# mwaterfall/MWPhotoBrowser

A simple iOS photo and video browser with grid view, captions and selections.

Repository: https://github.com/mwaterfall/MWPhotoBrowser
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mwphotobrowser
Language: Objective-C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-06-27T12:38:19+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": 5795, "days_push": 797, "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 8710, forks 2649 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:24.353237+00:00)

## What it is
MWPhotoBrowser is an Objective-C iOS library that displays one or more photos and videos with zooming, panning, captions, and an optional grid view. It handles downloading and caching of web images and supports single or multiple photo selection.

## Use cases
- display a gallery of photos in an iOS app
- let users select multiple photos from a grid
- show zoomable images with captions
- browse web-hosted images with caching
- view videos and photos in one viewer
- build an image picker with grid view

## When to choose
- you need a ready-made photo/video browser for an iOS app
- you want built-in image downloading, caching, zooming and captions
- you need localized strings for multilingual apps

## When to avoid
- you are building for Android or cross-platform
- you need a Swift-native or SwiftUI solution
- you need actively developed features, as the project is in maintenance mode

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: image-processing, ui-components, file-upload
- domain: mobile-development, media, photography
- platform: cpp
- tags: photo-browser, objective-c, cocoapods, image-viewer, video-playback, grid-view, photo-selection, image-caching, ios, mobile, swift

## Member repositories
- mwaterfall/MWPhotoBrowser (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:24.353237+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 2026-08-29T17:25:22.105523+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mwaterfall/MWPhotoBrowser (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:24.353237+00:00, sha c06b4aaa12a1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.