GitHub Stars Growth Chart
An animated trend line of GitHub stars over time — the classic up-and-to-the-right chart for launch posts and READMEs.
Free to start · Fully editable · Export GIF, MP4, PNG & SVG
What's in this template
6 connected components you can rename, recolor, and extend with AI.
The "GitHub stars over time" chart is the developer world’s favourite growth flex, and this template animates it: a smooth accent curve climbs across the years, values printed at every point, with a glowing beam that traces the line on loop. Edit the years and star counts to match your repo, or repurpose it for users, downloads, or any up-and-to-the-right metric.
Drop the exported GIF into a launch tweet, a README, or a Show HN post — a moving chart stops the scroll where a static screenshot doesn’t. The chart re-renders at any aspect ratio, so the same template works for a wide blog header or a square social card.
Great for
- Launch posts and Show HN threads
- README growth section
- Developer-tool marketing pages
- Year-in-review recap posts
Make your own version with AI
Prefer to start from your own content? Describe it in one sentence and Infogiph generates a github stars growth chart you can edit and animate. For example:
“GitHub Stars Growth Chart showing 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026”
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How to customize this template
- Open it in the canvas with Use this template.
- Select a bar, point or slice and type the real number into its Value field, and the chart redraws to match.
- The market share templates ship with example figures. Replace them with numbers from a source you can cite, and name the source and date wherever you publish the chart.
- Keep donuts to a handful of slices that add up to 100%, and merge small segments into Other.
- Swap icons for brand logos with the icon search, so readers can identify each bar or slice without a legend.
- Export a PNG or SVG for docs and slides, or a GIF or MP4 to keep the animation.
Frequently asked questions
How do I put my own repo’s numbers in?+
Click any point’s node in the canvas and edit its label (the year) and value (the star count). The curve, area fill and value labels re-draw automatically.
Can I use this for metrics other than GitHub stars?+
Absolutely — swap the center label and icon and it becomes a users, revenue, downloads or waitlist growth chart. Any single ascending series works.
Does the drawing animation survive the GIF export?+
Yes. The beam that traces the curve is part of the SVG animation, so GIF and MP4 exports loop it seamlessly.
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Open the github stars growth chart in the Infogiph canvas, then edit, animate, and export.
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