# ImageMagick/ImageMagick

ImageMagick is a free, open-source software suite for creating, editing, converting, and displaying images. It supports 200+ formats and offers powerful command-line tools and APIs for automation, scripting, and integration across platforms.

Repository: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/imagemagick
Homepage: https://imagemagick.org
Language: C
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: imagemagick, image-conversion, image-manipulation, image-processing, open-source-software, command-line-image-tool, digital-image-editing, mastering-digital-image-alchemy
Last push: 2026-08-25T11:16:51+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 99/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4126, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 10, "gap_med": 13, "n_releases_24m": 36}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 17232, forks 1644 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:17.884261+00:00)

## What it is
ImageMagick is a free, open-source software suite written in C for creating, editing, composing, and converting bitmap images, supporting over 200 formats including JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and PDF. It provides powerful command-line tools (magick, convert) plus APIs for integration, with support for scripting, automation, animation, and color management.

## Use cases
- convert images between jpeg png gif tiff and pdf formats
- batch resize hundreds of images from the command line
- add watermarks or borders to photos automatically
- create gif animations from a sequence of frames
- apply artistic effects like charcoal sketch or oil painting to images
- script automated image processing pipelines for a website
- crop rotate and compose images in a shell script
- detect edges in images for computer vision preprocessing

## When to choose
- you need a battle-tested tool supporting 200+ image formats
- you want to automate image processing via CLI or scripting
- you need a C library to embed image manipulation into applications
- you process large volumes of images in batch pipelines

## When to avoid
- you need a modern GUI-based photo editor with interactive tools
- you only work with vector graphics like SVG editing
- you want GPU-accelerated real-time image editing
- you need a simple lightweight thumbnailer with minimal dependencies

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: stable
- function: image-processing, cli, graphics, sdk
- domain: image-processing, graphics, developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: windows, cross-platform, cli
- tags: image-conversion, image-manipulation, batch-processing, bitmap-graphics, format-conversion, scripting, c-library, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- ImageMagick/ImageMagick (main) score 99

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:17.884261+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:03:27.046571+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:17.884261+00:00, sha 2d0ad97843cf)
  - homepage: https://imagemagick.org (fetched 2026-08-29T08:01:20.452128+00:00, sha 30210c607b3c)
  - site_page: https://usage.imagemagick.org/transform (fetched 2026-08-29T08:01:20.461859+00:00, sha b2412053d311)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.