onevcat/kingfisher vs telegrammessenger/telegram-ios
onevcat/kingfisher shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, kingfisher shows healthier maintenance signals than telegram-ios. kingfisher rates Healthy overall while telegram-ios rates Mixed. kingfisher last saw a commit 1 month ago with 8+ active contributors, while telegram-ios last saw a commit 1 month ago with 2+ active contributors. 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
telegrammessenger/telegram-ios →
Missing license — unclear to depend on
no license — legally unclear
no license — can't legally use code
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code
- ⚠Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 54% of recent commits
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ✓Last commit 3d ago
- ✓2 active contributors
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| kingfisher | telegram-ios | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 24,322 | 8,506 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 1mo ago |
| License | MIT | — |
| Open issues | 173 | 649 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | — |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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