# RestKit/RestKit

RestKit is a framework for consuming and modeling RESTful web resources on iOS and OS X

Repository: https://github.com/RestKit/RestKit
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/restkit
Language: Objective-C
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2022-08-27T03:57:20+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6050, "days_push": 1467, "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 10094, forks 2070 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:39.544740+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: maintenance
- function: http-client, serialization, orm
- domain: web-development, mobile-development, apis
- platform: cpp
- tags: objective-c, rest-client, core-data, object-mapping, afnetworking, json, ios, macos, swift

## Member repositories
- RestKit/RestKit (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:39.544740+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 2026-08-29T17:19:44.218197+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/RestKit/RestKit (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:39.544740+00:00, sha b3cdcc3e153b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.