# intentkit/IntentKit

An easier way to handle third-party URL schemes in iOS apps.

Repository: https://github.com/intentkit/IntentKit
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/intentkit-intentkit
Homepage: http://intentkit.github.io
Language: Objective-C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2017-05-24T08:56:52+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4659, "days_push": 3388, "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 1785, forks 113 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:36.104855+00:00)

## What it is
IntentKit is an open-source iOS library that simplifies linking to third-party apps via URL schemes, similar to Android's Intents. It provides a semantic API to detect installed apps, present a chooser UI, and remember user preferences for actions like browsing, mapping, and emailing.

## Use cases
- open map links in Google Maps instead of Apple Maps on iOS
- let users choose which installed browser opens a URL
- compose email in the user's preferred third-party mail client
- handle Twitter sharing across multiple installed Twitter clients
- avoid hand-writing URL scheme detection and canOpenURL checks
- present an app chooser sheet for inter-app actions

## When to choose
- building an older Objective-C or Swift iOS app that needs to hand off actions to third-party apps
- you want a unified, plist-driven registry of third-party URL schemes instead of managing them manually
- you want a ready-made UI for users to pick which app performs an action

## When to avoid
- starting a new modern iOS project - the library is unmaintained (last release 2017) and predates current iOS URL scheme requirements
- you only need to open links in one known app - simple UIApplication openURL code suffices
- you need Android-style system-level intents; iOS has no equivalent and this library only covers a fixed set of apps

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: routing, ui-components, developer-tools
- domain: mobile-development, developer-tools
- platform: -
- tags: url-schemes, inter-app-linking, cocoapods, app-intents, objective-c, ios, mobile, swift

## Member repositories
- intentkit/IntentKit (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:36.104855+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 2026-08-30T03:24:12.691149+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/intentkit/IntentKit (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:36.104855+00:00, sha 0b96276243c4)
  - homepage: http://intentkit.github.io (fetched 2026-08-29T11:02:34.322951+00:00, sha aa2dc72b54f4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.