Beautiful GitHub Profile Readme

There are different ways to make your GitHub profile more beautiful. You can add badges, icons, stats, etc. to your GitHub profile readme. In this article, I will show you how to do that.

You can use these awesome generators to automatically generate your GitHub profile readme if you can’t be bothered to do it yourself. check the Profile Generator Section below.

If you want to do it manually, you can follow the steps below.

Badges

shields.io

Concise, consistent, and legible badges in SVG and raster format and Make tokens with custom values

![](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/yousseflasheen?style=for-the-badge)

Also check out here, here, or here for more shield.io badges examples.

Stackoverflow

Display your stats with this unique StackOverflow Badge

<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/10240634/youssef-lasheen"><img src="https://stackoverflow.com/users/flair/10240634.png" width="208" height="58"></a>

YouTube Stats

Youtube stats badges for your GitHub profile README. Displays the total number of subscribers or the view count for your channel.

This one requires an API key from Google Cloud Platform. You can get one here

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/[YOUR CHANNEL ID]">
 <img src="https://github-readme-youtube-stats.herokuapp.com/subscribers/index.php?id=[YOUR CHANNEL ID]&key=[YOUR API KEY]"/>
</a>

Readme Views Counter

It counts how many times your GitHub profile has been viewed. Free cloud micro-service.

![](https://komarev.com/ghpvc/?username=yousseflasheen)

![](https://gpvc.arturio.dev/yousseflasheen)

![](https://visitor-badge.glitch.me/badge?page_id=yousseflasheen)

Package Versions

pepy

[![Downloads](https://pepy.tech/badge/django-audio-validator)](https://pepy.tech/project/django-audio-validator)

Fury

Once the package owner adds this badge to their README file, it will inform and link all visitors to the latest version of that package.

[![PyPI version](https://badge.fury.io/py/django-audio-validator.svg)](https://badge.fury.io/py/django-audio-validator)

hits

📈 Hit Counter for Your GitHub or Any Kind of Websites You Want.

📍 For example :

[![Hits](https://hits.sh/github.com/rzashakeri/beautify-github-profile.svg)](https://hits.sh/github.com/rzashakeri/beautify-github-profile/)

Widgets

Todoist Readme

Updates README with Todoist Stats of a user

github readme stats

Dynamically generated stats for your GitHub readmes

Anurag’s GitHub stats

![Anurag's GitHub stats](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api?username=anuraghazra&show_icons=true&theme=transparent)

GitHub Readme Streak Stats

Stay motivated and show off your contribution streak! 🌟 Display your total contributions, current streak, and longest streak on your GitHub profile README

[![GitHub Streak](https://streak-stats.demolab.com/?user=DenverCoder1&theme=dark)](https://git.io/streak-stats)

waka readme

Wakatime Weekly Metrics on your Profile Readme. This one requires an API key from Wakatime. You can get one here

[![wakatime](https://wakatime.com/badge/user/8e8b5b0c-8b1a-4b0e-9c1c-8c8c2c5c2c5c.svg)](https://wakatime.com/@8e8b5b0c-8b1a-4b0e-9c1c-8c8c2c5c2c5c)

Github Activity Readme

Updates README with the recent GitHub activity of a user

Spotify GitHub Profile

Show your Spotify playing on your GitHub profile

Readme Jokes

😄 Jokes for your GitHub READMEs Jokes Card

![Jokes Card](https://readme-jokes.vercel.app/api)

Github Profile Trophy

Add dynamically generated GitHub Stat Trophies on your readme

[![trophy](https://github-profile-trophy.vercel.app/?username=ryo-ma&theme=onedark)](https://github.com/ryo-ma/github-profile-trophy)

GitHub Readme Twitter

Add Twitter to your GitHub readme

[![github-readme-twitter](https://github-readme-twitter.gazf.vercel.app/api?id=gazff)](https://github.com/gazf/github-readme-twitter)

Random Memer

Returns random meme images scraped from Memedroid

REHeader

Generate beautiful header images for your GitHub profile READMEs.

Goodreads Readme

This project provides a badge for sharing your current book in your GitHub profile.

Readme Typing svg

Dynamically generated, customizable SVG that gives the appearance of typing and deleting text. Typing SVGs can be used as a bio on your GitHub profile readme or repository.

Awesome GitHub Profile Readme Templates

This repository contains the best profile readme’s for your reference.

Github Profile Summary Cards

A tool to generate your GitHub summary card for profile README

Generate Snake Game From GitHub Contribution Grid

Generates a snake game from a GitHub user contributions graph

Github Stats Transparent

Automatically generate summary GitHub statistics images for your profile using Actions, no server required

Github Profile Name Writer

Write your name using the GitHub commits and make your profile awesome

Github Profile Languages

Create a nice pie chart with the user’s programming languages from their GitHub profile.

Github Profile 3d Contrib

This GitHub Action creates a GitHub contribution calendar on a 3D profile image.

Github Profile Header Generator

A header image generator for your GitHub profile Readme

metrics

An infographics generator with 30+ plugins and 200+ options to display stats about your GitHub account and render them as SVG, Markdown, PDF or JSON!

Action Devcard

GitHub Action to download the devcard from https://daily.dev

Pimp My Readme

Pimp my README is an open source profile builder that you can use to add some cool components to your README profile - Made with <3 by webapp.io :)

GitHub Contribution Chart Generator

Generate an image of all your GitHub contributions

Wrapped

GitHub Wrapped, inspired by Spotify Wrapped

GitHub Spray

Draw on your GitHub contribution graph ░▒▓█

Github Trends

Level up your GitHub profile readme with customizable cards including LOC statistics!

Github Readme Quotes

Dynamic quote generator for your GitHub readmes | Give a poetic touch to readmes

Spotify Recently Played Readme

Display your recently played Spotify tracks on your GitHub profile README.

Github Readme Info

This GitHub action helps to add cool Stats to your GitHub profile README.

Github Readme Medium Recent Article

Add Your Recently Published Medium Articles to Your GitHub Readme

Github Widgetbox

Beautiful, dynamic widgets for GitHub Readme pages. (Statistics, Skills, etc.)

lastfm Recently Played Readme

Display your recent Last.fm scrobbles on your GitHub profile README.

Github Stats Terminal Style

Generate :octocat: Stats as like Terminal Interface with typing effects dynamically for your profile Readme

leetcode Stats

Dynamically generated LeetCode stats for your GitHub READMEs!

Quote Readme

A GitHub Action that allows you to place a random quote/fun-fact on your README file, from a collection of famous computer science quotes/facts !

Readme Ascii

Turns text into images of ASCII art for GitHub README files.

Cool Readme profile items

Some cool ideas for your readme profile, enjoy :) and You can access cool gifs through this repository

GitHub Readme npm Downloads

Show npm packages downloads ⏬ in GitHub README

GitHub Contribution Stats

Dynamically generated GitHub Contribution Stats. 📈 📆

Github Star History

Dynamically generated GitHub repository star chart. 📈 ⭐️

Moon.svg

Add real-time moon on your GitHub profile! Moon.svg shows the current moon phase in real time!

Stackoverflow Readme Profile

Easily share your Stack overflow’s profile on your README

Github Readme Programming Quotes

Add Programming Quotes To Your GitHub Readme

Chess.com Games and Stats

Automatically update your README.md with Chess.com games and stats - fully customizable |

Terminal Gif Maker is a tool for creating code samples in the terminal interface. You can create gifs for your projects and you can show that in the README of your project. You can use the GIF in git providers like GitHub and Gitlab.

Spotify Data Card

Show your Spotify activity on your GitHub profile README.

Github Readme Activity Graph

A dynamically generated activity graph to show your GitHub activities of last 31 days.

svg banners

Styled banners for your Readme made with html/css in SVG !!

techstack generator

🕹Techstack generator that can show dynamic technology stack.

GitHub Achievements

🔥 A Complete List of GitHub Profile Badges and Achievements 🔥

D-Day.widget

Add D-Day widget to anywhere,
such as your GitHub Profile, Notion, etc

GitHub Readme YouTube Cards

GitHub action to show your latest YouTube videos on your GitHub profile or project readme automatically as dynamic SVG cards

github-unwrapped

A platform that generates a year in review video for each GitHub user

GIFs For GitHub

Awesome List of GIFs & avatars to use in GitHub markdown

Icons & Emojis

Simple Icons

2246 Free SVG icons for popular brands

Skill Icons

Showcase your skills on your GitHub readme or resumé with ease ✨

Profile Technology Icons

📋 😄 Add icons to your GitHub profile using this generator 😄 📋

Markdown Emojis

🔥 All the emojis 🎉

Animated Fluent Emojis

All the Microsoft animated fluent emojis are available in one place and ready to use in your next project or README file.

Profile Generator

Profile Readme Generator

🎨 Beautify your GitHub profile with this amazing tool, creating the readme your way in a simple and fast way 🚀 The best profile readme generator you will find ⚡