# videolan/vlc-ios

VLC for iOS/iPadOS and tvOS official mirror

Repository: https://github.com/videolan/vlc-ios
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vlc-ios
Language: Objective-C
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: vlc, objective-c, swift
Last push: 2026-08-07T08:38:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 75/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3132, "days_push": 26, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1290, forks 339 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:15.383117+00:00)

## What it is
The official VLC media player application for iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS, maintained by VideoLAN. It is written in Objective-C and Swift and built on top of VLCKit, a libvlc wrapper.

## Use cases
- play videos on iphone or ipad
- stream media to apple tv
- play local video files on ios
- watch movies with subtitles on ipad
- play audio files on ios
- open-source media player for apple devices

## When to choose
- you want to contribute to or build the official VLC app for iOS/iPadOS/tvOS
- you need a full-featured, free media player on Apple mobile devices
- you want to embed or study a mature libvlc-based iOS player

## When to avoid
- you need a media player for Android or desktop platforms
- you want a lightweight embeddable playback library rather than a full app (use VLCKit directly)
- you require a permissively licensed codebase to copy into proprietary apps (license is non-standard)

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, audio-processing, gui
- domain: media, cross-platform, apple-ecosystem
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: vlc, media-player, tvos, objective-c, swift, vlckit, mirror-repository, ios, mobile

## Member repositories
- videolan/vlc-ios (main) score 75

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:15.383117+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 2026-08-30T04:55:41.224236+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/videolan/vlc-ios (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:15.383117+00:00, sha 865b420c8799)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.