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Rust crates · category · data Oct 24, 2026
Images crates by real downloads
crates.io describes this category as: “Crates that process or build images.” Below are the 9 crates in it among the 1000 most-downloaded crates, ranked by real downloads (quiet-day baseline) instead of raw count.
Short answerBy steady daily use, png leads Images with 1,045,922 real downloads a day (widely used and gaining). 2 of the 9 have 1,000+ dependents; 0 have shipped nothing in 2+ years. Release spikes barely matter here: the median crate got 0.0% of its downloads within 2 days of a release.
9 crates
| Compare | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pngWidely used | 1,045,922 | 1,264 | 8mo | +17% | 276M | |
| imageWidely used | 735,113 | 7,367 | 8mo | +11% | 225M | |
| zune-corePulled in | 611,619 | 64 | 3mo | +17% | 138M | |
| zune-jpegEstablished | 602,931 | 117 | 5d | +13% | 140M | |
| moxcmsPulled in | 593,585 | 51 | 39d | +21% | 108M | |
| tiffEstablished | 461,469 | 134 | 8mo | +10% | 140M | |
| color_quantPulled in | 453,755 | 47 | 6mo | +12% | 147M | |
| image-webpPulled in | 403,308 | 64 | 14mo | +17% | 93.9M | |
| rgbEstablished | 392,903 | 349 | 8mo | -2% | 136M |
Click a column to sort; press + to add a crate to a comparison. Real / day = median downloads on days with no release that day or the day before. Each crate's page shows its verdict and the 4 rules behind it. Why this method · this category on crates.io
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