Command-line tool that allows you to search for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and macOS apps on the App Store, and download .ipa or macOS .pkg app packages.
majd/ipatool has 12k stars and gained +282 of them in the last 7 days, a 2.4% change. It is written in Go, grouped under devtools, security, released under MIT. A merged pull request waits a median of 4m from opening to merge, measured on 55 pull requests. Last pushed on 25 Oct 2026.
Star growth per time window: stars gained, growth percentage, the star count at the start of the period, and whether the figure was measured from our own two-hour intraday snapshots, daily snapshots, or GitHub’s rebuilt star history, for the last 6 hours, the last 12 hours, today, the last 7 days, the last 30 days, and the last year. A period with no current measurement is left blank rather than shown as zero.
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Stars gained
Growth
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Last 6 hours
0
0.0%
12k at 06:40
Intraday snapshots, measured 12:00
Last 12 hours
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—
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Not measured
Today
0
0.0%
12k on 27 Oct 2026
Daily snapshots
Last 7 days
+282
2.4%
11.7k on 18 Oct 2026
Weekly history
Last 30 days
+643
5.6%
11.4k on 27 Sep 2026
Weekly history
Last year
+4.5k
58.7%
7.6k on 26 Oct 2025
Weekly history
A period with no current measurement is left blank: a delta needs a measurement at both ends of the period. The 6- and 12-hour periods need two intraday measurements exactly that far apart, the day-and-longer periods need snapshots on both dates, and the last year also needs star history from a year ago, which we keep for one year.
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Star history
Weekly, from GitHub's stargazers history, over a 30-day window.
22 Sep 2026First seen on GitHub Trending · rank 4· 474 days later
30 Sep 2026Entered our index· 8 days later
Stars: 11.4k when it entered our index, 12k on the last capture we hold (26 Oct 2026), so +552 in that span. That span is our own measurement window, not a claim about what happened before it.
Its most recent thread before Trending is more than 90 days older than that day, so the two are not the same story and we do not claim lead time.
We hold 4 mentions for it, the oldest dated 9 Dec 2021 and the first written into our database on 27 Oct 2026. Thread dates come from the source, not from when we fetched them.
What the web says
4 items so far: 4 on Hacker News, 0 on Reddit; 0 in the last 7 days, 0 in the last 30. Checked by the pipeline, which re-scans trending repositories every few hours. Last check .
Since March these libraries, along with others, have all been [unable to use Apple iOS app store authentication blocking any downloads. This is a usual cat and mouse game of Apple fixing/patching/changing and various third parties trying to keep up. For some reason this time was different and Apple went back on their changes after 3 months. There are two main libraries, among others ipatool https…
https://github.com/blacktop/ipsw/issues/668#issuecomment-290... I saw this hilarious exchange in one of the issues covering Apple’s recent changes that make it impossible to download IPA files. Recreating an iPhone’s authentication to Apple App Store is a bit of a cat and mouse game. Apple recently changed it’s backend, so now dozens of projects are trying to find ways to circumvent or crack the…
Every position is against the 61,796 repositories measured on 26 Oct 2026 — not global GitHub figures.
This repository has not been picked up by the newest daily run yet, so these figures are from 26 Oct 2026 (yesterday). They will refresh on its next run.
