PyPI Stats
bigcat88

pillow-heif

Python library for working with HEIF images and plugin for Pillow.
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Shared Repository

This package shares its GitHub repository (bigcat88/pillow_heif) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
331.0K
Week
2.0M
Month
7.1M
Stars
297
Forks
21
Issues
4
Version
1.3.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
48
Adoption
90
Community
20
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
31 days ago
Monthly downloads
7,126,644
Active
Activity within 30 days
• Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
7,126,644
Stars
297
Stars per 1k downloads
0.04
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
• Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
284,134
Month daily avg
237,555
Momentum
+19.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
BSD-3-Clause
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
68 days ago
Total releases
55
Releases/year
11.8
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
9
Monthly downloads
7,126,644
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
• Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
44
 
Issue Burden
13.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
70.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
42.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 98.6K
Windows 11.3K
macOS 1.8K

Python Versions

3.12
42.2% 44.7K
3.11
21.2% 22.5K
3.13
16.8% 17.8K
3.10
13.4% 14.2K
3.9
6.4% 6.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
89.3K
2. KR KR
3.0K
3. DE DE
2.5K
4. GB GB
1.8K
5. NL NL
1.7K
6. JP JP
1.6K
7. IE IE
1.3K
8. SG SG
1.2K
9. CA CA
850
10. IN IN
714

Dependencies

1
21 optional dependencies

Used By

133
View all 133 dependents

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
September 12, 2021
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
1.3.0
Total Releases
55
Contributors
9
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Alexander Piskun
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39 pp311 pp37
Keywords
heif heic pillow
Topics
pillow heic heif opencv python3 avif python
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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