 113
Commits: 142 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

HDFGroup/hdf5

Official HDF5® Library Repository

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #cpp #database #fortran #hdf #hdf5

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1997-07-30
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 361 open

993

stars

Forks: 364
Commits: 24,579 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

MidnightCommander/mc

Midnight Commander's repository

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #console #file-manager #midnight-commander #terminal-based

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 1997-01-01
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 701 open

993

stars

Forks: 112
Commits: 17,006 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

GenericMappingTools/gmt

The Generic Mapping Tools

Stack

C CMake pip

GitHub topics

#c #earth-science #generic-mapping-tools #geophysics #geospatial #mapping

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2000-12-28
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 227 open

985

stars

Forks: 414
Commits: 27,553 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

PQClean/PQClean

Clean, portable, tested implementations of post-quantum cryptography

Archived

Stack

C pytest pip

GitHub topics

#c #cryptography #implementations #post-quantum #post-quantum-cryptography #pqc

Updated: 2026-08-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-11
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 42 open

957

stars

Forks: 193
Commits: 1,408 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

alexpovel/srgn

A grep-like tool which understands source code syntax and allows for manipulation in addition to search

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#abstract-syntax-tree #c #clang #cli #csharp #go

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-04-30
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

912

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 799 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

CCExtractor/ccextractor

CCExtractor - Official version maintained by the core team

Stack

C Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c #cea-608 #cea-708 #dvb #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest2021

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-12
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 42 open

902

stars

Forks: 590
Commits: 3,352 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Search awesome repositories

Find repositories

Put your repository first

How it works

Pricing

How it works

Pricing