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openstenoproject

plover

Open source stenotype engine
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Monthly downloads
16.0K
Weekly downloads
3.4K
GitHub stars
2.6K

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
5.4.2
Requires Python
>=3.10
Licence
GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+)
Last Release
5 days ago
Author
Joshua Harlan Lifton
First Release
December 28, 2011
Total Releases
31
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
72
Adoption
52
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
26 days ago
Monthly downloads
16,013
• 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
16,013
Stars
2,595
Stars per 1k downloads
162.06
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
485
Month daily avg
534
Momentum
-9.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
• Legacy
Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+)
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
4 days ago
Total releases
31
Releases/year
2.1
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
76
Monthly downloads
16,013
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
82
 
Issue Burden
46.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
43.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
24.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 27

Python Versions

3.7
34.6% 9
3.10
26.9% 7
3.12
15.4% 4
3.11
11.5% 3
3.14
11.5% 3

Top Countries

1. US US
435
2. SG SG
11
3. CN CN
3
4. IE IE
3

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

22
1 optional dependencies

Used By

79
View all 79 dependents

Repository details

Forks
307
Issues
120
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Contributors
76
Open PRs
7
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
plover
Sources and methodology