GitHub Star History Video Generator
Animate a repository's growth over time as a star history chart video.
How GenMotion's free star history video works
Three steps, no account, and nothing to install.
- Step 1
Paste a repository
Type any public repo as owner/repo, or paste its GitHub URL. We chart its whole life, from its first star to today's total.
- Step 2
Watch the curve draw
The Chart rise style draws the line month by month while the number counts alongside it, so both land together on the live figure.
- Step 3
Download the MP4
Rendered in your browser in a few seconds and saved straight to your machine. No account, no queue.
Who is GenMotion's free star history video for?
Open-source maintainers
Show the shape of a project's growth, not just today's number — the curve tells the story a star count can't.
Founders and indie hackers
A rising line is the clearest traction slide you can make. Drop it into a launch thread, deck or investor update.
Developer advocates
Mark an anniversary or a breakout month with a chart that animates, without opening After Effects.
Frequently asked questions
Enter a repository as owner/repo — for example facebook/react — pick the Chart rise style and a size, then hit Download. The video renders in your browser and saves as an MP4.
From OSS Insight, which derives it from GH Archive — GitHub's public event stream. That gives monthly totals across the repository's whole life, and today's exact total comes from the GitHub API so the chart ends on the live figure.
It stops paginating after 400 pages, about 40,000 stars, so for any popular repository the recent part of the timeline is simply unreachable. The event-stream data has no such ceiling — a repo with 250,000 stars charts in full.
Usually because it was renamed or transferred; history follows the repository's current name, which we resolve automatically. Very new repositories may also not have enough months to chart yet.
Yes — free, no sign-up, and no limit on how many videos you make.
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