PyRank
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tifffile

Read and write TIFF files.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

tifffile has 25.4M monthly downloads and 659 GitHub stars. Version 2026.6.1 supports Python 3.12+, first published in 2014.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.

It is built on top of numpy. It is used by 978 tracked packages, including scikit-image, dask-image and litdata.

GitHub topics include image, tiff and imagej.

Downloads
Day
842.7K
Week
5.8M
Month
25.4M
Stars
659
Forks
163
Issues
0
Version
2026.6.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
61
Adoption
70
Community
20
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
35 days ago
Monthly downloads
25,398,842
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
25,398,842
Stars
659
Stars per 1k downloads
0.03
• 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
833,819
Month daily avg
846,628
Momentum
-1.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.12
• 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
BSD-3-Clause
• 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
35 days ago
Total releases
168
Releases/year
14.3
• 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
1
Monthly downloads
25,398,842
• 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
30
 
Issue Burden
0.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
0.6%
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

Linux 421.1K
Windows 69.0K
macOS 16.0K

Python Versions

3.12
46.3% 221.6K
3.11
22.7% 108.6K
3.13
13.7% 65.8K
3.10
13.3% 63.6K
3.14
4.1% 19.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
318.2K
2. IN IN
27.5K
3. SG SG
21.1K
4. NL NL
16.1K
5. CN CN
14.3K
6. DE DE
11.9K
7. IE IE
11.2K
8. JP JP
8.8K
9. CA CA
5.8K
10. KR KR
5.4K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
October 11, 2014
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
2026.6.1
Total Releases
168
Contributors
1
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Christoph Gohlke
Python Versions
3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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