Re: [Tuxpaint-maintainers] Tux Paint 0.9.35 & friends source released

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 09:52:18PM -0400, Terrence Sheflin wrote:
> Thanks to Pere! Without him there would be no Android Store version, his
> help is crucial :)

Absolutely!
 
> Here's the stats on Play Store since release in 2022. The app is averaging
> ~90k total install base, with ~73k MAU. This is a huge audience, very cool!
> [image: image.png]
> 
> I've also attached a CSV file with the same data, if you're interested.

So cool, thanks for sharing!

Some other fun stats, from the SourceForge project:

 * 0.9.35 (all platforms) has been downloaded 8,220 times in the last week
   (~10,900 since release on 2025-05-25)

 * 0.9.34 (all platforms) was downloaded ~302,000 times since the
   beginning of the year

 * Tux Paint in general (any version, any platform) was downloaded
   ~833,850 times in the last 365 days

That's somewhere in the ~2,000/day range.  You can dig around yourself:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxpaint/files/tuxpaint/stats/timeline
(you can use "Change file" to pick subdirectories, like "0.9.35",
or even individual files -- you can also look at Stamps & Config).


Flathub has a graphical chart (no way to actually get the numbers
without hacking some JavaScript, I guess ;-( ), which only goes back
about 6 months, showing installs.  (Click "Statistics" on
https://flathub.org/apps/org.tuxpaint.Tuxpaint)

Tux Paint seems to have 50, +/-25, per day.  So that could be
something in the 18,000 range per year, if we just assume it
averages out to 50/day and multiply that by 365.
(This doesn't say how many people _use_ Tux Paint regularly, or
how long they keep it installed.)

Snapcraft does not seem to provide stats.

Haiku Depot shows "Version Views", which I assume are all-time,
and come out to about 90 for 0.9.35 so far.  I assume that's
webpage views?


I couldn't any download / install / usage stats anywhere else --
OpenBSD sites, Fedora Project, Slackbuilds, OpenSUSE software repo,
Debian and Ubuntu package repos, NetBSD pkgsrc site, or FreeBSD
FreshPorts or Ports Collection sites.  If anyone knows where to
find anything, let me know!


Anyway, as I'm sure we all know, there's a big gap in our knowledge
of how many downloads/installs there have been, since there are so
many places and ways to download and install Tux Paint!

Obviously some of the platforms listed above have more users than
others, and some are more focused on end users (vs servers) than
others.  And then some of the platforms focused on end users
might more frequently used as desktop environments for children
than others.  It's doubtful many will have numbers anywhere as high
as Android, or the SourceForge downloads of Windows builds, so they're
probably more of a "drop in the bucket", by comparison.

On top of that, there are a lot of 3rd party websites that mirror
downloads of free (as in beer) software (shareware, public domain,
and open source / free software).  Most of those sites will be focused
on the two big desktop platforms: Windows and macOS.

I certainly don't know about all of those sites, let alone track any them.
Therefore, I have no clue, for example, how many _more_ downloads of
Tux Paint for Windows there are.  I just know about the gobs of them
we have at SourceForge.  (Most of that traffic is undoubtedly coming
directly from the Tux Paint website.)

Wild, right!?

-bill!