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dkhamsing/open-source-ios-apps
:iphone: Collaborative List of Open-Source iOS Apps
A community-maintained catalog of 1,655 open-source iOS apps organized by category — browsers, games, clones, health apps, and everything in between. It's a reference list, not a framework or library. Useful for iOS developers looking for real-world code examples or studying how production apps handle specific problems.
1. Genuinely large and actively maintained — updated as recently as yesterday, with apps spanning iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS. 2. The README is generated from a structured contents.json, meaning the data is machine-readable and the list stays consistent. 3. Breadth of technology coverage is real: ObjC, Swift, SwiftUI, React Native, Flutter, Xamarin all represented, so you can find examples in your stack. 4. Many entries link to live App Store listings, which means the code actually shipped — not just toy projects.
1. No quality signal beyond star count — a 6-star repo from 2020 gets the same listing treatment as a 50k-star one. You have to click through to find out if the code is worth reading. 2. Staleness is invisible in the list: entries from 2017-2019 sit next to 2026 ones with no visual distinction, and old ObjC code targeting deprecated APIs can waste your time. 3. No dependency or complexity metadata — there's no way to filter for 'simple SwiftUI example' vs 'production app with 20 third-party dependencies' without opening each repo. 4. The category taxonomy is shallow and inconsistent; 'Misc' contains Flutter, GraphQL, RxSwift, and macOS apps dumped together, which makes browsing it useless.