Top C Repositories
The most popular C repositories on GitHub, ranked by stars, forks, and contributors.
Genymobile / scrcpy
A lightweight, high-performance tool to mirror and control Android devices from a computer via USB or Wi-Fi. No root required, no app installed on device. Supports audio forwarding, screen recording, camera mirroring, virtual display, physical keyboard/mouse/gamepad simulation, OTG mode, and can turn Android camera into a PC webcam. Cross-platform: Linux, Windows, macOS.
microsoft / PowerToys
Microsoft PowerToys is a suite of 30+ free Windows utilities for power users, including FancyZones for custom window layouts, a quick launcher, batch rename, color picker, screen OCR, keyboard remapping, cross-PC mouse control, and more—streamlining workflows and boosting productivity.
ventoy / Ventoy
Ventoy is an open-source tool for creating bootable USB drives. Simply copy ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the drive and boot them directly without reformatting. Supports Legacy BIOS, UEFI, and multiple architectures.
OBS Studio is a free and open-source application for video capturing, compositing, encoding, recording, and live streaming. Designed for efficiency, it supports a wide range of sources and plugins, making it a powerful tool for content creators, streamers, and educators across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
redis / redis
Redis is the preferred, fastest, and most feature-rich cache, data structure server, and document and vector query engine for building real-time data-driven applications.
FFmpeg / FFmpeg
FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution for recording, converting, and streaming audio and video. It includes libraries for codec implementation, format handling, filtering, and tools like ffmpeg, ffplay, and ffprobe for multimedia processing.
git / git
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed version control system designed to handle projects of all sizes with speed and efficiency. It provides a rich command set for both high-level operations and full access to internals, originally created by Linus Torvalds.
JustVugg / colibri
Colibri is a lightweight, pure C inference engine with zero external dependencies for running frontier MoE models (like GLM-5, DeepSeek V4, and Kimi K3) on consumer hardware. By treating VRAM, RAM, and NVMe storage as a multitier memory hierarchy, it dynamically streams experts on demand to run giant models locally.
A high-performance code intelligence MCP server written in pure C. Indexes repositories into a persistent knowledge graph supporting 158 languages via tree-sitter and Hybrid LSP type resolution for 11 languages. Provides sub-ms Cypher queries, call tracing, dead code detection, and cross-service HTTP linking. Ships as a single static binary with zero dependencies, compatible with 11 AI coding agents including Claude Code and Gemini CLI.
curl / curl
A battle-tested CLI tool and C library for URL-based data transfer. Supports 25+ protocols (HTTP/3, FTP, MQTT) with robust TLS, proxy, and auth features. Ideal for API testing, automation scripts, and embedded systems.
php / php-src
Official source code of the PHP interpreter, written in C. PHP is a fast, flexible and pragmatic general-purpose scripting language especially suited for web development, powering everything from personal blogs to the world's most popular websites. Includes the Zend Engine core, bundled extensions, and SAPIs like CLI and FPM.