revealjs
Framework for easily creating beautiful presentations using HTML.
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Still maintained? Yes: 11 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 6.0.2 (Sep 2026).
Comparisons in Miscellaneous: ChatGPT alternatives, DeepL alternatives.
At a glance
revealjs quick facts
- Health score
- 67/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 72,495
- Last commit
- 1 month ago (Sep 2026)
- Latest release
- 6.0.2, Sep 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "reveal.js is an open source HTML presentation framework. It enables anyone with a web browser to create beautiful presentations for free. Check out the live demo at revealjs.com."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
revealjs scores 67/100, #54 of 77 in Miscellaneous: 11 commits in the last 90 days earn 12.8 of 35 points, the latest release (6.0.2, 2 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 72,495 stars add 19.4 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 22.2 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 12.8 / 35
11 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
6.0.2 released 2 months ago
- Stars 19.4 / 20
72k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 11
- Last 90 days
- 108
- Last 12 months
- 1 month ago
- Last push
Ranked #54 of 77 tools in Miscellaneous by health , between ClipCascade (#53) and F-Droid (#55) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Javascript |
| Latest release | 6.0.2 · 2 months ago |
| Stars | 72,495 |
| Open issues | 813 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | hakimel/reveal.js ↗ |
revealjs vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with revealjs (Miscellaneous), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| penpot | 99 | 62k | MPL-2.0 | today |
| Reactive Resume | 99 | 45k | MIT | today |
| CyberChef | 88 | 36k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Digisteps | 71 | 1 | AGPL-3.0 | 10 days ago |
| revealjs (this tool) | 67 | 72k | MIT | 1 month ago |
| Digiwords | 65 | 1 | AGPL-3.0 | 17 days ago |
revealjs: common questions
Is revealjs still maintained?
revealjs had 11 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 1 month ago; the latest tagged release, 6.0.2, is from 2 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.