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pyinstaller

pyinstaller

Freeze (package) Python programs into stand-alone executables
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pyinstaller has 10.7M monthly downloads and 13K GitHub stars. Version 6.21.0 supports Python <3.16,>=3.8, first published in 2015.

It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of altgraph, importlib-metadata and macholib. It is used by 365 tracked packages, including db-contrib-tool, auto-py-to-exe and karaoke-gen.

GitHub topics include bundle, pyinstaller and python-to-exe.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (pyinstaller/pyinstaller) with 3 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
333.9K
Week
2.4M
Month
10.7M
Stars
13.0K
Forks
2.0K
Issues
273
Version
6.21.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
87
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
10,683,659
• 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
10,683,659
Stars
13,032
Stars per 1k downloads
1.22
• 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
336,242
Month daily avg
356,122
Momentum
-5.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<3.16,>=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
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a license.
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
23 days ago
Total releases
60
Releases/year
5.6
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
432
Monthly downloads
10,683,659
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
90
 
Issue Burden
20.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
65.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
21.4%
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 97.0K
Windows 71.5K
macOS 17.4K

Python Versions

3.12
35.7% 60.3K
3.11
24.6% 41.6K
3.14
16.6% 28.0K
3.13
14.2% 24.0K
3.10
8.8% 14.9K

Top Countries

1. US US
115.6K
2. CN CN
11.7K
3. IE IE
5.9K
4. TW TW
5.8K
5. DE DE
3.9K
6. IN IN
3.8K
7. HK HK
3.8K
8. SG SG
3.1K
9. JP JP
2.9K
10. KR KR
2.4K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Unknown
First Release
October 4, 2015
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
6.21.0
Total Releases
60
Contributors
432
Open PRs
16
Archived
No
Author
Hartmut Goebel, Giovanni Bajo, David Vierra, David Cortesi, Martin Zibricky
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15
Wheels
py3
Keywords
app apps bundle convert executable packaging standalone
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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