# kuscholar/iDeck

> iDeck runs Valve's real Steam client in Big Picture mode on iPhone and iPad, executing compatible Windows PC games locally via Madeira, Wine, FEX and Metal without streaming from a gaming PC.

- Magnitude: 4.8 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 138 total · +4 stars measured 2026-10-27, 00:34–02:01 UTC, ≈ 66 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Games & graphics · Language: C · License: GPL-3.0 · Created: 2026-10-24 · Last push: 2026-10-26
- GitHub: https://github.com/kuscholar/iDeck · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/kuscholar/iDeck

## Useful for

- Sideload the alpha IPA and test Steam Big Picture on an iPhone
- Run compatible Windows Steam games locally on iOS with a controller
- Verify JIT and signing prerequisites before launching Steam

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-27 (UTC), 00:34–02:01: 134 → 138 stars (+4). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +66 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 3 days old and already has 138 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #149.
- About 7 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @xXJSONDeruloXx (467 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 5
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 51 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 5
- Latest release: v0.1.3-alpha.2 (2026-10-26)

## Stars per day, last 4 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-24 … 2026-10-27: 12, 55, 71, 4

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #149

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-27 02:12 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.