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Top 100 C# repositories on GitHub, ranked by stars
C#'s ranking is .NET tooling, desktop utilities, media servers and game mods. It is also the most permissively licensed list in the dataset — MIT alone covers more than 40 of the 100 repositories.
GitHub reports 7,723,088 repositories whose detected primary language is C#. The 100 most-starred of them are listed below, ranked by stargazers_count. 2dust/v2rayN leads with 117,665 stars, and the bar for 100th place is 10,631 stars. The median repository in this top 100 has 15,523 stars, and the most common licence is MIT (43 of 100 repositories).
- 100 repositories ranked
- 117,665 stars for #1
- 10,631 stars to enter the top 100
- 15,523 median stars in the top 100
- 7,723,088 repositories GitHub reports
- 568.3 KB JSONL file
The 100 most-starred C# repositories
| # | Repository | ★ Stars | Forks | Open issues | Licence | Last push | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2dust/v2rayN | 117,665 | 16,031 | 16 | GPL-3.0 | A GUI client for Windows, Linux and macOS, support Xray and sing-box and others | |
| 2 | shadowsocks/shadowsocks-windows | 59,546 | 16,165 | 202 | NOASSERTION | A C# port of shadowsocks | |
| 3 | jellyfin/jellyfin | 57,802 | 5,591 | 728 | GPL-2.0 | The Free Software Media System - Server Backend & API | |
| 4 | PowerShell/PowerShell | 55,602 | 8,473 | 1,606 | MIT | PowerShell for every system! | |
| 5 | files-community/Files | 45,827 | 2,952 | 456 | MIT | A modern file manager that helps users organize their files and folders. | |
| 6 | ShareX/ShareX | 39,895 | 3,946 | 628 | GPL-3.0 | ShareX is a free and open-source application that enables users to capture or record any area of their screen with a single keystroke. It a… | |
| 7 | huiyadanli/RevokeMsgPatcher | 38,886 | 4,078 | 61 | GPL-3.0 | :trollface: A hex editor for WeChat/QQ/TIM - PC版微信/QQ/TIM防撤回补丁（我已经看到了，撤回也没用了） | |
| 8 | dotnet/aspnetcore | 38,466 | 12,843 | 4,218 | MIT | ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux. | |
| 9 | DevToys-app/DevToys | 32,062 | 1,763 | 338 | MIT | A Swiss Army knife for developers. | |
| 10 | AvaloniaUI/Avalonia | 31,625 | 2,836 | 1,939 | MIT | Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The future of .NET UI | |
| 11 | iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI | 31,595 | 2,148 | 80 | Apache-2.0 | OfficeCLI is the first and best Office suite purpose-built for AI agents to read, edit, and automate Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. Fr… | |
| 12 | microsoft/calculator | 31,068 | 5,818 | 474 | MIT | Windows Calculator: A simple yet powerful calculator that ships with Windows | |
| 13 | k1tbyte/Wand-Enhancer | 30,749 | 79,498 | 69 | Apache-2.0 | Advanced UX and interoperability extension for Wand (WeMod) app | |
| 14 | dnSpy/dnSpy | 29,671 | 5,656 | 185 | — | .NET debugger and assembly editor | |
| 15 | microsoft/semantic-kernel | 28,629 | 4,813 | 349 | MIT | Integrate cutting-edge LLM technology quickly and easily into your apps | |
| 16 | NickeManarin/ScreenToGif | 27,748 | 2,370 | 340 | MS-PL | 🎬 ScreenToGif allows you to record a selected area of your screen, edit and save it as a gif or video. | |
| 17 | BeyondDimension/SteamTools | 27,061 | 1,723 | 1,161 | GPL-3.0 | 🛠「Watt Toolkit」是一个开源跨平台的多功能 Steam 工具箱。 | |
| 18 | Devolutions/UniGetUI | 26,392 | 939 | 457 | MIT | UniGetUI: The Graphical Interface for your package managers. Could be terribly described as a package manager manager to manage your packag… | |
| 19 | icsharpcode/ILSpy | 26,208 | 3,717 | 163 | MIT | .NET Decompiler with support for PDB generation, ReadyToRun, Metadata (&more) - cross-platform! | |
| 20 | mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse | 25,378 | 1,362 | 9 | NOASSERTION | Bitmap & tilemap generation from a single example with the help of ideas from quantum mechanics | |
| 21 | QL-Win/QuickLook | 25,152 | 1,333 | 215 | GPL-3.0 | Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows | |
| 22 | dotnet-architecture/eShopOnContainers | 24,302 | 10,055 | 71 | — | Cross-platform .NET sample microservices and container based application that runs on Linux Windows and macOS. Powered by .NET 7, Docker Co… | |
| 23 | dotnet/maui | 23,321 | 1,983 | 3,946 | MIT | .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop. | |
| 24 | CodeHubApp/CodeHub | 22,554 | 609 | 237 | — | CodeHub is an iOS application written using Xamarin | |
| 25 | QuantConnect/Lean | 21,864 | 5,282 | 259 | Apache-2.0 | Lean Algorithmic Trading Engine by QuantConnect (Python, C#) | |
| 26 | BCUninstaller/Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller | 21,676 | 938 | 176 | Apache-2.0 | Remove large amounts of unwanted applications quickly. | |
| 27 | thangchung/awesome-dotnet-core | 21,399 | 2,955 | 219 | — | :honeybee: A collection of awesome .NET core libraries, tools, frameworks and software | |
| 28 | dotnet/roslyn | 20,707 | 4,335 | 6,698 | MIT | The Roslyn .NET compiler provides C# and Visual Basic languages with rich code analysis APIs. | |
| 29 | jasontaylordev/CleanArchitecture | 20,625 | 4,292 | 16 | MIT | Clean Architecture Solution Template for ASP.NET Core | |
| 30 | peass-ng/PEASS-ng | 20,615 | 3,395 | 0 | NOASSERTION | PEASS - Privilege Escalation Awesome Scripts SUITE (with colors) | |
| 31 | bitwarden/server | 20,240 | 1,784 | 246 | NOASSERTION | Bitwarden infrastructure/backend (API, database, Docker, etc). | |
| 32 | BluePointLilac/ContextMenuManager | 20,210 | 884 | 178 | GPL-3.0 | 🖱️ 纯粹的Windows右键菜单管理程序 | |
| 33 | lively-community/lively | 19,756 | 1,370 | 391 | GPL-3.0 | Free and open-source software that allows users to set animated desktop wallpapers and screensavers powered by WinUI 3. | |
| 34 | Unity-Technologies/ml-agents | 19,720 | 4,501 | 21 | NOASSERTION | The Unity Machine Learning Agents Toolkit (ML-Agents) is an open-source project that enables games and simulations to serve as environments… | |
| 35 | TGSAN/CMWTAT_Digital_Edition | 19,541 | 2,182 | 33 | NOASSERTION | CloudMoe Windows 10/11 Activation Toolkit get digital license, the best open source Win 10/11 activator in GitHub. GitHub 上最棒的开源 Win10/Win1… | |
| 36 | ppy/osu | 19,223 | 2,841 | 1,887 | MIT | rhythm is just a *click* away! | |
| 37 | ardalis/CleanArchitecture | 18,506 | 3,115 | 43 | MIT | Clean Architecture Solution Template: A proven Clean Architecture Template for ASP.NET Core 10 | |
| 38 | DapperLib/Dapper | 18,394 | 3,666 | 552 | NOASSERTION | Dapper - a simple object mapper for .Net | |
| 39 | dotnet/runtime | 18,313 | 5,640 | 8,086 | MIT | .NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps. | |
| 40 | hellzerg/optimizer | 18,265 | 1,227 | 91 | GPL-3.0 | The finest Windows Optimizer | |
| 41 | netchx/netch | 17,698 | 2,841 | 5 | GPL-3.0 | A simple proxy client | |
| 42 | OpenRA/OpenRA | 17,489 | 3,059 | 1,588 | GPL-3.0 | Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL… | |
| 43 | Sonarr/Sonarr | 16,825 | 2,020 | 95 | GPL-3.0 | Smart PVR for newsgroup and bittorrent users. | |
| 44 | Tyrrrz/YoutubeDownloader | 16,353 | 2,072 | 29 | MIT | Downloads videos and playlists from YouTube | |
| 45 | MaterialDesignInXAML/MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit | 16,272 | 3,497 | 146 | MIT | Google's Material Design in XAML & WPF, for C# & VB.Net. | |
| 46 | Jackett/Jackett | 16,143 | 1,578 | 223 | GPL-2.0 | API Support for your favorite torrent trackers | |
| 47 | nilaoda/N_m3u8DL-CLI | 16,119 | 2,287 | 257 | MIT | [.NET] m3u8 downloader 开源的命令行m3u8/HLS/dash下载器，支持普通AES-128-CBC解密，多线程，自定义请求头等. 支持简体中文,繁体中文和英文. English Supported. | |
| 48 | babalae/better-genshin-impact | 15,921 | 1,176 | 518 | GPL-3.0 | 📦BetterGI · 更好的原神 - 自动拾取 | 自动剧情 | 全自动钓鱼(AI) | 全自动七圣召唤 | 自动伐木 | 自动刷本 | 自动采集/挖矿/锄地 | 一条龙 | 全连音游 | 自动烹饪 | 桌面分身 - UI Automation Testing Tools F… | |
| 49 | Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher | 15,718 | 656 | 309 | MIT | :mag: Quick file search & app launcher for Windows with community-made plugins | |
| 50 | Perfare/AssetStudio | 15,592 | 2,975 | 182 | MIT | AssetStudio is a tool for exploring, extracting and exporting assets and assetbundles. | |
| 51 | seerge/g-helper | 15,454 | 611 | 114 | GPL-3.0 | Lightweight Armoury Crate alternative for Asus laptops with nearly the same functionality. Works with ROG Zephyrus, Flow, TUF, Strix, Scar,… | |
| 52 | Tichau/FileConverter | 15,313 | 931 | 358 | GPL-3.0 | File Converter is a very simple tool which allows you to convert and compress files using the context menu in windows explorer. | |
| 53 | duplicati/duplicati | 15,062 | 1,082 | 614 | NOASSERTION | Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud! | |
| 54 | srwi/EverythingToolbar | 14,842 | 564 | 26 | NOASSERTION | Everything integration for the Windows taskbar. | |
| 55 | dotnet/efcore | 14,801 | 3,431 | 2,361 | MIT | EF Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations. | |
| 56 | CoplayDev/unity-mcp | 14,710 | 1,535 | 91 | MIT | Unity MCP acts as a bridge between AI assistants and your Unity Editor. Give your LLM tools to manage assets, control scenes, edit scripts,… | |
| 57 | d2phap/ImageGlass | 14,555 | 752 | 225 | NOASSERTION | 🏞 A fast, open-source, modern image viewer for 90+ formats – including WEBP, GIF, SVG, AVIF, JXL, HEIC and more – built for smooth browsing… | |
| 58 | Radarr/Radarr | 14,505 | 1,232 | 532 | GPL-3.0 | Movie organizer/manager for usenet and torrent users. | |
| 59 | MonoGame/MonoGame | 14,487 | 3,115 | 756 | NOASSERTION | One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games. | |
| 60 | SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit | 14,449 | 1,315 | 146 | MIT | the subtitle editor :) | |
| 61 | abpframework/abp | 14,441 | 3,723 | 306 | LGPL-3.0 | Open-source web application framework for ASP.NET Core! Offers an opinionated architecture to build enterprise software solutions with best… | |
| 62 | winsw/winsw | 14,340 | 1,701 | 251 | MIT | A wrapper executable that can run any executable as a Windows service, in a permissive license. | |
| 63 | App-vNext/Polly | 14,245 | 1,292 | 2 | BSD-3-Clause | Polly is a .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library that allows developers to express policies such as Retry, Circuit Breaker,… | |
| 64 | QuestPDF/QuestPDF | 14,190 | 773 | 38 | NOASSERTION | QuestPDF is a modern library for PDF document generation. Its fluent C# API lets you design complex layouts with clean, readable code. Crea… | |
| 65 | JosefNemec/Playnite | 14,130 | 696 | 656 | MIT | Video game library manager with support for wide range of 3rd party libraries and game emulation support, providing one unified interface f… | |
| 66 | kgrzybek/modular-monolith-with-ddd | 14,051 | 2,191 | 68 | MIT | Full Modular Monolith application with Domain-Driven Design approach. | |
| 67 | nilaoda/BBDown | 13,876 | 1,746 | 245 | MIT | Bilibili Downloader. 一个命令行式哔哩哔哩下载器. | |
| 68 | JustArchiNET/ArchiSteamFarm | 13,733 | 1,120 | 3 | Apache-2.0 | C# application with primary purpose of farming Steam cards from multiple accounts simultaneously. | |
| 69 | MiniMax-AI/skills | 13,672 | 1,195 | 77 | MIT | ||
| 70 | memstechtips/Winhance | 13,331 | 644 | 63 | NOASSERTION | Application designed to optimize, customize and enhance your Windows experience. | |
| 71 | dotnet/AspNetCore.Docs | 13,136 | 24,562 | 539 | CC-BY-4.0 | Documentation for ASP.NET Core | |
| 72 | Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference | 13,013 | 2,555 | 19 | NOASSERTION | Unity C# reference source code. | |
| 73 | OdysseusYuan/LKY_OfficeTools | 12,805 | 1,225 | 4 | GPL-3.0 | 一键自动化 下载、安装、激活 Office 的利器。 | |
| 74 | dotnet/csharplang | 12,719 | 1,080 | 291 | — | The official repo for the design of the C# programming language | |
| 75 | wmjordan/PDFPatcher | 12,711 | 1,580 | 106 | — | PDF补丁丁——PDF工具箱，可以编辑书签、剪裁旋转页面、解除限制、提取或合并文档，探查文档结构，提取图片、转成图片等等 | |
| 76 | Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter | 12,125 | 1,026 | 15 | MIT | Saves Discord chat logs to a file | |
| 77 | microsoft/garnet | 12,041 | 709 | 58 | MIT | Garnet is a remote cache-store from Microsoft Research that offers strong performance (throughput and latency), scalability, storage, recov… | |
| 78 | aspnetboilerplate/aspnetboilerplate | 11,998 | 3,811 | 60 | MIT | ASP.NET Boilerplate - Web Application Framework | |
| 79 | lucasg/Dependencies | 11,876 | 948 | 143 | MIT | A rewrite of the old legacy software "depends.exe" in C# for Windows devs to troubleshoot dll load dependencies issues. | |
| 80 | LuckyPennySoftware/MediatR | 11,856 | 2,180 | 3 | NOASSERTION | Simple, unambitious mediator implementation in .NET | |
| 81 | Kareadita/Kavita | 11,805 | 680 | 181 | GPL-3.0 | Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server. Built with the goal of being a full solution for all your reading needs. Set… | |
| 82 | lostindark/DriverStoreExplorer | 11,778 | 557 | 25 | GPL-2.0 | Driver Store Explorer | |
| 83 | xupefei/Locale-Emulator | 11,680 | 839 | 212 | LGPL-3.0 | Yet Another System Region and Language Simulator | |
| 84 | spectreconsole/spectre.console | 11,654 | 679 | 176 | MIT | A .NET library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications. | |
| 85 | chocolatey/choco | 11,536 | 963 | 521 | NOASSERTION | Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows | |
| 86 | dotnet/BenchmarkDotNet | 11,505 | 1,075 | 166 | MIT | Powerful .NET library for benchmarking | |
| 87 | mono/mono | 11,473 | 3,805 | 2,267 | NOASSERTION | Mono open source ECMA CLI, C# and .NET implementation. | |
| 88 | File-New-Project/EarTrumpet | 11,417 | 608 | 118 | NOASSERTION | EarTrumpet - Volume Control for Windows | |
| 89 | JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json | 11,313 | 3,299 | 817 | MIT | Json.NET is a popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET | |
| 90 | tui-cs/Terminal.Gui | 11,244 | 794 | 49 | MIT | Cross Platform Terminal UI toolkit for .NET | |
| 91 | Cysharp/UniTask | 11,237 | 1,015 | 19 | MIT | Provides an efficient allocation free async/await integration for Unity. | |
| 92 | mRemoteNG/mRemoteNG | 11,139 | 1,616 | 822 | GPL-2.0 | mRemoteNG is the next generation of mRemote, open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager. | |
| 93 | coding-horror/basic-computer-games | 11,095 | 1,344 | 14 | Unlicense | An updated version of the classic "Basic Computer Games" book, with well-written examples in a variety of common MEMORY SAFE, SCRIPTING pro… | |
| 94 | YSGStudyHards/DotNetGuide | 11,032 | 1,506 | 13 | MIT | 🌈【C#/.NET/.NET Core学习、工作、面试指南】记录、收集和总结C#/.NET/.NET Core基础知识、学习路线、开发实战、编程技巧练习、学习视频、文章、书籍、项目框架、社区组织、开发必备工具、技术前沿周刊、常见面试题、面试须知、简历模板、人才招聘、以及自己在学… | |
| 95 | dotnet/eShop | 10,934 | 3,856 | 124 | MIT | A reference .NET application implementing an eCommerce site | |
| 96 | dotnet/orleans | 10,897 | 2,135 | 616 | MIT | Cloud Native application framework for .NET | |
| 97 | MathewSachin/Captura | 10,848 | 1,974 | 116 | MIT | Capture Screen, Audio, Cursor, Mouse Clicks and Keystrokes | |
| 98 | StockSharp/StockSharp | 10,831 | 2,275 | 3 | NOASSERTION | Algorithmic trading and quantitative trading open source platform to develop trading robots (stock markets, forex, crypto, bitcoins, and op… | |
| 99 | dotnet-architecture/eShopOnWeb | 10,680 | 6,044 | 20 | MIT | Sample ASP.NET Core 8.0 reference application, now community supported: https://github.com/NimblePros/eShopOnWeb | |
| 100 | MudBlazor/MudBlazor | 10,631 | 1,691 | 761 | MIT | Blazor Component Library based on Material Design principles. Do more with Blazor, utilizing CSS and keeping JavaScript to a bare minimum. |
Fork counts include open pull requests in
open_issues_count, because that is how GitHub's API reports it.
Descriptions are truncated to 140 characters; the full text is in the JSONL
download.
Download the C# data
- JSONL — raw GitHub Search API objects (568.3 KB, 100 lines)
- Markdown table of the same ranking
- All 30 JSONL files
curl -sSL -o c#.jsonl \
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/havaianasdestruido/top100/main/data/JSONL/c%23.jsonl
jq -r '.full_name + " " + (.stargazers_count|tostring)' c#.jsonl | head -10How this list is built
A single GitHub Search API request per language —
?q=language:c#&sort=stars&order=desc&per_page=100
— refreshed hourly by a scheduled GitHub Actions workflow and committed back to
the repository. The records are never reshaped: every field GitHub returned is
preserved. The methodology page covers the query,
the rate limits, the fields the Search API omits and the known limitations, and the
field reference documents every JSON key.
Frequently asked questions
What is the most-starred C# repository on GitHub?
2dust/v2rayN is the most-starred C# repository with 117,665 stars as of 5 October 2026, ahead of shadowsocks/shadowsocks-windows (59,546) and jellyfin/jellyfin (57,802).
How many C# repositories are on GitHub?
GitHub reports 7,723,088 public repositories whose detected primary language is C#. Top100 ranks the 100 most-starred of them; 100th place currently needs 10,631 stars.
How do I download the top 100 C# repositories as JSON?
Download data/JSONL/c#.jsonl — 100 lines, each the complete GitHub Search API object for one repository, including topics, licence, every count and every timestamp. A readable Markdown table of the same ranking is also published.