# steve228uk/MessengerKit

:speech_balloon: A UI framework for building messenger interfaces on iOS

Repository: https://github.com/steve228uk/MessengerKit
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/messengerkit
Language: Swift
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: swift, messenger, chat
Last push: 2021-06-21T07:48:21+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": 3006, "days_push": 1899, "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 1486, forks 126 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:51.841030+00:00)

## What it is
MessengerKit is a drop-in Swift UI framework for building messenger/chat interfaces on iOS, centered on a single UIViewController with a UICollectionView-based message list. It supports theming, auto-growing input views, and multiple message cell types like text, emoji, image, and video.

## Use cases
- build a chat interface in an iOS app
- add a messenger-style UI to my Swift app
- display chat bubbles with images and video on iOS
- create a themed messaging screen with auto-growing input
- embed a customer support chat view in an iOS app

## When to choose
- you need a ready-made, themeable chat UI for an iOS app in Swift
- you want prebuilt message cell types (text, emoji, image, video) without building from scratch
- you want a lightweight drop-in UIViewController-based messenger interface

## When to avoid
- you need SwiftUI rather than UIKit-based components
- you need active maintenance or support for the latest iOS/Swift versions, as the last release was in 2021
- you need advanced chat features like end-to-end encryption or backend integration, which this UI-only framework does not provide

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, chat-interface, frontend-framework
- domain: mobile-development, chatbots, web-development
- platform: -
- tags: messenger-ui, chat-bubbles, uikit, themable, collectionview, ios, swift, mobile

## Member repositories
- steve228uk/MessengerKit (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:51.841030+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 2026-08-30T04:33:52.832706+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/steve228uk/MessengerKit (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:51.841030+00:00, sha cf58ca52bb87)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.