# Eight million downloads in six months By Steven Van · 2026-10-05 Six months after its first commit, the open-source codebase mapper averages about 44,000 PyPI downloads a day and has nearly 12,000 forks. Graphify passed 8 million PyPI downloads six months to the day after its first commit on 5 April, and its repository has been forked nearly 12,000 times. The team puts the average at about 44,000 downloads a day since the start. ## Why downloads, not stars Founder Safi Shamsi says the team watches downloads more closely than stars. In the announcement's words, a star is a bookmark, while a download is someone running [Graphify]() on their own code, in CI, in a dev container or on a laptop. The team wrote about crossing 100,000 GitHub stars in August, and describes the download count as the number underneath that one. ## What the tool does The vendor says nothing about how the tool works has changed. Typing /graphify in an assistant returns a map of the codebase in about thirty seconds. Parsing runs on the user's machine with tree-sitter, every edge is tagged EXTRACTED or INFERRED, and nothing is sent anywhere. The open-source engine stays open source. ## Graphify Cloud The post also notes that Graphify Cloud is live at app.graphify.com. It is the always-on version, which keeps code, docs and meetings mapped in the background and queryable from anywhere. Details are in the [original announcement](). [![]()]() ![Graphify]() Graphify Turn a codebase into a knowledge graph your AI assistant can trace — answers come back as graph paths with real file:line citations. [View Graphify →]() Sources [Original source]() [Read Eight million downloads in six months on Creators Toolbox]() --- Canonical source: https://creatorstoolbox.com/blog/graphify-eight-million-downloads-in-six-months