brainflow-dev/brainflow

BrainFlow is a library intended to obtain, parse and analyze EEG, EMG, ECG and other kinds of data from biosensors

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BrainFlow is a library intended to obtain, parse and analyze EEG, EMG, ECG, and other kinds of data from biosensors.

It provides a uniform SDK to work with biosensors with a primary focus on neurointerfaces, all features available for free and distributed under MIT license.

Advantages of BrainFlow:

  • powerful API with many features to simplify development
    • Straightforward API for data acquisition
    • Powerful API for signal filtering, denoising, downsampling...
    • Development tools like Synthetic board, Streaming board, logging API
  • easy to use
    • BrainFlow has many bindings, you can choose programming language you like
    • All programming languages provide the same API, so it's simple to switch
    • API is uniform for all boards, it makes applications on top of BrainFlow almost board agnostic
  • easy to support and extend
    • Code to read data and to perform signal processing is implemented only once in C/C++, bindings just call C/C++ methods
    • Powerful CI/CD system which runs integrations tests for each commit automatically using BrainFlow's Emulator
    • Simplified process to add new boards and methods

Resources

Contribution guidelines

If you want to contribute to BrainFlow, be sure to review the contribution guidelines. This project adheres to BrainFlow's code of conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code.

We use GitHub issues for tracking requests and bugs, please use BrainFlow's slack for general discussions.

The BrainFlow project strives to abide by generally accepted best practices in open-source software development.

Build Status

Build TypeStatus
Windows TestsRun Windows
Unix(Linux and MacOS) TestsRun Unix
Android TestsRun Android NDK
Alpine TestsRun Alpine
Valgrind TestsRun Valgrind
CppCheckCppCheck
Clang-FormatClang Format

Brainflow Bindings

We support bindings for:

Partners and Sponsors

OpenBCI

License:

MIT

bci
biosensor
biosensors
biosignals
brain-computer-interface
brain-control
brainflow
brain-machine-interface
ecg
eeg
eeg-analysis
emg
emg-signal
muse
neuroscience
openbci
python
signal-processing

brainflow-dev/brainflow

BrainFlow is a library intended to obtain, parse and analyze EEG, EMG, ECG and other kinds of data from biosensors

C++

1,771

1,407 commits

updated Oct 6, 2026

See the code

README


GitHub all releases PYPI Nuget

BrainFlow is a library intended to obtain, parse and analyze EEG, EMG, ECG, and other kinds of data from biosensors.

It provides a uniform SDK to work with biosensors with a primary focus on neurointerfaces, all features available for free and distributed under MIT license.

Advantages of BrainFlow:

  • powerful API with many features to simplify development
    • Straightforward API for data acquisition
    • Powerful API for signal filtering, denoising, downsampling...
    • Development tools like Synthetic board, Streaming board, logging API
  • easy to use
    • BrainFlow has many bindings, you can choose programming language you like
    • All programming languages provide the same API, so it's simple to switch
    • API is uniform for all boards, it makes applications on top of BrainFlow almost board agnostic
  • easy to support and extend
    • Code to read data and to perform signal processing is implemented only once in C/C++, bindings just call C/C++ methods
    • Powerful CI/CD system which runs integrations tests for each commit automatically using BrainFlow's Emulator
    • Simplified process to add new boards and methods

Resources

Contribution guidelines

If you want to contribute to BrainFlow, be sure to review the contribution guidelines. This project adheres to BrainFlow's code of conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code.

We use GitHub issues for tracking requests and bugs, please use BrainFlow's slack for general discussions.

The BrainFlow project strives to abide by generally accepted best practices in open-source software development.

Build Status

Build TypeStatus
Windows TestsRun Windows
Unix(Linux and MacOS) TestsRun Unix
Android TestsRun Android NDK
Alpine TestsRun Alpine
Valgrind TestsRun Valgrind
CppCheckCppCheck
Clang-FormatClang Format

Brainflow Bindings

We support bindings for:

Partners and Sponsors

OpenBCI

License:

MIT

bci
biosensor
biosensors
biosignals
brain-computer-interface
brain-control
brainflow
brain-machine-interface
ecg
eeg
eeg-analysis
emg
emg-signal
muse
neuroscience
openbci
python
signal-processing

Project health

Overall

4.3/10

Maintained

10/10

Code review

5/10
OpenSSF Scorecard

Latest release

5.23.0 · Sep 13, 2026

Releases this year

7

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487 followers · starred Apr 2026

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4,756 followers · starred Oct 2025

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269 followers · starred Dec 2021