majd/ipatool
Command-line tool that allows you to search for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and macOS apps on the App Store, and download .ipa or macOS .pkg app packages.
12.3k stars · 1.1k forks · Go
Quick update: star history is from the full report of Oct 25, 2026.
Caution
One person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 89% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 15
- Human commits, 90 days
- 76
- Human commits, 365 days
- 94
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 4%
- Last commit
- Nov 11, 2026 (14 hours ago)
- Last human commit
- Nov 11, 2026 (14 hours ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 7
- Last release
- Nov 11, 2026 (14 hours ago)
- Median PR merge time
- under an hour
Responsiveness: of 29 recent issues, 90% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 4 days.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 94 since Nov 12, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 32
Top committers
- majd: 89% of commits
- AhmedBafkir: 1% of commits
- dajiaohuang: 1% of commits
- Dev-next-gen: 1% of commits
- gitevedev: 1% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence medium
Bursts
- Sep 6, 2021 to Sep 6, 2021: about 14 more stars than usual, peak 15 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Feb 23, 2022 to Mar 3, 2022: about 394 more stars than usual, peak 121 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 23, 2022 to Mar 25, 2022: about 118 more stars than usual, peak 80 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 8, 2022 to Jun 11, 2022: about 55 more stars than usual, peak 25 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Oct 4, 2023 to Oct 7, 2023: about 110 more stars than usual, peak 48 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 27, 2025 to Mar 4, 2025: about 140 more stars than usual, peak 55 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Nov 26, 2025 to Nov 29, 2025: about 123 more stars than usual, peak 46 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 7, 2026 to Feb 11, 2026: about 116 more stars than usual, peak 36 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 28, 2026 to Sep 7, 2026: about 989 more stars than usual, peak 314 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
- Oct 9, 2026 to Oct 11, 2026: about 90 more stars than usual, peak 50 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
- Star history from the full report of Oct 25, 2026; this update did not re-read it.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
- github.com/majd/ipatool/v2 (GO): latest v2.8.1, published Nov 11, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 4.1 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: majd/ipatool, deps.dev: Go github.com/majd/ipatool/v2
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- Nov 12, 2026: Caution
- Nov 11, 2026: Caution
- Nov 10, 2026: Caution
- Nov 9, 2026: Caution
- Nov 8, 2026: Caution
- Nov 7, 2026: Caution
- Nov 6, 2026: Caution
- Nov 5, 2026: Caution
- Nov 4, 2026: Caution
- Nov 3, 2026: Caution