# enormego/EGOCache

Fast Caching for Objective-C (iPhone & Mac Compatible)

Repository: https://github.com/enormego/EGOCache
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/egocache
Language: Objective-C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: objective-c, cache, key-value, ios, macos, watchos, tvos
Last push: 2019-06-25T16:15:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6162, "days_push": 2626, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1321, forks 287 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:21.850045+00:00)

## What it is
EGOCache is a simple, thread-safe key-value cache store for Apple platforms including macOS, iOS, tvOS, and watchOS. It natively supports NSString, UIImage, NSImage, and NSData, can store any NSCoding-compliant object, and expires cached items after a configurable timeout (one day by default).

## Use cases
- cache images in an iOS app
- add a thread-safe in-memory key-value cache to a Mac app
- store NSCoding objects with automatic expiration
- cache API responses on iPhone or Apple Watch
- simple caching for tvOS or watchOS apps

## When to choose
- you need a lightweight, dependency-free cache for Apple platforms
- you want automatic item expiration with a simple key-value API
- you need to cache images, strings, or data in Objective-C or Swift projects

## When to avoid
- you need a distributed or persistent database-backed cache
- you want an actively developed library with frequent updates
- you're not targeting Apple platforms

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: caching
- domain: developer-tools, mobile-development, cross-platform
- platform: cpp
- tags: objective-c, key-value-store, thread-safe, expiration, watchos, tvos, nscoding, ios, macos, swift

## Member repositories
- enormego/EGOCache (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:21.850045+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 2026-08-30T04:47:17.282020+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/enormego/EGOCache (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:21.850045+00:00, sha ed83168ebec5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.