Top 8 C Foss Projects

memreduct

30 5,015 7.8 C

Lightweight real-time memory management application to monitor and clean system memory on your computer.

Project mention: Recently during games my cpu goes to 100% and i barely get 30fps on games that used to run at 60fps easily. | /r/nvidia | 2023-07-18

Simply put: Memreduct is an app that cleans up processes and memory to help improve FPS.

InfiniTime

57 2,567 9.0 C

Firmware for Pinetime smartwatch written in C++ and based on FreeRTOS

Project mention: FOSDEM 2024: PineTime Talk | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-24

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
chrlauncher

18 819 8.1 C

Small and very fast portable launcher and updater for Chromium.

Project mention: what browser is most like chrome but without the ram usage?? | /r/browsers | 2023-06-26

It has auto-update thanks to chrlauncher.

fortune-mod

7 376 7.1 C

Implementation of the Unix fortune command for displaying a random quotation, for Linux and other systems.

Project mention: Fortune cookie runs linux | /r/softwaregore | 2023-05-18

Here's the github page

freeshooter

1 169 7.8 C

This is old-school tool for taking screenshots without bloatware features, simple as life, light as air.
rmw

8 73 8.5 C

trashcan/recycle bin utility for the command line
fc-solve

2 57 8.9 C

Freecell Solver - a C library for automatically solving Freecell and some other variants of card Solitaire
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
Gimp_Ringed_Bevel_Plugin

1 0 6.5 C

GEGL makes a ringed bevel effect similar to LayerFX's Bevel and Emboss in modes "inner" and "double Ring".

Project mention: My new Gimp Plugin (Ringed Bevel) is complete and downloads are in comments. Remember binaries go in C:\Users\(USERNAME)\AppData\Local\gegl-0.4\plug-ins or /home/(USERNAME)/.local/share/gegl-0.4/plug-ins NOT the default plugins folder. | /r/GIMP | 2023-10-15

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-02-24.