# indragiek/CocoaMarkdown

Markdown parsing and rendering for iOS and OS X

Repository: https://github.com/indragiek/CocoaMarkdown
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cocoamarkdown
Language: Objective-C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2019-12-13T20:01:41+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4251, "days_push": 2455, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1235, forks 160 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:04.959229+00:00)

## What it is
CocoaMarkdown is an Objective-C framework for parsing and rendering Markdown on iOS and macOS, built on the CommonMark C reference implementation. It provides AST traversal, delegate-based parsing hooks, and direct NSAttributedString rendering without converting to HTML.

## Use cases
- render markdown as native attributed strings in an iOS app
- parse markdown files into an AST on macOS
- build a custom markdown renderer with delegate callbacks
- convert markdown to HTML in a Cocoa app
- display formatted markdown text in a UITextView

## When to choose
- you need native NSAttributedString output instead of HTML on Apple platforms
- you want low-level AST access or custom parsing hooks for Markdown
- you need CommonMark-compliant parsing in Objective-C or Swift

## When to avoid
- you need Markdown rendering on non-Apple platforms
- you want an actively maintained library - the last release was 2019
- you just need simple HTML generation from Markdown in a web context

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: parser, markdown, templating
- domain: parsers, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: cpp
- tags: commonmark, nsattributedstring, objective-c, html-rendering, ast-traversal, ios, macos, swift

## Member repositories
- indragiek/CocoaMarkdown (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:04.959229+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 2026-08-30T08:22:05.883227+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/indragiek/CocoaMarkdown (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:04.959229+00:00, sha 61e074b6783c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.