# touchHLE/touchHLE

> A high-level emulator for early iOS apps (iPhone OS 2.x–4.0.x), written in Rust. Instead of emulating hardware, it reimplements system frameworks (Foundation, UIKit, OpenGL ES, OpenAL) to run old games on modern desktops and Android.

- Magnitude: 1.6 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 3,957 total · +2 stars today, ≈ 4 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Games & graphics · Language: Rust · License: MPL-2.0 · Created: 2022-12-01 · Last push: 2026-10-01
- GitHub: https://github.com/touchHLE/touchHLE · Homepage: https://touchhle.org/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/touchHLE/touchHLE

## Useful for

- Run an old iOS game on Windows or macOS without old hardware
- Check a specific .ipa's compatibility in the touchHLE app database
- Build the emulator from source for Linux or Apple Silicon

## Why it’s here

- 2 stars so far today, about 4 expected by the end of the day.
- GitHub Trending Rust today: #9, +8 stars.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @StephenDev0 (345 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: 340
- Issues and pull requests: 529
- Watchers: 65
- Average over the last week: 4 per day
- Usual pace: 2 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: v0.3.0 (2026-10-01)

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

2026-09-03 … 2026-10-02: 2, 4, 5, 2, 2, 3, 2, 1, 3, 3, 2, 4, 0, 4, 3, 1, 0, 5, 2, 0, 2, 2, 2, 0, 5, 2, 1, 6, 8, 2

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending Rust today: #9, +8 stars

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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 2026-10-02 14:11 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.