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RestKit/RestKit

RestKit is a framework for consuming and modeling RESTful web resources on iOS and OS X observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/RestKit/RestKit · Objective-C · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

23/100

  • Activity 0
  • 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: 6050
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 1467
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

10094 stars · 2070 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

RestKit is an Objective-C framework for building RESTful web service clients on iOS and OS X. It provides an object mapping engine integrated with Core Data, built on top of AFNetworking, to map HTTP requests and responses to native objects.

Use cases

  • consume REST APIs from an iOS app
  • map JSON responses to Objective-C objects
  • sync RESTful resources with Core Data
  • build an OS X client for a web service
  • model remote resources as native objects

When to choose

  • you maintain an existing Objective-C iOS/OS X app that already uses RestKit
  • you need Core Data-backed object mapping for REST resources in Objective-C

When to avoid

  • you are starting a new Swift project - modern alternatives like Alamofire or URLSession are better maintained
  • you need a framework under active development - releases are infrequent

Facets

framework · maturity maintenance

http-client serialization orm web-development mobile-development apis cpp objective-c rest-client core-data object-mapping afnetworking json ios macos swift

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