# microsoft/winget-cli

> WinGet is the Windows Package Manager: a CLI, PowerShell module and COM API for discovering, installing and updating apps from the Microsoft Store and the winget community repository.

- Magnitude: 1.1 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 26,453 total · +1 star today, ≈ 3 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: C++ · License: MIT · Created: 2019-07-16 · Last push: 2026-09-24
- GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli · Homepage: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/package-manager/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/microsoft/winget-cli

## Useful for

- Install an app with a single winget install command instead of downloading an installer manually
- Update all installed packages via Update-WinGetPackage in PowerShell
- Set up a private REST source for internal company packages

## Why it’s here

- 1 star so far today, about 3 expected by the end of the day.
- GitHub Trending C++ today: #13, +5 stars.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1,801
- Issues and pull requests: 5,478
- Watchers: 340
- Average over the last week: 5 per day
- Usual pace: 4 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v1.29.380 (2026-09-21)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-08-27 … 2026-09-25: 7, 7, 8, 1, 4, 5, 7, 3, 3, 1, 2, 11, 4, 7, 9, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 2, 3, 4, 9, 5, 4, 5, 2, 7, 1

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending C++ today: #13, +5 stars

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-25 13:57 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.