Awesome GitHub Profile README

A curated list of awesome Github Profile READMEs

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Contents:

• Categories
  • GitHub Actions 🤖
  • Game Mode 🚀
  • Code Mode 👨🏽‍💻
  • Dynamic Realtime 💫
  • A Little Bit of Everything 😃
  • Descriptive 🗒
  • Simple but Innovative Ones 🤗
  • Typing.. Mode 🎰
  • Anime 👾
  • Minimalistic ✨
  • GIFS 👻
  • Just Images 🎭
  • Badges 🎫
  • Fancy Fonts 🖋
  • Icons 🎯
  • Retro 😎
• Tools
• Articles
• Video Tutorials
• Contribute
• License

Categories

GitHub Actions 🤖

• Abhishek Naidu
• Thomas Guibert
• Brian Douglas
• Shawn Wang
• Simon Willison
• Mike Coutermarsh
• Michael Hoffmann (Mokkapps)
• Athul Cyriac Ajay
• Gautam Krishna R
• Roald Nefs
• Leo
• Dhruv Jain
• Erwin Lejeune
• Jessica Lim
• 侑夕-Tw93
• liununu
• Filippo Rossi (qu4k)
• Moe Poi ~
• Elon Tang (blackcater)
• Stanley Lim (Spiderpig86)
• Akshit Garg (gargakshit)
• Yufan You
• Danny Koppenhagen
• Vidya Bhandary
• Rao Hai
• Jatin Rao
• teoxoy
• Aral Roca
• codeSTACKr
• itgoyo
• lifeparticle

Game Mode 🚀

• Tim Burgan
• Ben Sampica
• Kavish Hukmani
• Jonathan Gin
• Ross Williams
• kylepls
• Aaron Liu
• marcizhu

Code Mode 👨🏽‍💻

• Thaiane Braga
• Ash Baker
• Anmol Singh
• Kiho
• Ahmad Munir
• Marton
• Redowan Delowar
• Zhenye Na

Dynamic Realtime 💫

• Anurag Hazra
• DenverCoder1
• Hemant Joshi
• Kittinan
• Andrew Novac
• Johnny Villegas
• Andrew Young
• Rashmi Jadhav
• andyruwruw
• Jacob Colvin
• Osman Durdağ
• iampavangandhi
• Dani Akash
• Rahul Jha
• Taehyun Hwang
• Nisarg Bhatt

A Little Bit of Everything 😃

• Raymond Li
• Martin Heinz
• Adam Alston
• Rafnix Guzmán
• Aditya Pal
• Hedy Li
• Xunzhuo
• Khaleel Gibran
• Apoorv Tyagi
• CxyFreedom
• Miller Camilo Vega
• Abhishek Maira
• Clayton Hamilton
• Sy Rashid
• Quin Knight
• Jackyu-1999
• Rak Laptudirm
• Trini B
• holic-x
• Magrelaio

Descriptive 🗒

• Filip Troníček
• Garima Singh
• lizheming
• Nguyễn Hoàng Dương
• Saksham Taneja
• TheAbbie
• Keshav Singh
• Vidur Satija
• Dani El-Ayyass
• Nanra Sukedy

Simple but Innovative Ones 🤗

• Nate Moore
• Jhey Tompkins
• Waylon Walker
• Vansh Kapoor
• Harsh Kumar Khatri
• Stephen Ajulu
• Haany Ali
• Anurag Singh
• Rishit Dagli
• Vinit Shahdeo
• Fatih Kadir Akın
• Lucas Vazquez
• 小弟调调™
• Johnny Villegas
• 一缕殇流化隐半边冰霜
• Srihari Kapu
• vaaski
• Arturs Smirnovs
• Yash Sahijwani
• Hemanth Kollipara
• Tushar Mittal
• Onimur
• Bruno Tacca
• Matthew Taylor
• Ali Hamza

Typing.. Mode 🎰

• Mathieu Ledru
• CyrisXD
• Mpho Mphego
• Abhinav Sharma
• Mason Slover
• SuperSupeng

Anime 👾

• Ing
• edisonlee55
• Ashutosh
• Yukii

Minimalistic ✨

• Caneco
• Gift Egwuenu
• Kelechi Precious Nwachukwu
• Ghazi Khan
• Pratik Kumar
• Dennis Hartrampf
• MrStanDu33
• Jayraj Roshan
• ridermansb
• Maximous Black
• Alex Martin
• ChungZH
• Orhun
• Aveek Saha
• Zheeeng
• TallGuyJenks
• Stefanie Grunwald
• Abdul Khaliq
• Bilivro

GIFS 👻

• Pouya Saadeghi
• Ari
• Siv Ram Shastri
• Shanu Mishra
• Shubham Kumar
• Duncan
• Demartini
• Sindre Sorhus
• Pranjal Bhardwaj
• Okan Koçyiğit
• Raghav Khullar
• xrkffgg
• Kevin Cui
• Muskan Rani
• Rishav Anand
• KelviNosse
• nilfalse
• Shahriar Shafin
• Somnath Paul
• Ksenia Morozova

Just Images 🎭

• Zack Krida
• 偏右
• thewhiteh4t
• Akash Rai
• Oussama Bouchikhi
• Daily Random Photo

Badges 🎫

• Harish Kumar S S
• Anirudh Emmadi
• Brendon Smith
• Alwin Wang
• Moshfiq Rony
• Ileriayo Adebiyi
• Samujjwaal Dey
• Char-Al
• Oka
• Nikita Rusetskii
• Raphael Ebner

Fancy Fonts 🖋

• xiaoluoboding

Icons 🎯

• Yuan Tang
• Hussainweb
• Peter Han
• Thomas George Thomas
• Derek Nguyen
• Valentin Briand

Retro 😎

• Livio Brunner
• Christian Petersen

Tools

• Git Bonsai - Grow a unique, deterministic pixel-art bonsai from your GitHub history - animated GIF for your README that keeps growing as you commit 🌳
• Todoist Stats in Readme - Daily Todoist Stats on your Profile Readme
• Visitor Badge - Count visitors for your README.md, Issues, PRs in GitHub
• 1990s style Visitor Counter - Add a 1990s style visitor counter with one line of markdown.
• Visitor Count - Count visitors for README.md that can be used with shields.io
• Shields Project - Use Shields to create profile badges, compatible with Simple Icons
• GitCard Studio - Dynamic SVG cards generator & live API for GitHub stats, language distribution, commit habits matrix, contribution streak, developer rank, trophies, and sponsors. (Web Generator)
• Github Readme Stats - Get dynamically generated GitHub stats on your readmes
• GitHub Stats - 🚀 A lightning-fast, highly aesthetic SVG statistics generator with True Glassmorphism design and themes
• Github Readme Insight Terminal Ascii - Generate terminal-style contribution graph, stats, and top languages SVGs for your GitHub profile README
• Github Contributor Stats - 🔥 Get dynamically generated Github Contributor stats (repositories you really committed) on your readmes
• GitHub Gravity - 🌌 Make your GitHub contribution graph fall under gravity, colliding with custom text to produce a beautiful animated SVG
• GitHub Streak Stats - 🔥 Stay motivated and show off your contribution streak! 🌟 Display your total contributions, current streak, and longest streak on your GitHub profile README
• gitglance - Self-hostable GitHub stats cards with 16 visual styles, 21 themes, chart cards (donut, gauges, commit activity) and a visual card builder
• Simple Icons - SVG icons for popular brands for your README.md files
• Laravel GitHub Profile Visit Counter - Add on your Laravel project a quick-badge to count your profile visits.
• Dev Metrics in Readme - WakaTime Weekly Metrics on your Profile Readme
• Profile Activity Generator - Generate custom profile activity for your profile README
• Current UTC time - Example code of server that can serve dynamic content on GitHub profile
• Github Activity in README - Updates README.md with the recent GitHub activity of a user
• Github Profile README Generator - This tool provides an easy way to create github profile readme with latest addons like visitors count, github stats etc.
• Dynamic Profile Page On Github - Get dynamically generated list of your commits (of the repositories that the action is configured) on GitHub profile readme.
• npm package downloads - Show all of your npm packages and their total downloads
• All Dev Stats in Readme - Are you an early 🐤 or a night 🦉? When are you most productive during the day? What languages you code in? And other stuff... Let's check out in your readme!
• Feedparser - Convenient processing of RSS files
• Profile README Widgets - Add simple widgets to your profile readme.
• Spotify now playing card generator - Generate your Spotify now playing card for your GitHub profile
• Markdown Badges - Add badges to your profile.
• Latest Blog Posts and StackOverflow activity in readme - Show your latest blog posts from any sources or StackOverflow activity on your GitHub profile/project readme automatically using the RSS feed using this Github Action
• GitHub Readme LinkedIn - Get dynamically generated images from your LinkedIn profile on your GitHub readmes
• GitHub Readme Medium - Show your latest Medium article on your readmes!
• GitHub Readme StackOverflow - Dynamically generated your StackOverflow profile status on your GitHub readmes!
• StackOverflow Stats Badge - Display your stats with this Unique StackOverflow Badge!
• Github Profile README Generator - This project allows you to create nice and simple github profile readme files.
• Profile Readme Stats - [Github Action] Showcase your github stats on your profile README.md
• README Jokes - Random dev jokes in your GitHub README.
• GitHub Profile Trophy - 🏆 Add dynamically generated GitHub Trophy on your readme
• Github Readme Twitter - Show your latest tweet on your readmes.
• Random Dev Memes - Random dev memes to display on your GitHub README.
• GitHub Readme Quotes - Dev quotes on your GitHub Profile Readme.
• GitHub Profilinator - This tool contains small GUI components that you can hook together to generate markdown for your perfect readme.
• PageSpeed score - Generate website's PageSpeed score in animated svg form which can be used in GitHub README
• Gitwar Profile Score - Add your Github Profile Score in README.
• Header Images for Github Profile READMEs - Generate header images for your GitHub profile READMEs with custom content
• YouTube Channel Stats - 📺 Display number of subscribers on YouTube and/or your channel's view count as a badge
• Current Book Status from GoodReads - Add a card of the current book you are reading that automatically syncs with GoodReads to display your progress.
• Readme Typing SVG - ⚡ Dynamically generated, customizable SVG that gives the appearance of typing and deleting text
• Snake and Commits - 🐍 Turn your contribution graph into a real, self-playing game of Snake. Pathfinding AI, self-collision avoidance, grows as it eats. Pure animated SVG, zero dependencies, drop-in Action.
• GitHub Profile Stats - Free, real-time GitHub stat cards, language charts, mini badges & activity sparklines for your README. No token, no setup - just paste one line. Live demo
• github-candles - Render your GitHub contributions as a self-updating trading candlestick chart.
• Daily Badge - A new quirky "on this day" message on your profile every day, in your timezone. One URL, no fork needed.
• Dither Portrait - Turn a photo into an animated dithered SVG for your profile README, with a browser playground to preview it
• GitHub Readme Zodiac - Zodiac-themed SVG profile cards and pinned Gists from your GitHub activity.
• GitHub Readme Chinese Zodiac - Asian zodiac (十二生肖) SVG profile cards and pinned Gists from your GitHub activity.
• vinilo - Your recently played Spotify tracks as a static SVG, built in your own GitHub Actions and committed to your own branch, so no third-party service holds your token
• Github Pet - Animated pixel cat for your GitHub profile README that reacts to real activity (CI failures, streaks, releases) - zero-dependency animated SVGs via a GitHub Action.

Articles

• "How To Create A GitHub Profile README" - Monica Powell
• "How to Stand Out on Github with Profile READMEs" - Jessica Lim
• "What's on your GitHub Profile" - Waylon Walker
• "3 Ways to Spice up your Github Profile README 🔥" - Jaye Hernandez
• "Dynamically Generated Github Stats For Your Profile ReadMe" - Anurag Hazra
• "How to create an awesome GIF for your GitHub Profile README" - Satvik Chachra
• "Create a special repository in your GitHub Profile 🔨, supported and unsupported features" - Alex Malaszkiewicz
• "How to create a Github Profile README with Dynamic Github Stats" - Ghazi Khan
• "How I Built A Self-Updating README On My Github Profile" - Michael Hoffmann (Mokkapps)
• "Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub" - Simon Willison
• "How to create an interactive README for your GitHub profile" - Kavish Hukmani
• "什么？Github 居然可以这么玩？" - Tw93
• "Getting started with Markdown Badges" - Ileriayo Adebiyi
• "Show your latest dev.to posts automatically on your GitHub profile readme" - Gautam krishna R
• "How I Built A Self-Updating README by Webhooks and Netlify Functions" - Rao Hai
• "Build a Stunning README For Your GitHub Profile" - Martin Heinz
• "How I added my Spotify statistics to my GitHub readme 📜" - Akshit Garg
• "Static Readme Regeneration" - Aral Roca
• "How to Create a Self-Updating README.md for Your GitHub Profile" - Thomas Guibert
• "一文玩转github主页" - holic-x

Tutorials

• "Create Impressive GitHub Portfolio" - MTECHVIRAL
• "How To Create a Github Profile ReadMe" - James Q Quick
• "How to create a GitHub profile README" - Code With Confidence
• "How To Create A GitHub Profile README" - Program With Erik
• "Next Level GitHub Profile README" - codeSTACKr

Contribute

Contributions are always welcome! Please read the contribution guidelines first.

Special Thanks 🙇

• Zetao Zhuang for making the amazing site for this repo!

License

To the extent possible under law, Abhishek Naidu has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.