These network libraries include HTTP, JSON, XML, network debugging, Socket, XMPP, WebServer,
IRC, Download, Bluetooth, OpenSSL, Mail, Proxy, SIP, etc.
| Rank | Repositories | Introduction to the |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | AFNetworking AFNetworking star:20958  |
A delightful iOS and OS X networking framework |
| 2 | SDWebImage Olivier Poitrey star:11507  |
Asynchronous image downloader with cache support as a UIImageView category |
| 3 | RestKit The RestKit Project star:8934  |
RestKit is a framework for consuming and modeling RESTful web resources on iOS and OS X |
| 4 | JSONKit johnezang star:5342  |
Objective-C JSON |
| 5 | FLEX star:5255  |
An in-app debugging and exploration tool for iOS |
| 6 | CocoaAsyncSocket Robbie Hanson star:4904  |
Asynchronous socket networking library for Mac and iOS |
| 7 | Reachability Tony Million star:4727  |
ARC and GCD Compatible Reachability Class for iOS and MacOS. Drop in replacement for Apple Reachability |
| 8 | PonyDebugger Square star:4489  |
Remote network and data debugging for your native iOS app using Chrome Developer Tools |
| 9 | SocketRocket Square star:4340  |
A conforming Objective-C WebSocket client library. |
| 10 | JSONModel Marin Todorov star:4266  |
Magical Data Modelling Framework for JSON. Create rapidly powerful, atomic and smart data model classes |
| 11 | json-framework Stig Brautaset star:3635  |
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a light-weight data interchange format that’s easy to read and write for humans and computers alike. This framework implements a strict JSON parser and generator in Objective-C. |
| 12 | XMPPFramework Robbie Hanson star:3554 |
An XMPP Framework in Objective-C for Mac and iOS |
| 13 | MJExtension M a J star:3459  |
A fast, convenient and nonintrusive conversion between JSON and model. Your model class don’t need to extend another base class. You don’t need to modify any model file. |
| 14 | CocoaHTTPServer Robbie Hanson star:2989 |
A small, lightweight, embeddable HTTP server for Mac OS X or iOS applications |
| 15 | MKNetworkKit Mugunth Kumar star:2707  |
Magical Data Modelling Framework for JSON. Create rapidly powerful, atomic and smart data model classes |
| 16 | GCDWebServer Pierre-Olivier Latour star:1926  |
Lightweight GCD based HTTP server for OS X & iOS (includes web based uploader & WebDAV server) |
| 17 | OHHTTPStubs AliSoftware star:1832  |
Stub your network requests easily! Test your apps with fake network data and custom response time, response code and headers! |
| 18 | YTKNetwork Ape Question Bank technology team star:1807  |
YTKNetwork is a high level request util based on AFNetworking. |
| 19 | Ono Mattt Thompson star:1636  |
A sensible way to deal with XML & HTML for iOS & OS X |
| 20 | hpple Geoffrey Grosenbach star:1583  |
An XML/HTML parser for Objective-C, inspired by Hpricot. topfunky.com |
| 21 | Nocilla Luis Solano star:1396  |
Testing HTTP requests has never been easier. Nocilla: Stunning HTTP stubbing for iOS and Mac OS X. twitter.com/luisobo |
| 22 | peertalk Rasmus star:1260  |
iOS and Mac Cocoa library for communicating over USB rsms.me/peertalk/ |
| 23 | Textual Codeux Software, LLC star:1238 |
Textual is an IRC client for OS X www.codeux.com/textual/ |
| 24 | cocoa-rest-client Mike Mattozzi star:1085  |
A free, native Apple OS X app for testing HTTP/REST endpoints Mmattozzi. Making. IO/cocoa – rest -… |
| 25 | limechat Satoshi Nakagawa star:1039  |
IRC Client for Mac limechat.net/mac/ |
| 26 | AFOAuth2Manager AFNetworking star:967 |
AFNetworking Extension for OAuth 2 Authentication |
| 27 | STTwitter Nicolas Seriot star:920  |
A stable, mature and comprehensive Objective-C library for Twitter REST API 1.1 |
| 28 | AFDownloadRequestOperation Peter Steinberger star:901  |
A progressive download operation for AFNetworking. |
| 29 | SimpleAuth Caleb Davenport star:891  |
Simple social authentication for iOS. simpleauth.io |
| 30 | BeaconOSX Matthew Robinson star:844  |
Use a Bluetooth 4 enabled Mac running Mavericks (not Yosemite) as an iBeacon www.blendedcocoa.com/blog/2013/1… |
| 31 | OpenSSL-for-iPhone Felix Schulze star:832  |
A script for compiling OpenSSL for iOS Devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) www.x2on.de |
| 32 | STHTTPRequest Nicolas Seriot star:782 |
Obj-C / Cocoa HTTP requests for humans |
| 33 | BeaconEmitter Laurent Gaches star:740  |
Turn your Mac as an iBeacon |
| 34 | MMMarkdown Matt Diephouse star:735  |
An Objective-C static library for converting Markdown to HTML. |
| 35 | MailCore MailCore star:728  |
MailCore 1.0 is a Mac/iOS framework for working with the e-mail protocols IMAP and SMTP. www.libmailcore.com |
| 36 | objectiveflickr Lukhnos Liu star:707  |
ObjectiveFlickr, a Flickr API framework for Objective-C |
| 37 | InstagramKit Shyam Bhat star:668  |
Instagram iOS SDK |
| 38 | fakeThunder Zheng Zhu star:652  |
fakeThunder is an unofficial Thunder(aka Xunlei) client for OS X. Martianz. Cn/fakethunder… |
| 39 | iOS-OnionBrowser Onion Browser star:648  |
An open-source, privacy-enhancing web browser for iOS, utilizing the Tor anonymity network Mike. Tig. The as/onionbrowse… |
| 40 | TCBlobDownload Thibault Charbonnier star:621  |
Concurrent large files downloads for iOS Cocoadocs.org/docsets/TCB… |
| 41 | SkyLab Mattt Thompson star:605 |
Multivariate & A/B Testing for iOS and Mac |
| 42 | WebViewProxy Marcus Westin star:533  |
A standalone iOS & OSX class for intercepting and proxying HTTP requests (e.g. from a Web View) Twitter.com/marcuswesti… |
| 43 | Barista Steve Streza star:523  |
A modular, embeddable web server for Objective-C. |
| 44 | BabyBluetooth Liu Yanwei star:454  |
The easiest way to use Bluetooth (BLE )in ios/os ,even bady can use . A very easy to use Bluetooth library for ios and OS |
| 45 | speedlimit Mike Schrag star:450  |
Network bandwidth limiter for testing iphone apps |
| 46 | Telephone Alexei Kuznetsov star:448  |
SIP softphone for Mac www.tlphn.com |
| 47 | ConnectionKit Karelia Software star:447  |
FTP/SFTP/WebDAV etc. for Cocoa. Join the ConnectionKit mailing list for information and suggestions. Lists.opensource.utr-software.com/listinfo.cg… |
| 48 | Air-Test Rakuraku Jyo star:349  |
A tool that will make a lot of iPhone/iPad developers’ life easier. It shares your app over-the-air in a WiFi network. Bonjour is used and no configuration is needed. |
| 49 | protobuf-objc Alexey Khokhlov star:254  |
Google Protocol Buffers for Objective-C protobuf.io/#objc |
| 50 | GCNetworkReachability Glenn Chiu star:149  |
GCNetworkReachability monitors the network state on iOS and OS X devices. Supports ARC, GCD, Blocks, IPv4/IPv6 and OS X/iOS. |