zhuhaow/NEKit

A toolkit for Network Extension Framework observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/zhuhaow/NEKit · homepage · Swift · BSD-3-Clause (permissive) · archived observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

10/100

Activity 0
Release rhythm 8
Longevity 100

Flags: archived

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: n/a
age_days: 3770
days_rel: n/a
days_push: 2330
n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2816 stars · 667 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

NEKit is a Swift toolkit for building iOS/macOS Network Extension apps (NETunnelProvider) that route traffic through proxies to bypass network filtering and censorship. It provides a rule-based proxy engine, tun2socks-style TCP flow reassembly, and a DNS rewriting server, and is explicitly deprecated by its author.

Use cases

build an iOS VPN/proxy app with Network Extension
route traffic through shadowsocks or other proxies based on rules
implement a rule-based local proxy without Network Extension entitlement
rewrite DNS requests and responses on-device
reassemble TCP packets into flows inside a tunnel provider

When to choose

you need low-level building blocks for a Network Extension proxy app and are willing to understand and patch the internals
you are maintaining a legacy app already built on NEKit

When to avoid

starting a new project - the library is deprecated and unmaintained since 2020
you want a production-ready, out-of-the-box proxy solution
you need TUN interface support, which is broken
you want efficient async I/O - the author notes architectural and performance flaws

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

proxy networking http-client networking privacy censorship-circumvention developer-tools network-extension shadowsocks tun2socks proxy-framework deprecated swift ios macos

2 sources

readme: https://github.com/zhuhaow/NEKit · fetched 2026-08-28 · 5e2811b0105f
homepage: https://zhuhaow.github.io/NEKit · fetched 2026-08-29 · 3914e85b7cea

Member repositories

Repository	Role	Health v2
zhuhaow/NEKit	main	10

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