malcommac/Repeat

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Repeat is a lightweight Swift library providing a modern GCD-based alternative to NSTimer, with support for infinite, finite, and one-shot timers, multiple observers, and pause/resume control. It also includes a debouncer and throttler for rate-limiting function calls.

Use cases

• replace NSTimer with a modern Swift timer
• schedule a task to run every N seconds in Swift
• debounce user input events in an iOS app
• throttle API calls to once per interval
• run a repeating timer on a background thread
• create a one-shot delayed action in Swift

When to choose

• you need a timer without strong reference cycles or NSObject inheritance
• you want debounce/throttle utilities in Swift
• you need timers that work on background threads with multiple observers

When to avoid

• you need a maintained library with recent updates (last release 2021)
• you're targeting platforms outside Apple's ecosystem
• you can use Combine or async/await timers in modern Swift instead

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

scheduling concurrency developer-tools apple-ecosystem developer-tools timer nstimer-alternative gcd debouncer throttler swift automation ios macos

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