pinterest/PINRemoteImage
A thread safe, performant, feature rich image fetcher observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
67/100
- Activity 98
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
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: 4060
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 12
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
4025 stars · 515 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
PINRemoteImage is a thread-safe, high-performance image downloading, processing, and caching library for iOS, written in Objective-C. It deduplicates download/processing tasks, decodes images off the main thread, and supports PNG, JPG, WebP, GIFs, animated WebP, and progressive JPEGs with blurred previews.
Use cases
- download and cache remote images in an iOS app
- load animated GIFs and WebP images in UIImageView
- display progressive JPEGs with a blur while loading on slow networks
- avoid duplicate image downloads when multiple views request the same URL
- decode images off the main thread to keep scrolling smooth
- set images on UIImageView or UIButton from a URL with one line of code
When to choose
- you need a battle-tested, thread-safe image fetcher for an Objective-C or Swift iOS app
- your app displays GIFs, animated WebP, or progressive JPEGs
- you want deduplicated downloads and off-main-thread decoding out of the box
- you need easy UIImageView/UIButton integration via categories
When to avoid
- you are building for Android or other non-Apple platforms
- you prefer a pure Swift library like SDWebImage alternatives or Kingfisher
- you need cross-platform (React Native/Flutter) image loading
- your project no longer supports Objective-C dependencies
Facets
library · maturity stable
image-processing caching http-client mobile-development image-processing cpp objective-c webp progressive-jpeg gif uikit cocoapods image-downloader thread-safe ios swift
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/pinterest/PINRemoteImage · fetched 2026-08-28 · 19b42e5b03c8
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| pinterest/PINRemoteImage | main | 67 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="pinterest/PINRemoteImage")
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