Top Objective-C GitHub Repositories & Open Source Projects (2026)

KeyCastr, an open-source keystroke visualizer

Asynchronous image downloader with cache support as a UIImageView category

MBProgressHUD + Customizations

tap + haiku = tapku, a well crafted open source iOS framework

Core Data code generation

Quicksilver Project Source

A QuickLook plugin that lets you view plain text files without a file extension

An XML/HTML parser for Objective-C, inspired by Hpricot.

Nu is an interpreted Lisp that builds on the Objective-C runtime and Foundation framework.

Notational Velocity: modeless, mouseless Mac OS X note-taking application

Fast Caching for Objective-C (iPhone & Mac Compatible)

OS X comic viewer

A UIButton subclass that works with for non-rectangular button shapes.

iPhone utilities mostly for Core Animation

A toolkit consisting of a bunch of generally useful routines and extensions I wrote when putting together other projects.

A powerhouse of audio functionality for macOS, iOS, and tvOS.

A port of Ruby on Rails' ActiveResource to Objective-C (and specifically the iPhone)

EGODatabase is a thread-safe Objective-C SQLite wrapper with full support for asynchronous SQLite calls as well as built in NSOperationQueue support.

NatsuLiphone - The twitter client for iPhone / iPod touch

Two letters better than MetaX