xmartlabs/Bender
Easily craft fast Neural Networks on iOS! Use TensorFlow models. Metal under the hood. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
23/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
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1802 stars · 89 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Bender is a Swift library that provides an abstraction layer over Apple's MetalPerformanceShaders for defining and running neural networks on iOS. It supports importing pretrained TensorFlow models and executes inference directly on the GPU.
Use cases
- run pretrained neural networks on iphone
- run tensorflow models on ios
- on-device image style transfer
- pose detection in an ios app
- run inference on gpu with metal
- add custom layers coreml doesn't support
When to choose
- you need custom or unsupported layers that CoreML can't run
- you want full GPU control via MetalPerformanceShaders instead of CoreML's throttling
- you have frozen TensorFlow graphs to run on iOS
When to avoid
- you need a broadly supported, actively updated framework - CoreML or TensorFlow Lite are better maintained
- your target is Android or cross-platform
- you need training on device - Bender only runs inference
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
machine-learning deep-learning llm-inference machine-learning mobile-development computer-vision metal metalperformanceshaders tensorflow-import on-device-inference neural-networks gpu-acceleration ios swift mobile gpu
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/xmartlabs/Bender · fetched 2026-08-28 · c208bc561bc7
- homepage: https://xmartlabs.github.io/Bender/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 0f7b0a6121e8
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
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| xmartlabs/Bender | main | 23 |
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