# robbietilton/Compositor

> A free, open-source raster image editor for macOS written in Swift — a Photoshop alternative focused on compositing and post-processing.

- Magnitude: 2.6 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 18,377 total · +37 stars measured 2026-11-02, 00:10–19:59 UTC, ≈ 44 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Swift · License: MIT · Created: 2026-09-16 · Last push: 2026-11-02
- GitHub: https://github.com/robbietilton/Compositor · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/robbietilton/Compositor

## Useful for

- Build the editor from the Xcode project and modify features for your own workflow
- Composite an image from multiple layers with masks, blend modes and adjustment layers
- Cut out an object with Remove Background or Content-Aware Fill and export the result as JPEG

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-02 (UTC), 00:10–19:59: 18340 → 18377 stars (+37). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +44 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 47 days old and already has 18,377 stars.
- Top new repositories in the last 4 months: #26.
- About 11 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## 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: 1,827
- Issues and pull requests: 325
- Watchers: 83
- Average over the last week: 62 per day
- Usual pace: 249 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: v1.6.0 (2026-11-02)

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

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: 271, 795, 1442, 2086, 1918, 1122, 521, 467, 450, 290, 181, 147, 112, 111, 88, 95, 104, 99, 68, 73, 49, 74, 90, 111, 54, 51, 46, 68, 61, 37

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

10-20 2.6, 10-21 2.8, 10-22 2.7, 10-23 2.5, 10-24 2.6, 10-25 2.4, 10-26 2.7, 10-27 3.2, 10-28 3.1, 10-29 2.6, 10-30 2.5, 10-31 2.5, 11-01 2.8, 11-02 2.6

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories in the last 4 months: #26

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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 2026-11-02 20:10 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.