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krzysztofzablocki/LifetimeTracker

Find retain cycles / memory leaks sooner. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/krzysztofzablocki/LifetimeTracker · homepage · Swift · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

66/100

  • Activity 70
  • Release rhythm 41
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 274
  • age_days: 3320
  • days_rel: 181
  • days_push: 181
  • n_releases_24m: 2

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

3305 stars · 155 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

LifetimeTracker is a Swift library for iOS that surfaces retain cycles and memory leaks in real time during development. It tracks object lifetimes and displays issues via an in-app dashboard overlay, working with both Swift and Objective-C codebases.

Use cases

  • find retain cycles in ios app
  • detect memory leaks during development
  • track viewmodel deallocation
  • debug memory issues in swift classes
  • surface leaked objects while developing features
  • monitor object lifetimes in objective-c and swift

When to choose

  • you want immediate visual feedback on leaks while developing, not sporadic Instruments sessions
  • your codebase is pure Swift where ObjC-runtime-based detectors like FBRetainCycleDetector fall short
  • you want to track key actors like ViewModels and Controllers with a lightweight debug-only dependency

When to avoid

  • you need automatic retain-cycle detection with full object graph analysis rather than lifetime tracking
  • you want leak detection in production or release builds
  • your project is not iOS/Cocoa-based

Facets

library · maturity active

monitoring developer-tools testing developer-tools mobile-development apple-ecosystem memory-leaks retain-cycles debugging swift objective-c in-app-dashboard ios mobile

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Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
krzysztofzablocki/LifetimeTrackermain66

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