No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
kivy has 262K monthly downloads and 19K GitHub stars. Version 2.3.1 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2011.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Dec 2024.
It is built on top of docutils, filetype and kivy-deps-angle. It is used by 157 tracked packages, including ubo-app, elide and katrain.
GitHub topics include ui, windows and ios.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 552 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
89
Adoption
74
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
261,557
•
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
261,557
Stars
18,966
Stars per 1k downloads
72.51
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
8,897
Month daily avg
8,719
Momentum
+2.0%
((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
557 days ago
Total releases
52
Releases/year
3.4
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
500
Monthly downloads
261,557
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
71
Issue Burden
38.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
552d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
4.3K
Windows
1.8K
macOS
315
Python Versions
3.13
31.1%
2.0K
3.11
29.3%
1.9K
3.12
22.6%
1.4K
3.14
9.1%
585
3.10
7.8%
502
Top Countries
1.
US
4.2K
US
2.
SG
502
SG
3.
IN
251
IN
4.
CN
249
CN
5.
DE
114
DE
6.
RU
87
RU
7.
BR
84
BR
8.
IR
83
IR
9.
UA
56
UA
10.
CH
53
CH
Dependencies
9
- docutils
- filetype
- kivy-deps-angle ~=0.4.0
- kivy-deps-glew ~=0.3.1
- kivy-deps-sdl2 ~=0.8.0
- kivy-garden >=0.1.4
- pygments
- pypiwin32
- requests
25 optional dependencies
- ffpyplayer[media]
- ffpyplayer[full]
- flake8[dev]
- kivy-deps-angle[angle]
- kivy-deps-glew[glew]
- kivy-deps-glew-dev[dev]
- kivy-deps-gstreamer[full]
- kivy-deps-gstreamer[gstreamer]
- kivy-deps-gstreamer[media]
- kivy-deps-gstreamer-dev[dev]
- kivy-deps-sdl2[sdl2]
- kivy-deps-sdl2-dev[dev]
- oscpy[tuio]
- pillow[full]
- pillow[base]
- pre-commit[dev]
- pyinstaller[dev]
- pytest[dev]
- pytest-asyncio[dev]
- pytest-benchmark[dev]
- pytest-cov[dev]
- pytest-timeout[dev]
- responses[dev]
- sphinx[dev]
- sphinxcontrib-jquery[dev]
Used By
157
- ubo-app
- elide
- katrain
- orecchiettetris
- sbapp
- materialshapes
- 01memories
- headless-kivy
- mpf-mc
- ae-kivy
- ae-kivy-user-prefs
- e-drive
- kivy-chess-board
- morphui
- ae-kivy-glsl
- ae-kivy-sideloading
- kivymd2
- kivy-garden-collider
- edm-arch
- shiny-api
- ae-kivy-auto-width
- ae-kivy-dyn-chi
- kivy-garden-xcamera
- kivy-garden-matplotlib
- price-updater
- chess-opening-tool
- meile-gui
- keyboardpaster
- ae-kivy-relief-canvas
- kivy-widgets
- headless-kivy-pi
- e5
- efn
- illuminat
- treadi
- clipcommander
- gamut
- ae-kivy-file-chooser
- carvera-controller-community
- mysc
- kvcheetah
- kivy-garden-zbarcam
- kivy-matplotlib-widget
- mandelbrot-viewer
- cerebrumscanner
- mvc4kivy
- kivy-latex-label
- music-sampler
- kvdeveloper
- carbonkivy
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
February 2, 2011
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
5 days ago
Latest Version
2.3.1
Total Releases
52
Contributors
500
Open PRs
114
Archived
No
Author
Kivy Team and other contributors
Python Versions
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp38
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh