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pyobjc-framework-quartz

The Python <-> Objective-C Bridge with bindings for macOS frameworks
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pyobjc-framework-quartz has 2.5M monthly downloads and 794 GitHub stars. Version 12.2.1 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2009.

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

It is built on top of pyobjc-core and pyobjc-framework-cocoa. It is used by 180 tracked packages, including pynput, pywebview and pystray.

GitHub topics include objective-c and macos.

Downloads
Day
98.3K
Week
603.9K
Month
2.5M
Stars
794
Forks
65
Issues
80
Version
12.2.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
58
Adoption
80
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
18 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,521,334
• 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
2,521,334
Stars
794
Stars per 1k downloads
0.31
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
86,270
Month daily avg
84,044
Momentum
+2.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
18 days ago
Total releases
67
Releases/year
3.9
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
29
Monthly downloads
2,521,334
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
43
 
Issue Burden
100.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
44.6%
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

macOS 25.0K
Linux 16.1K
Windows 823

Python Versions

3.12
43.8% 17.2K
3.13
20.9% 8.2K
3.14
13.4% 5.3K
3.11
13.1% 5.1K
3.9
8.8% 3.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
23.5K
2. SG SG
4.2K
3. PL PL
2.7K
4. CN CN
1.3K
5. JP JP
1.3K
6. IN IN
858
7. DE DE
842
8. KR KR
691
9. GB GB
563
10. HK HK
488
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
March 8, 2009
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
12.2.1
Total Releases
67
Contributors
29
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
Ronald Oussoren
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp315 cp34 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39
Keywords
PyObjC Quartz Quartz.CoreGraphics Quartz.CoreVideo Quartz.ImageIO Quartz.ImageKit Quartz.PDFKit Quartz.QuartzComposer Quartz.QuartzCore Quartz.QuartzFilters Quartz.QuickLookUI
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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