Useful Objective-C Libraries for iOS

A curated list of awesome iOS ecosystem, in Objective-C, Useful Objective-C Libraries for iOS.

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A curated list of awesome iOS libraries. The list is divided into categories, this list should insist of very useful libraries that can make life very easy for developers.

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Networking

Name	Description	Github
YYModel	High performance model framework for iOS/OSX.	Source
YYCache	High performance cache framework for iOS.	Source
AFNetworking	A delightful networking framework for iOS, OS X, watchOS, and tvOS.	Source
AFNetworking Retry Policy	Nice category that adds the ability to set the retry interval, retry count and progressive	Source
RestKit	Note: The RestKit is using deprecated libraries, Apple will stop any app using Restkit for AFNetworking old version embeded in Restkit, RestKit is a modern Objective-C framework for implementing RESTful web services clients on iOS and Mac OS X.	Source
HTMLKit	An Objective-C framework for your everyday HTML needs.	Source

Security

Name	Description	Github
LTHPasscodeViewController	Simple to use iOS 7 style Passcode - the one you get in Settings when changing your passcode.	Source

Loading & Progress

Name	Description	Github
SVProgressHUD	A clean and lightweight progress HUD for your iOS and tvOS app.	Source
KVNProgress	KVNProgress is a fully customizable progress HUD that can be full screen or not.	Source

Database

Name	Description	Github
Realm	Realm is a mobile database: a replacement for Core Data & SQLite.	Source

Date & Time

Name	Description	Github
DateTools	Dates and times made easy in Objective-C.	Source
NSDate-TimeAgo	A "time ago", "time since", "relative date", or "fuzzy date" category for NSDate and iOS.	Source

Audio & Video

Name	Description	Github
IQAudioRecorderController	A drop-in universal library allows to record audio within the app with a nice User Interface.	Source
ALMoviePlayerController	A drop-in replacement for MPMoviePlayerController that exposes the UI elements and allows for maximum customization.	Source

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Keyboards & PickerView

Name	Description	Github
IQDropDownTextField	TextField with DropDown support using UIPickerView.	Source
IQKeyboardManager	Codeless drop-in universal library allows to prevent issues of keyboard sliding up and cover UITextField/UITextView. Neither need to write any code nor any setup required and much more.	Source
ZSSRichTextEditor	A beautiful rich text WYSIWYG editor for iOS with a syntax highlighted source view.	Source
BEMCheckBox	BEMCheckBox is an open source library making it easy to create beautiful, highly customizable, animated checkboxes for iOS.	Source

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Views & UIView

Name	Description	Github
IQGradientMaskView	IQGradientView is a subclass to show Gradient Mask on the top and bottom.	Source
WYPopoverController	WYPopoverController is for the presentation of content in popover on iPhone / iPad devices. Very customizable.	Source
AsyncImageView	AsyncImageView is a simple extension of UIImageView for loading and displaying images asynchronously on iOS so that they do not lock up the UI.	Source
YYWebImage	Asynchronous image loading framework.	Source
YYImage	Image framework for iOS to display/encode/decode animated WebP, APNG, GIF, and more.	Source
RSKImageCropper	An image cropper for iOS like in the Contacts app with support for landscape orientation.	Source

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Photos & UIImage

Name	Description	Github
DZNPhotoPickerController	A photo search/picker for iOS using popular photo providers like 500px, Flickr, Intagram, Google & Bing Images.	Source
IQAsyncImage	Asynchronous Image Loading Framework with progress and text initial placeholder support.	Source
UIImageView-Letters	An easy, helpful UIImageView category that generates letter initials as a placeholder for user profile images, with a randomized background color.	Source
IQZoomImageView	Zoomable imageView with shadow support.	Source
YUCIHighPassSkinSmoothing	An implementation of High Pass Skin Smoothing using CoreImage.framework.	Source
SVGKit	SVGKit is a Cocoa framework for rendering SVG files natively: it's fast and powerful.	Source
PINRemoteImage	Fast, non-deadlocking parallel image downloader and cache for iOS.	Source
TOCropViewController	TOCropViewController is an open-source UIViewController subclass built to allow users to perform basic manipulation on UIImage objects; specifically cropping and some basic rotations.	Source
FastImageCache (Path)	iOS library for quickly displaying images while scrolling.	Source

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PDF & Files

Name	Description	Github
UIView_2_PDF	PDF generator using UIViews or UIViews with an associated XIB	Source
SSZipArchive	ZipArchive is a simple utility class for zipping and unzipping files on iOS and Mac.	Source

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Alerts & Notifications

Name	Description	Github
FTIndicator	A light wight UI package contains local notification, progress HUD, toast, with blur effect, elegant API and themes Support.	Source

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UILabel & TextField

Name	Description	Github
ResponsiveLabel	A UILabel subclass which responds to touch on specified patterns (Pattern Detection - Detects email in text), (String Detection), (URL Detection), etc...	Source
JVFloatLabeledTextField	UITextField subclass with floating labels	Source

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Localization

Name	Description	Github
Hodor	Hodor is a simple solution to localize your iOS App quickly, allow you to change language of project in-app without quiting the app, Just like WeChat.	Source
Lin	Lin is a Xcode plugin that provides auto-completion for NSLocalizedString.	Source

Sliders

Name	Description	Github
NMRangeSlider	NMRangeSlider is custom iOS control that gives you a UISlider like UI for selecting a range of values.	Source

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Streaming

Name	Description	Github
StreamingKit	A fast and extensible gapless AudioPlayer/AudioStreamer for OSX and iOS.	Source
LFLiveKit	H264 and AAC Hard coding，support GPUImage Beauty， rtmp transmission，weak network lost frame，Dynamic switching rate.	Source

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in-app Debugging

Name	Description	Github
FLEX	An in-app debugging and exploration tool for iOS.	Source

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JSON

Name	Description	Github
JSONExport	JSONExport is a desktop application for Mac OS X which enables you to export JSON objects as model classes with their associated constructors, utility methods, setters and getters in your favorite language.	Source

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