# fangshufeng/MachOView

分析Macho必备工具

Repository: https://github.com/fangshufeng/MachOView
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/fangshufeng-machoview
Language: Objective-C
License Family: other
Last push: 2019-09-24T13:44:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2849, "days_push": 2535, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1046, forks 206 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:21.819982+00:00)

## What it is
MachOView is a macOS GUI application for browsing and analyzing Mach-O binary files, a maintained fork of the original gdbinit/MachOView that fixes compilation issues. It displays Mach-O headers, symbol tables, string tables, and Objective-C metadata such as MetaClass info.

## Use cases
- inspect mach-o binary structure on mac
- view symbol table and dynamic symbol table of an ios binary
- analyze string table of a mach-o executable
- reverse engineer an ios app binary
- view objective-c metaclass info in a binary
- debug why a mach-o file fails to parse

## When to choose
- you need a free GUI tool on macOS to explore Mach-O binaries
- you are doing iOS/macOS reverse engineering and want to inspect headers, symbols, and ObjC metadata visually

## When to avoid
- you need a cross-platform or command-line Mach-O analyzer
- you require active maintenance or official support, as updates are infrequent
- you need a permissively licensed tool for commercial redistribution, since no license is specified

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: reverse-engineering, parser, developer-tools, gui
- domain: developer-tools, reverse-engineering, apple-ecosystem, operating-systems
- platform: -
- tags: mach-o, binary-analysis, objective-c, ios-reverse-engineering, macos-app, binary-viewer, macos, desktop

## Member repositories
- fangshufeng/MachOView (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:21.819982+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 2026-08-30T07:01:57.016827+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/fangshufeng/MachOView (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:21.819982+00:00, sha f202e9cc7f36)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.