string.is
Online string toolkit for developers.
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Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push Jun 2026.
Comparisons in Miscellaneous: ChatGPT alternatives, DeepL alternatives.
At a glance
string.is quick facts
- Health score
- 27/100 STALE
- Stars
- 307
- Last commit
- 5 months ago (Jun 2026)
- Latest release
- v1.38.0, Apr 2025
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "string.is is an open-source, privacy-friendly toolkit for developers. You can see it in action here."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
string.is scores 27/100, #70 of 77 in Miscellaneous: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v1.38.0, 1.5 years ago) earns 7.3 of 25, 307 stars add 10.0 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 7.3 / 25
v1.38.0 released 1.5 years ago
- Stars 10.0 / 20
307 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 82
- Last 12 months
- 5 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #70 of 77 tools in Miscellaneous by health , between Anchr (#69) and ESMira (#71) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Nodejs |
| Latest release | v1.38.0 · 1.5 years ago |
| Stars | 307 |
| Open issues | 12 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | recurser/string-is ↗ |
string.is vs its top 5 alternatives
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| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| penpot | 99 | 62k | MPL-2.0 | today |
| Reactive Resume | 99 | 45k | MIT | today |
| Anubis | 98 | 24k | MIT | yesterday |
| IT-Tools by sharevb | 93 | 1.8k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Mirumoji | 52 | 45 | MIT | 3 months ago |
| string.is (this tool) | 27 | 307 | AGPL-3.0 | 5 months ago |
string.is: common questions
Is string.is still maintained?
string.is had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 5 months ago; the latest tagged release, v1.38.0, is from 1.5 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.