No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
django-simple-captcha has 209K monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 0.6.3, first published in 2012.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Dec 2025.
It is built on top of django, django-ranged-response and pillow. It is used by 17 tracked packages, including tendenci, django-base-ai and karaage.
GitHub topics include django and captcha.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
69
Adoption
73
Community
75
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
211 days ago
Monthly downloads
208,919
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
208,919
Stars
1,424
Stars per 1k downloads
6.82
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
6,970
Month daily avg
6,964
Momentum
+0.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
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
211 days ago
Total releases
41
Releases/year
2.9
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
51
Monthly downloads
208,919
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
72
Issue Burden
21.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.7%
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
3.6K
Windows
61
macOS
22
Python Versions
3.11
49.0%
1.4K
3.12
22.0%
649
3.13
12.0%
355
3.10
9.7%
286
3.14
7.3%
216
Top Countries
1.
US
3.0K
US
2.
SG
162
SG
3.
DE
133
DE
4.
CN
68
CN
5.
RU
68
RU
6.
IN
60
IN
7.
HK
41
HK
8.
FR
28
FR
9.
NL
27
NL
10.
BG
16
BG
Dependencies
3
- django >=4.2
- django-ranged-response ==0.2.0
- pillow >=6.2.0
1 optional dependencies
- testfixtures[test]
Used By
17
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
April 4, 2012
Last Release
7 months ago
Last Commit
7 months ago
Latest Version
0.6.3
Total Releases
41
Contributors
51
Open PRs
9
Archived
No
Author
Marco Bonetti
Python Versions
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh