# overboming/ZCAnimatedLabel

UILabel replacement with fine-grain appear/disappear animation

Repository: https://github.com/overboming/ZCAnimatedLabel
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/zcanimatedlabel
Language: Objective-C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2021-02-16T16:12:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4193, "days_push": 2024, "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 2268, forks 214 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:32.913166+00:00)

## What it is
ZCAnimatedLabel is an Objective-C UILabel replacement for iOS that provides fine-grained appear/disappear animations for text. It supports grouping animation by character, word, or line, and can be extended by subclassing to create custom effects using Core Graphics or CALayer-based rendering.

## Use cases
- animate text appearing character by character in an iOS app
- create a UILabel with fall or spring animation effects
- build animated intro titles with 3D text transforms
- add per-word or per-line text reveal animations
- customize text animation drawing with Core Graphics
- implement performant text animations that only redraw changed areas

## When to choose
- you need fine-grained, customizable text appear/disappear animations on iOS
- you want to animate text grouped by character, word, or line
- you need 3D or geometry transforms on text via a layer-based mode
- performance matters and you want to control the redraw area

## When to avoid
- you are building for Android, web, or cross-platform targets
- you need Swift-first or SwiftUI text animation solutions
- you only need simple static text display without animation
- you require actively maintained libraries with recent updates

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

## Member repositories
- overboming/ZCAnimatedLabel (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:32.913166+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 2026-08-30T02:42:02.425300+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/overboming/ZCAnimatedLabel (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:32.913166+00:00, sha cfa0d53fec67)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.