# steventroughtonsmith/cartool

Export images from OS X / iOS .car CoreUI archives

Repository: https://github.com/steventroughtonsmith/cartool
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cartool
Language: Objective-C
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2018-11-02T20:46:57+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4740, "days_push": 2861, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1801, forks 439 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:38.003549+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: developer-tools, image-processing, file-system
- domain: developer-tools, apple-ecosystem, files, image-processing
- platform: cli
- tags: coreui, asset-catalog, car-files, ios-assets, asset-extraction, macos

## Member repositories
- steventroughtonsmith/cartool (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:38.003549+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:22:14.048233+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/steventroughtonsmith/cartool (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:38.003549+00:00, sha 4539c08f7e25)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.