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June 23, 2026
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Awesome GitHub Profile README 
A curated list of awesome Github Profile READMEs
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Contents:
Categories
GitHub Actions 🤖
Game Mode 🚀
Code Mode 👨🏽💻
Dynamic Realtime 💫
A Little Bit of Everything 😃
Descriptive 🗒
Simple but Innovative Ones 🤗
Typing.. Mode 🎰
Anime 👾
Minimalistic ✨
GIFS 👻
Just Images 🎭
Badges 🎫
Fancy Fonts 🖋
Icons 🎯
Retro 😎
Tools
Todoist Stats in Readme - Daily Todoist Stats on your Profile Readme
Visitor Badge - Count visitors for your README.md, Issues, PRs in GitHub
1990s style Visitor Counter - Add a 1990s style visitor counter with one line of markdown.
Visitor Count - Count visitors for README.md that can be used with shields.io
Shields Project - Use Shields to create profile badges, compatible with Simple Icons
Github Readme Stats - Get dynamically generated GitHub stats on your readmes
Github Contributor Stats - :fire: Get dynamically generated Github Contributor stats (repositories you really committed) on your readmes
GitHub Streak Stats - 🔥 Stay motivated and show off your contribution streak! 🌟 Display your total contributions, current streak, and longest streak on your GitHub profile README
Simple Icons - SVG icons for popular brands for your README.md files
Laravel GitHub Profile Visit Counter - Add on your Laravel project a quick-badge to count your profile visits.
Dev Metrics in Readme - WakaTime Weekly Metrics on your Profile Readme
Profile Activity Generator - Generate custom profile activity for your profile README
Current UTC time - Example code of server that can serve dynamic content on GitHub profile
Github Activity in README - Updates
README.md with the recent GitHub activity of a userGithub Profile README Generator - This tool provides an easy way to create github profile readme with latest addons like
visitors count, github stats etc.Dynamic Profile Page On Github - Get dynamically generated list of your commits (of the repositories that the action is configured) on GitHub profile readme.
npm package downloads - Show all of your npm packages and their total downloads
All Dev Stats in Readme - Are you an early 🐤 or a night 🦉? When are you most productive during the day? What languages you code in? And other stuff... Let's check out in your readme!
Feedparser - Convenient processing of RSS files
Profile README Widgets - Add simple widgets to your profile readme.
Spotify now playing card generator - Generate your Spotify now playing card for your GitHub profile
Markdown Badges - Add badges to your profile.
Latest Blog Posts and StackOverflow activity in readme - Show your latest blog posts from any sources or StackOverflow activity on your GitHub profile/project readme automatically using the RSS feed using this Github Action
GitHub Readme LinkedIn - Get dynamically generated images from your LinkedIn profile on your GitHub readmes
GitHub Readme Medium - Show your latest Medium article on your readmes!
GitHub Readme StackOverflow - Dynamically generated your StackOverflow profile status on your GitHub readmes!
StackOverflow Stats Badge - Display your stats with this Unique StackOverflow Badge!
Github Profile README Generator - This project allows you to create nice and simple github profile readme files.
Profile Readme Stats - [Github Action] Showcase your github stats on your profile README.md
README Jokes - Random dev jokes in your GitHub README.
GitHub Profile Trophy - 🏆 Add dynamically generated GitHub Trophy on your readme
Github Readme Twitter - Show your latest tweet on your readmes.
Random Dev Memes - Random dev memes to display on your GitHub README.
GitHub Readme Quotes - Dev quotes on your GitHub Profile Readme.
GitHub Profilinator - This tool contains small GUI components that you can hook together to generate markdown for your perfect readme.
PageSpeed score - Generate website's PageSpeed score in animated svg form which can be used in GitHub README
Gitwar Profile Score - Add your Github Profile Score in README.
Header Images for Github Profile READMEs - Generate header images for your GitHub profile READMEs with custom content
YouTube Channel Stats - 📺 Display number of subscribers on YouTube and/or your channel's view count as a badge
Current Book Status from GoodReads - Add a card of the current book you are reading that automatically syncs with GoodReads to display your progress.
Readme Typing SVG - :zap: Dynamically generated, customizable SVG that gives the appearance of typing and deleting text
Articles
"How To Create A GitHub Profile README" - Monica Powell
"How to Stand Out on Github with Profile READMEs" - Jessica Lim
"What's on your GitHub Profile" - Waylon Walker
"3 Ways to Spice up your Github Profile README 🔥" - Jaye Hernandez
"Dynamically Generated Github Stats For Your Profile ReadMe" - Anurag Hazra
"How to create an awesome GIF for your GitHub Profile README" - Satvik Chachra
"Create a special repository in your GitHub Profile 🔨, supported and unsupported features" - Alex Malaszkiewicz
"How I Built A Self-Updating README On My Github Profile" - Michael Hoffmann (Mokkapps)
"Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub" - Simon Willison
"How to create an interactive README for your GitHub profile" - Kavish Hukmani
"什么？Github 居然可以这么玩？" - Tw93
"Getting started with Markdown Badges" - Ileriayo Adebiyi
"Show your latest dev.to posts automatically on your GitHub profile readme" - Gautam krishna R
"Build a Stunning README For Your GitHub Profile" - Martin Heinz
"Static Readme Regeneration" - Aral Roca
"How to Create a Self-Updating README.md for Your GitHub Profile" - Thomas Guibert
"一文玩转github主页" - holic-x
Tutorials
"Create Impressive GitHub Portfolio" - MTECHVIRAL
"How To Create a Github Profile ReadMe" - James Q Quick
"How to create a GitHub profile README" - Code With Confidence
"How To Create A GitHub Profile README" - Program With Erik
"Next Level GitHub Profile README" - codeSTACKr
Contribute
Contributions are always welcome! Please read the contribution guidelines first.
Special Thanks 🙇
Zetao Zhuang for making the amazing site for this repo!
License
To the extent possible under law, Abhishek Naidu has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.