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plaid/plaid-link-ios
Plaid Link iOS SDK
The official iOS SDK for Plaid Link — the OAuth-style bank account connection flow used by fintech apps. This repo is primarily a sample app showcase and binary distribution point; the actual SDK ships as a precompiled XCFramework. If you're building an iOS app that needs bank account linking, this is the only supported path.
The SPM split into a separate lightweight repo (plaid-link-ios-spm) is the right call — the main repo is ~1GB and SPM downloads full history, so pointing users at a 500kb pointer package is a genuine quality-of-life improvement. Demo apps cover UIKit, SwiftUI, headless session, embedded link, and Objective-C, which is thorough enough to copy-paste your way to a working integration. The XCFramework ships slices for device arm64, simulator arm64/x86_64, and Mac Catalyst, so no surprises at archive time. The PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy file is included, which saves you from App Store review rejections on privacy manifest requirements.
You're integrating a closed binary — no source code, no ability to audit what data it collects or how it handles credentials, which matters when you're touching financial accounts. The 155 stars suggest this is mostly used by people who have no alternative rather than people who chose it; there's no real community around it. Migration guides exist (v5→v6, v6→v7) but if Plaid breaks something in a binary update you shipped, you're blocked until they fix it — no workaround available. The Objective-C demo lives in the SPM repo rather than here, so the directory tree in this repo is misleadingly incomplete.