steventroughtonsmith/cartool
Export images from OS X / iOS .car CoreUI archives observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases archived no_license
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.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4740
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2861
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1801 stars · 439 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A command-line tool written in Objective-C that exports images from Apple's .car CoreUI asset catalog archives used on OS X and iOS. It is a small, rough utility that remains useful for extracting compiled asset catalog contents.
Use cases
- extract images from a .car asset catalog file
- recover original PNG assets from a compiled iOS app bundle
- inspect contents of CoreUI archives on macOS
- convert .car files back into individual image files
- reverse engineer asset catalogs from iOS apps
When to choose
- you need to pull images out of a compiled .car asset catalog on a Mac
- you lost original assets and only have the compiled .car archive
- you want a quick, no-dependency Objective-C CLI for asset extraction
When to avoid
- you need a supported, maintained tool with a license for commercial use
- you want to create or modify .car archives rather than extract from them
- you need a cross-platform solution outside macOS
Facets
cli-tool · maturity maintenance
developer-tools image-processing file-system developer-tools apple-ecosystem files image-processing cli coreui asset-catalog car-files ios-assets asset-extraction macos
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/steventroughtonsmith/cartool · fetched 2026-08-28 · 4539c08f7e25
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| steventroughtonsmith/cartool | main | 10 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="steventroughtonsmith/cartool")
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