No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
buildozer has 154K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 1.6.0 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2012.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.
It is built on top of cython, packaging and pexpect. It is used by 6 tracked packages, including illuminat, kaki-cli and mibale.
GitHub topics include packaging, android and ios.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
74
Adoption
71
Community
100
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
43 days ago
Monthly downloads
153,626
Active
Activity within 30 days
•
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
153,626
Stars
2,007
Stars per 1k downloads
13.06
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
•
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
5,231
Month daily avg
5,121
Momentum
+2.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
•
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
56 days ago
Total releases
43
Releases/year
3.2
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
•
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
120
Monthly downloads
153,626
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
80
Issue Burden
40.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
18.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
4.7K
Windows
277
macOS
39
Python Versions
3.12
34.8%
1.8K
3.11
30.5%
1.6K
3.10
22.6%
1.2K
3.13
6.1%
314
3.14
5.9%
307
Top Countries
1.
US
4.1K
US
2.
CN
139
CN
3.
IN
103
IN
4.
SG
98
SG
5.
TW
92
TW
6.
NL
89
NL
7.
RU
71
RU
8.
IR
44
IR
9.
DE
43
DE
10.
BR
32
BR
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
December 19, 2012
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
1.6.0
Total Releases
43
Contributors
120
Open PRs
24
Archived
No
Author
Mathieu Virbel
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh