onevcat/kingfisher vs signalapp/signal-ios
onevcat/kingfisher shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, kingfisher shows healthier maintenance signals than signal-ios. kingfisher rates Healthy overall while signal-ios rates Mixed. kingfisher last saw a commit 1 month ago with 8+ active contributors, while signal-ios last saw a commit 1 month ago with 10+ active contributors. kingfisher is MIT-licensed while signal-ios is AGPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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onevcat/kingfisher →
Healthy across all four use cases
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 90% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 5d ago
- ✓8 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
signalapp/signal-ios →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓10 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 35% of recent commits)
- ✓AGPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| kingfisher | signal-ios | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 24,322 | 12,058 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 1mo ago |
| License | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 173 | 127 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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