# majd/ipatool

> A Go CLI tool for searching App Store apps and downloading their .ipa or .pkg packages for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, visionOS and macOS. Requires an Apple Account configured for the App Store.

- Magnitude: 1.7 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 12,117 total · +16 stars measured 2026-11-02, 00:13–23:10 UTC
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Go · License: MIT · Created: 2021-05-22 · Last push: 2026-10-25
- GitHub: https://github.com/majd/ipatool · Homepage: https://ipatool.dev · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/majd/ipatool

## Useful for

- Download an app's .ipa from the App Store for analysis or backup
- List an app's versions and fetch metadata for a specific version
- Automate package downloads in a script using --non-interactive

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-02 (UTC), 00:13–23:10: 12101 → 12117 stars (+16). This is the change over that interval.
- Interest is fading: the two-day pace is 57% of the previous week and a half.

## 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: 1,066
- Issues and pull requests: 624
- Watchers: 72
- Average over the last week: 16 per day
- Usual pace: 27 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v2.7.0 (2026-10-09)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: 6, 10, 13, 11, 7, 50, 32, 47, 15, 19, 23, 21, 16, 12, 20, 25, 21, 20, 25, 40, 34, 54, 51, 20, 17, 19, 13, 14, 16, 16

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

10-17 2.4, 10-18 2.7, 10-19 2.9, 10-20 2.9, 10-21 1.9, 10-22 2.0, 10-26 2.8, 10-27 3.0, 10-28 2.2, 10-29 1.9, 10-30 1.9, 10-31 1.6, 11-01 1.7, 11-02 1.8

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
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 2026-11-02 23:16 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.