# xtool-org/xtool

> Cross-platform Xcode replacement: builds SwiftPM packages into iOS apps, signs and installs them on Linux, Windows, and macOS. Also ships the XKit library for interacting with Apple Developer Services and iOS devices.

- Magnitude: 7.7 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 8,611 total · +106 stars measured 2026-10-13, 10:53–12:25 UTC, ≈ 425 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Swift · License: MIT · Created: 2024-11-17 · Last push: 2026-10-06
- GitHub: https://github.com/xtool-org/xtool · Homepage: https://xtool.sh · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/xtool-org/xtool

## Useful for

- Build an iOS app from a SwiftPM package on Linux without Xcode
- Install and launch an ipa on a connected iOS device from the CLI
- Automate Apple Developer Services workflows using the XKit library

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-13 (UTC), 10:53–12:25: 8505 → 8611 stars (+106). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +425 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 8× that of the previous week and a half.
- Elevated gains were measured on the last 3 completed UTC days in a row. Continued growth is not guaranteed.
- GitHub Trending today: #9, +936 stars.
- About 71 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## 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: 354
- Issues and pull requests: 314
- Watchers: 37
- Average over the last week: 468 per day
- Usual pace: 4 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 58
- Latest release: 1.21.0 (2026-10-05)

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

2026-09-14 … 2026-10-13: 2, 4, 5, 5, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 0, 7, 1, 2, 1, 6, 4, 5, 4, 4, 3, 1, 5, 10, 10, 6, 388, 698, 528, 1220, 106

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending today: #9, +936 stars

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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 2026-10-13 12:43 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.