Updated August 2026
    Slowing down
    72k

    revealjs: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    Framework for easily creating beautiful presentations using HTML.

    TL;DR • revealjs • as of August 2026

    revealjs is an open-source miscellaneous project, with 72k GitHub stars and a health score of 47/100. It committed 105 times in the last twelve months across 8 of those months, and its status is slowing down. Licence: MIT. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.

    72k
    GitHub stars
    47/100
    Health score
    105
    Commits (12 mo)
    8/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Slowing down — Commits have thinned out over the last year.
    Last commit 2026-05-21
    Days since last commit 88
    Commits, last 3 months 0
    Commits, last 12 months 105
    Months with activity 8 of 12
    Last release 2026-04-11
    Archived No
    Licence MIT
    Category Miscellaneous

    Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.

    What the licence lets you do

    MIT

    Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.

    This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.

    What revealjs means for your idea

    Crowded · 81/100
    Miscellaneous category →

    revealjs is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.

    Assume every prospect can find a free version in five minutes. Your wedge has to be something open source structurally cannot deliver: compliance, support SLAs, managed hosting at scale, or a workflow the maintainers refuse to build.

    revealjs: common questions

    Is revealjs still maintained in 2026?

    Slowing down. revealjs recorded 105 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 8 of those months and 0 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-05-21. Last release: 2026-04-11. Commits have thinned out over the last year.

    Can I use revealjs commercially?

    revealjs is published under MIT. Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.

    How crowded is the Miscellaneous category?

    76 open-source implementations, 40 of them actively maintained, led by revealjs at 72k stars. Saturation score 81/100 — Crowded. Free, maintained alternatives already dominate this category.

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