# zipme/RQShineLabel

Secret app like text animation

Repository: https://github.com/zipme/RQShineLabel
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rqshinelabel
Language: Objective-C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-12-25T18:38:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4501, "days_push": 982, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1951, forks 216 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:58.231725+00:00)

## What it is
RQShineLabel is a UILabel subclass for iOS that animates text with a shimmering fade-in/fade-out effect similar to the Secret app. It is a small Objective-C component distributed via CocoaPods or manual file inclusion.

## Use cases
- animate text with a shine effect in an iOS app
- recreate the Secret app text reveal animation
- fade text in and out with a completion callback
- add a shimmering label to a UIKit view

## When to choose
- you are building an iOS app in Objective-C or Swift with UIKit and want a drop-in animated label
- you want a lightweight, MIT-licensed text animation without heavy dependencies

## When to avoid
- you need text animation in SwiftUI or on Android or the web
- your project targets modern iOS only and you prefer actively maintained Swift libraries

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: animation, ui-components
- domain: mobile-development, frontend
- platform: -
- tags: uikit, objective-c, text-animation, uilabel, cocoapods, ios, mobile

## Member repositories
- zipme/RQShineLabel (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:58.231725+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 2026-08-30T03:06:51.018443+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/zipme/RQShineLabel (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:58.231725+00:00, sha 25ea243dafcd)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.