The best YYKit alternatives
3 tools that do a similar job to YYKit, 3 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
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SDWebImage
Open source · MIT · ★ 25.6k
Loads, caches and displays web images on Apple platforms, with a UIImageView-style API.
Best for: iOS or macOS app developers who need to show remote images in lists or grids; Teams that want caching, progressive loading and image transformations handled by a tested library
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Kingfisher
Open source · MIT · ★ 24.4k
A Swift library that downloads, caches, and displays images from the web in apps.
Best for: iOS or macOS developers who need to show remote images in lists or detail screens; Teams building SwiftUI apps that display images from URLs
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IGListKit
Open source · MIT · ★ 13.1k
A Swift-compatible Objective-C framework for building data-driven UICollectionView lists on iOS.
Best for: iOS developers building list or feed screens with UICollectionView; Teams who want a reusable, decoupled diffing approach for their models
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to YYKit. We don't take payment for placement.