# GitOwl - Open Source Insights At a Glance

> GitOwl provides a sidebar with contextual insights to help you navigate the world of open source.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/gitowl](https://chrome-stats.com/d/gitowl)

## Overview

- **ID:** `gitowl`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** David
- **Category:** web-development,search-tools
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 0.2.5
- **Last updated:** 2024-10-22
- **First published:** 2024-09-17
- **Size:** 30 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/gitowl/)
- **Website:** [https://gitowl.dev](https://gitowl.dev/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/gitowl/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/gitowl/privacy/)

## Description

GitOwl provides a sidebar with contextual insights to help you navigate the world of open source.

Discover similar repositories.
- Similarity search using AI embeddings.
- Find similar repositories across all GitHub repositories with over 1000 stars.
- Limit the search using filters.

Clear overview of repository activity.
- Quickly identify top issues (instantly filter by reactions, comments, recency).
- See a graph of recent commits.
- Visualise pull request activity.

Breakdown of user activity.
- Aggregated contributions across repositories.
- View details for any recent pull request or issue contribution.
- Glance at latest stars.

GitOwl works on:
- GitHub - <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/65c4cebea7fee60bd495113a70a7dfa8c284bcc6c4bf151f3c6672d47e093128/https%3A//github.com/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/</a>
- npmjs - <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/d00a28a90f846389cf977cbad642866eaec5a8ed9dd2b74d055877ff72b2a0dc/https%3A//www.npmjs.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.npmjs.com/</a>
- PyPI - <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/0a0250ac03fdf5340a6b754635ae702a2a9f6151ec2254205df8ea8b9c3f7b8a/https%3A//pypi.org/" rel="nofollow">https://pypi.org/</a>

Privacy
- GitOwl does not collect any private GitHub data.
- Extension only uses the name of repository/user to provide insights.
- Extension does not store or collect any other data from the webpages you visit.

GitOwl extension is Open Source, source code can be found at: <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/889554eb4138725b5f9e95724281aa6eb04414dddd8c3970e8c4aaf485ca093b/https%3A//github.com/dhilman/gitowl-extension" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dhilman/gitowl-extension</a>

## Rankings

- #114,116 — Overall
- #151 — source
- #164 — source code

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `github.com`
- `www.npmjs.com`
- `pypi.org`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: github.com, npmjs.com, pypi.org
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

> Some risk analysis details are omitted from this free response. [Upgrade to view the full analysis](https://chrome-stats.com/pricing).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/gitowl)