# dustturtle/RealReachability

We need to observe the REAL reachability of network. That's what RealReachability do.

Repository: https://github.com/dustturtle/RealReachability
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/realreachability
Language: Objective-C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: reachability, cocoapods, carthage, ping, scnetworkreachability-api, realreachability
Last push: 2026-04-29T06:58:35+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 58/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 79, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3877, "days_push": 126, "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 3102, forks 491 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:43.621295+00:00)

## What it is
An iOS library that determines real internet reachability rather than just local network connection status, by combining SCNetworkReachability with ICMP ping probes and a finite state machine. This original repository is now legacy; development has moved to RealReachability2.

## Use cases
- detect real internet connectivity on iOS
- check if network is actually reachable not just connected
- verify actual reachability before making network requests
- monitor network status changes in an iOS app
- distinguish wifi/cellular connectivity from true internet access

## When to choose
- you need true internet reachability on iOS, not just local connection status
- you maintain a legacy Objective-C iOS codebase on iOS 12+
- you want ping-based verification combined with SCNetworkReachability

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - use RealReachability2 instead
- you need Swift async/await APIs or iOS 13+ features
- you need cross-platform reachability beyond iOS

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: networking, monitoring
- domain: networking, developer-tools
- platform: -
- tags: reachability, ping, network-connectivity, scnetworkreachability, cocoapods, carthage, legacy, ios-tools, ios, mobile, swift, objective-c

## Member repositories
- dustturtle/RealReachability (main) score 58

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:43.621295+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 2026-08-29T18:46:20.566313+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/dustturtle/RealReachability (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:43.621295+00:00, sha b8aa21682340)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.