# pinterest/PINRemoteImage

A thread safe, performant, feature rich image fetcher

Repository: https://github.com/pinterest/PINRemoteImage
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pinremoteimage
Language: Objective-C
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: ios, objective-c, image, webp, progressive-jpgs, gifs
Last push: 2026-08-21T22:01:51+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4060, "days_push": 12, "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 4025, forks 515 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:32.588679+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: image-processing, caching, http-client
- domain: mobile-development, image-processing
- platform: cpp
- tags: objective-c, webp, progressive-jpeg, gif, uikit, cocoapods, image-downloader, thread-safe, ios, swift

## Member repositories
- pinterest/PINRemoteImage (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:32.588679+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 2026-08-29T18:23:54.476651+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pinterest/PINRemoteImage (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:32.588679+00:00, sha 19b42e5b03c8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.