# ibireme/YYText

Powerful text framework for iOS to display and edit rich text.

Repository: https://github.com/ibireme/YYText
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/yytext
Language: Objective-C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-07-16T06:32:03+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3954, "days_push": 778, "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 8870, forks 1841 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:26.091050+00:00)

## What it is
YYText is a powerful iOS text framework for displaying and editing rich text, offering UILabel/UITextView-compatible APIs with high-performance asynchronous layout and rendering. It extends CoreText with attachments, highlights, markdown/emoticon parsing, exclusion paths, and vertical CJK layout.

## Use cases
- render rich text with images and views inline in iOS
- build a high-performance chat or feed text view
- parse markdown and emoticons into attributed strings
- add tappable highlight ranges to text
- support vertical CJK text layout
- create an editable text view with custom keyboard and undo/redo

## When to choose
- you need text rendering performance beyond TextKit on iOS
- you need text attachments with UIView/CALayer or custom highlight interactions
- you need vertical form layout or exclusion paths
- you want UILabel/UITextView API compatibility with richer features

## When to avoid
- you are building for Android, web, or cross-platform targets
- you only need simple text display that UILabel already handles
- you want a framework with frequent updates and modern Swift APIs
- you are starting a new SwiftUI-first project

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, parser, internationalization
- domain: mobile-development, frontend, text-editors
- platform: cpp
- tags: rich-text, coretext, textkit, objective-c, attributed-string, uikit, ios, mobile, swift

## Member repositories
- ibireme/YYText (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:26.091050+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 2026-08-29T17:24:45.714933+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ibireme/YYText (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:26.091050+00:00, sha c2f0031aeacf)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.