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ayangweb/BongoCat

AppsRust#bongocat#desktop-app#desktop-pet#linux#macos
Total stars
24,183
Today
+6since 11:02 UTC
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🐱 BongoCat — A cross-platform interactive desktop pet that brings fun to your desktop!

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About the project

A cross-platform desktop app featuring a Live2D cat that reacts to key presses, mouse and gamepad buttons while following your cursor. Runs offline on Windows and macOS and supports custom models.

Useful for
  • Run the cat on your desktop so it reacts to key presses while you type
  • Connect a gamepad and watch the cat react to buttons during gameplay
  • Swap the default model for a custom Live2D model from Awesome-BongoCat

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2.4 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score.

Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 25, 2026, 12:34 UTC.

The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.

Stars per day

04080July 28, 2026October 25, 2026

Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.

Why it’s trending

  • Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-25 (UTC), 11:02–12:27: 24177 → 24183 stars (+6). This is the change over that interval.
  • Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +19 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
  • Over the last two days the pace is 1.7× that of the previous week and a half.
  • GitHub Trending Rust today: #14, +39 stars.

Measured growth: the last 7 completed days

New stars over 7 days: 185. +62% versus the preceding 7 days.

Daily measurements · UTC
October 18, 2026
19
October 19, 2026
20
October 20, 2026
23
October 21, 2026
20
October 22, 2026
16
October 23, 2026
44
October 24, 2026
43

Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 44 · October 23, 2026. Days with data: 30.

Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 25, 2026, 12:34 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →

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Numbers

Total stars
24,183
Today
+6 stars measured 2026-10-25, 11:02–12:27 UTC, ≈ 19 by evening
Forks
1,206
Issues and pull requests
1,164
Watchers
81
Language
Rust
License
Apache-2.0
Latest release
v2.3.1 · October 13, 2026
Created
March 28, 2025
Last push
October 25, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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