# senchalabs/jQTouch

Create powerful mobile apps with just HTML, CSS, and Zepto.js (or jQuery).

Repository: https://github.com/senchalabs/jQTouch
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jqtouch
Homepage: http://www.jqtouch.com/
Language: CSS
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2021-02-18T21:43:34+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": 5910, "days_push": 2022, "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 2766, forks 576 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:18.655970+00:00)

## What it is
jQTouch (jQT) is a jQuery/Zepto.js plugin for building mobile web apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, providing native-feeling animations, navigation, page history management, and themes for mobile WebKit browsers. It targets iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and WebOS devices with CSS3 transitions and Sass-based, image-less theming.

## Use cases
- build a mobile web app with html css and jquery
- add native-like page transitions to a mobile website
- create an iphone-style web app with themes
- handle swipe and orientation events in a mobile web app
- run a web app in fullscreen with custom icons on ios
- build lightweight mobile pages using zepto instead of jquery

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy mobile web app already built with jQTouch
- targeting old WebKit-only mobile browsers with jQuery or Zepto
- you want a tiny, themeable plugin rather than a full framework

## When to avoid
- starting a new mobile project - use a modern framework instead
- you need support for modern browsers beyond WebKit
- you need long-term maintenance or active community support
- building native or hybrid apps with device API access

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, animation, frontend-framework, routing
- domain: mobile-development, web-development, frontend
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: jquery-plugin, zepto, mobile-web, webkit, css3-animations, themes, sass, mobile

## Member repositories
- senchalabs/jQTouch (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:18.655970+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 2026-08-30T08:16:45.691671+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/senchalabs/jQTouch (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:18.655970+00:00, sha 6add5596bcdf)
  - homepage: http://www.jqtouch.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:56:17.343234+00:00, sha 5697f74e9c12)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.