# kaishin/Gifu

High-performance animated GIF support for iOS in Swift

Repository: https://github.com/kaishin/Gifu
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gifu
Language: Swift
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: swift, carthage, gif, animation, cocoapods
Last push: 2025-08-17T07:20:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 52/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 37, release rhythm 43, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4378, "days_push": 381, "days_rel": 381, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- 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 3213, forks 287 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:49.429837+00:00)

## What it is
Gifu is a Swift library that adds high-performance, protocol-based animated GIF support to UIKit on iOS, tvOS, and visionOS. It uses a memory-efficient frame buffering Animator so large GIFs can play without loading every frame into memory.

## Use cases
- play animated gifs in an ios app
- display large gif files without high memory usage
- add gif animation to a custom uiimageview subclass
- control gif playback start and stop in uikit
- render gifs on tvos or visionos

## When to choose
- you need memory-efficient GIF animation in a UIKit app
- you want GIF support composable with any UIView subclass via protocols
- you support iOS, tvOS, or visionOS with Swift Package Manager, CocoaPods, or Carthage

## When to avoid
- you need animated GIF support in SwiftUI without UIKit interop
- your project targets platforms outside Apple's ecosystem
- you need animated formats beyond GIF, such as WebP or APNG

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: animation, image-processing, ui-components
- domain: mobile-development, graphics
- platform: -
- tags: gif, uikit, swift-package-manager, carthage, cocoapods, tvos, visionos, ios, swift, mobile

## Member repositories
- kaishin/Gifu (main) score 52

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:49.429837+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 2026-08-30T07:24:42.008140+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kaishin/Gifu (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:49.429837+00:00, sha 323c654e53ef)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.