alexbw/novocaine
Painless high-performance audio on iOS and Mac OS X observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5266
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2835
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2232 stars · 270 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Novocaine is an Objective-C/C++ library that wraps Apple's low-level Audio Units API to make high-performance real-time audio input and output on iOS and Mac OS X simple. It provides easy block-based callbacks for reading microphone audio and writing playback audio with minimal code.
Use cases
- capture microphone audio in real time on iOS
- play back generated audio with low latency on Mac
- build an audio analyzer or oscilloscope app
- route audio input to output for pass-through monitoring
- avoid writing raw Core Audio Audio Unit code
When to choose
- you need low-latency real-time audio on iOS or macOS without wrestling with Audio Units
- you want a simple block-based API for mic input and speaker output
- you're building audio analysis tools like RTAs or oscilloscopes in Objective-C
When to avoid
- you need cross-platform audio beyond Apple platforms
- you're using Swift exclusively and don't want Objective-C++ interop
- you need actively maintained software - the last release was in 2018
- you need high-level features like codecs, file playback, or effects chains
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
audio-processing sdk mobile-development developer-tools cpp core-audio audio-units objective-c real-time-audio microphone playback audio ios macos
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/alexbw/novocaine · fetched 2026-08-28 · 1e4301f0b814
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| alexbw/novocaine | main | 32 |
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