No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pystray has 1.1M monthly downloads and 565 GitHub stars. Version 0.19.5, first published in 2016.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a copyleft license, last released in Sep 2023.
It is built on top of pillow, pyobjc-framework-quartz and python-xlib. It is used by 193 tracked packages, including serena-agent, gamesentenceminer and claude-jacked.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
57
Adoption
60
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
466 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,118,634
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
1,118,634
Stars
565
Stars per 1k downloads
0.51
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
32,348
Month daily avg
37,288
Momentum
-13.2%
((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
LGPLv3
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
1023 days ago
Total releases
35
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
12
Monthly downloads
1,118,634
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
51
Issue Burden
44.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
17.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
557d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
10.4K
Windows
9.2K
macOS
2.9K
Python Versions
3.12
32.1%
7.1K
3.13
25.2%
5.6K
3.14
20.1%
4.4K
3.11
19.4%
4.3K
3.10
3.2%
717
Top Countries
1.
US
13.8K
US
2.
JP
977
JP
3.
CN
965
CN
4.
DE
806
DE
5.
IN
538
IN
6.
KR
467
KR
7.
BR
343
BR
8.
RU
287
RU
9.
FR
274
FR
10.
HK
269
HK
Dependencies
4
- pillow
- pyobjc-framework-quartz >=7.0
- python-xlib >=0.17
- six
Used By
193
- serena-agent
- gamesentenceminer
- claude-jacked
- simplyprint-bambu-lab
- claude-usage-tracker
- memobot
- shibaclaw
- akita-sentinel
- talks-reducer
- gitcast
- vistk
- swingmusic
- ai-guardian
- yazses
- ajpack
- whisper-key-local
- remarkablesync
- psi-agent
- dictare
- phoneide
- coderfleet
- agenteye-app
- quickpad
- ledfx
- stttype
- chatroom-jianjun
- edger
- abstractassistant
- scribe-cli
- alita-mcp
- fluxcast
- clawd-buddy
- whisper-local
- claude-monitor-usage
- gtk-llm-chat
- voxkage
- carl-control-panel
- grit-cli
- alto-dictation
- ascript
- whisper-to-me
- yaffo
- bard-cli
- cashd
- taskclf
- mcp-anvil
- prodeck-agent
- dev-assistant-client
- aems-agent
- ghost-pc
Package Information
License
LGPLv3
First Release
March 27, 2016
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
0.19.5
Total Releases
35
Contributors
12
Open PRs
15
Archived
No
Author
Moses Palmér
Python Versions
2.7
3.4
Wheels
py2
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh