Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-10-05 15:20 UTC

majd / ipatool

Command-line tool that allows you to search for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, visionOS, and macOS apps on the App Store, and download .ipa or macOS .pkg app packages.

GoMIT★ 11,487 stars⑂ 962 forkssince May 2021View on GitHub ↗

KindCommand-line toolLibraryhow this is determined

#ios #appstore #apple #ipa #itunes #cli #macos #reverse-engineering #security #swift #tool #go #command-line #command-line-tool #golang #golang-library #research #visionos

majd/ipatool holds a health index of 78 out of 100, placing it in the Good band. It scores highest on Vitality (78/100) and lowest on Security (50/100). It was last updated 3 days ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

overall / 100

Good

Software health index

Metrics are grouped into weighted categories on one standardized 1–100 scale. Overall starts as their weighted mean, calibrated against the distribution of the public record so bands carry percentile meaning; when public evidence triggers the High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy, the rating is adjusted and receives an At Risk ceiling of 34.

Exceptional93-100The record's top tier (≈ top 5%); essentially all checked criteria met

Excellent80-92Strong across the board; minor gaps

Good65-79Healthy; gaps are limited and manageable

Moderate50-64Acceptable with notable gaps; review recommended

Weak35-49Material weaknesses across several areas

At Risk20-34Significant weaknesses; adoption warrants caution

Critical1-19Severe problems (abandoned, single-maintainer, no hygiene)

Score profile

Each axis is a category. The shape matters more than the average — a healthy subject fills the whole shape, while a spike-and-crater profile means strength in one dimension is masking risk in another.

The weighted overall 67 is calibrated to 78 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

MajdPersonal account

715 followers17 public repossince Apr 2012

This repository is owned by a personal account. A single-owner project carries more continuity risk than an organization-backed one.

Package ecosystems

Registry	Package	Version	Downloads / mo	Versions	Last publish
Go	github.com/majd/ipatool/v2	v2.6.0	-	23	21 days ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping?

78Good · 21% of overall

Development activity

74Good

How it's scored

36/36	Push recency — last push 3 days ago
11.1/36	Commit cadence — 16/52 weeks with commits
16.6/18	Commit volume — 70 commits in the last year
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 14 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

commits_last_year	70
human_commit_share	0.94
days_since_last_push	3
active_weeks_last_year	16

Release discipline

83Excellent

How it's scored

27/27	Ships releases — 38 releases published
36/36	Release recency — latest release 21 days ago
19.8/27	Release cadence — a release every ~66.7 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.

Inputs used

releases_count	38
latest_release_tag	v2.6.0
releases_from_tags	no
days_since_latest_release	21
mean_days_between_releases	66.7

Community & Adoption

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?

74Good · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

95Exceptional

How it's scored

60/60	Stars — 11,487 stars
24.9/25	Forks — 962 forks
10.4/15	Watchers — 76 watchers

Inputs used

forks	962
stars	11,487
watchers	76
growth_state	unverified
growth_factor_pct	100
growth_unverified_reason	no_history

Community health

50Moderate

How it's scored

22.5/22.5	README
22.5/22.5	License — recognized license (MIT)
0/18	CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5	Code of conduct
0/7.2	Issue template
0/6.3	PR template

Inputs used

has_readme	yes
has_license	yes
readme_badges	3
has_contributing	no
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	no
readme_badge_services	shields.io
has_pull_request_template	no

Sustainability & Governance

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?

62Moderate · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

26At Risk

How it's scored

9/54	Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
3.4/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 85% of commits
13.5/13.5	Contributor breadth — 31 contributors
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 0 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

bus_factor	1
contributors_sampled	31
top_contributor_share	0.851

Issue & PR responsiveness

73Good

How it's scored

40/42	Issue resolution — 95% of issues closed
23.4/30	PR acceptance — 161/206 decided PRs merged
0/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
0/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 0/26 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

merged_prs	161
open_issues	18
closed_issues	367
prs_merged_7d	8
prs_decided_7d	8
prs_merged_30d	32
prs_decided_30d	32
issue_closed_ratio	0.953
closed_unmerged_prs	45
first_time_authors_30d	0
first_time_prs_merged_30d	0
first_time_prs_decided_30d	0

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.

Ownership & stewardship

64Moderate

How it's scored

10/30	Ownership backing — personal (user) account
0/20	Verified domain — not applicable to user accounts
20.5/25	Owner reach — 715 followers of majd
21.1/25	Track record — 17 public repos, account ~14 yr old

Inputs used

followers	715
owner_type	User
is_verified	—
owner_login	majd
public_repos	17
account_age_days	5,286

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Verified domain. Remaining weights renormalized.

Package maintenance

100Exceptional

How it's scored

25/25	Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on go
35/35	Publish recency — latest publish 21 days ago
20/20	Version history — 23 published versions
20/20	Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked

Inputs used

packages	github.com/majd/ipatool/v2
ecosystems	go
any_deprecated	no
min_days_since_publish	21

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

70Good · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

84Excellent

How it's scored

24/24	CI workflows — 5 workflow(s)
24/24	Tests present
16/16	Linter config — .golangci.yml
0/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4	.editorconfig
20/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 26 out of 26 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

has_ci	yes
has_tests	yes
has_editorconfig	no
has_linter_config	yes
has_precommit_config	no

Documentation

50Moderate

How it's scored

30/30	README
0/25	Documentation directory
0/15	Documentation / homepage site
10/10	Repository description
10/10	Topics — 18 topics
0/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	ios, appstore, apple, ipa, itunes, cli, macos, reverse-engineering, security, swift, tool, go, command-line, command-line-tool, golang, golang-library, research, visionos
has_wiki	no
homepage	—
docs_site	—
has_readme	yes
has_docs_dir	no
has_description	yes

Security

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?

50Moderate · 16% of overall

Security posture

40Weak

How it's scored

7.5/7.5	Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
2.2/7.5	Branch-Protection — branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
2.5/2.5	CI-Tests — 26 out of 26 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0/2.5	CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0/7.5	Code-Review — Found 0/26 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
0/2.5	Contributors — project has 0 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 0
10/10	Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
7.5/7.5	Dependency-Update-Tool — update tool detected
0/5	Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5	License — license file detected
7.5/7.5	Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 14 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
0/5	Packaging — no data
0/5	Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
0/5	SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0/5	Security-Policy — security policy file not detected
0/7.5	Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
0/7.5	Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
0.8/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 9 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	17
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	1
scorecard_aggregate	4

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Packaging. Remaining weights renormalized.

Dependency advisories

89Excellent

How it's scored

26.6/35	Direct dependencies free of known advisories — 1 affected: github.com/klauspost/compress v1.18.6 (unknown)
0/25	Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope
40/40	No advisories left outstanding — no advisory has been public longer than 90 days

Inputs used

source	osv
advisories	9
affected_packages	5
assessed_packages	70
unassessed_packages	0
affected_by_severity	unknown 5
direct_affected_packages	1

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 70 resolved dependencies against OSV. This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so the repository dependency graph was assessed instead. That graph mixes development and test pins with shipped dependencies, so only the declared runtime dependencies are scored; transitive findings are reported as context and excluded from the score. Reachability is not analyzed.

AI Readiness

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight (4%): agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but a repository with none can still reach 100/100.

68Good · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

40Weak

How it's scored

0/45	Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
39.7/40	Legible commit history — 70 of 94 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	no
llms_txt_url	—
legible_history_share	0.745
agent_instruction_files	—
agent_instruction_max_bytes	—

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

77Good

How it's scored

12.6/18	One-command bootstrap — go.mod (toolchain convention, no task runner)
22/22	Automated tests
11/11	Lint / format config — .golangci.yml
11/11	Static type checking — Go (statically typed)
10/10	Reproducible environment — lockfile
2/10	Demonstrated agent practice — 1 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited
8/8	Automated maintenance — 6 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

has_nix	no
has_tests	yes
lockfiles	go.sum
has_dockerfile	no
typed_language	yes
bootstrap_files	—
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	yes
typecheck_configs	—
agent_commit_share	0.01
toolchain_manifests	go.mod
dependency_bot_commit_share	0.06

Code legibility for models

100Exceptional

How it's scored

45/45	Type-checkable code — Go (statically typed)
55/55	Manageable file sizes — 0/202 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	Go
largest_source_bytes	42,637
source_files_sampled	202
oversized_source_files	0

Key facts

11,487GitHub stars

31contributors

70commits, last 12 months

3days since last push

38releases

1bus factor

18open issues

Gopackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 962 ⇿

0Stars

962Forks

38Releases

When each star and fork was added, collected from GitHub and bucketed by day. Cumulative growth sits directly above the daily additions it is made of, so the two read against each other: steady organic accretion looks nothing like an abrupt, short-lived burst. Where that difference is measurable, it is reported as growth authenticity.

Major 2Minor 7Patch 24

Each point covers 5 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 4.0 / 10

4.0aggregate

Independent, tool-agnostic security assessment from the open-source OpenSSF Scorecard. Each check rewards a security practice, not a specific vendor's tool. Checks Scorecard could not determine are marked n/a and excluded from the security score (never counted as zero).Scorecard v5.5.0 · 2026-10-05 15:20 UTC

10	Binary-Artifacts	no binaries found in the repo
3	Branch-Protection	branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
10	CI-Tests	26 out of 26 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0	CII-Best-Practices	no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0	Code-Review	Found 0/26 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
0	Contributors	project has 0 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 0
10	Dangerous-Workflow	no dangerous workflow patterns detected
10	Dependency-Update-Tool	update tool detected
0	Fuzzing	project is not fuzzed
10	License	license file detected
10	Maintained	30 commit(s) and 14 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
n/a	Packaging	packaging workflow not detected
0	Pinned-Dependencies	dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
0	SAST	SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0	Security-Policy	security policy file not detected
0	Signed-Releases	Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
0	Token-Permissions	detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
1	Vulnerabilities	9 existing vulnerabilities detected

Direct dependencies 19

Registry	Package	Version constraint	Manifest
Go	github.com/avast/retry-go	`v3.0.0+incompatible`	go.mod
Go	github.com/blacktop/go-macho	`v1.1.282`	go.mod
Go	github.com/bodgit/sevenzip	`v1.6.3`	go.mod
Go	github.com/byteness/go-keychain	`v0.0.0-20191008050251-8e49817e8af4`	go.mod
Go	github.com/byteness/keyring	`v1.9.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/ebitengine/purego	`v0.10.2`	go.mod
Go	github.com/juju/persistent-cookiejar	`v1.0.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/klauspost/compress	`v1.18.6`	go.mod
Go	github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2	`v2.5.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/onsi/gomega	`v1.24.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/rs/zerolog	`v1.28.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/schollz/progressbar/v3	`v3.13.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/spf13/cobra	`v1.6.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/thediveo/enumflag/v2	`v2.0.1`	go.mod
Go	go.uber.org/mock	`v0.4.0`	go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/sys	`v0.45.0`	go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/term	`v0.43.0`	go.mod
Go	howett.net/plist	`v1.0.0`	go.mod
Go	howett.net/ranger	`v0.0.0-20171016084633-e2e137620847`	go.mod

All dependencies 70

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 19 direct and 51 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
Go	github.com/avast/retry-go	`v3.0.0+incompatible`	direct
Go	github.com/blacktop/go-macho	`v1.1.282`	direct
Go	github.com/bodgit/sevenzip	`v1.6.3`	direct
Go	github.com/byteness/go-keychain	`v0.0.0-20191008050251-8e49817e8af4`	direct
Go	github.com/byteness/keyring	`v1.9.0`	direct
Go	github.com/ebitengine/purego	`v0.10.2`	direct
Go	github.com/juju/persistent-cookiejar	`v1.0.0`	direct
Go	github.com/klauspost/compress	`v1.18.6`	direct
Go	github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2	`v2.5.0`	direct
Go	github.com/onsi/gomega	`v1.24.0`	direct
Go	github.com/rs/zerolog	`v1.28.0`	direct
Go	github.com/schollz/progressbar/v3	`v3.13.1`	direct
Go	github.com/spf13/cobra	`v1.6.1`	direct
Go	github.com/thediveo/enumflag/v2	`v2.0.1`	direct
Go	go.uber.org/mock	`v0.4.0`	direct
Go	golang.org/x/sys	`v0.45.0`	direct
Go	golang.org/x/term	`v0.43.0`	direct
Go	howett.net/plist	`v1.0.0`	direct
Go	howett.net/ranger	`v0.0.0-20171016084633-e2e137620847`	direct
Go	github.com/1password/connect-sdk-go	`v1.5.4-0.20250417152128-c154b387248b`	indirect
Go	github.com/1password/onepassword-sdk-go	`v0.4.1-beta.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/andybalholm/brotli	`v1.2.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/blacktop/go-dwarf	`v1.0.14`	indirect
Go	github.com/bodgit/plumbing	`v1.3.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/bodgit/windows	`v1.0.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/byteness/go-libsecret	`v0.0.0-20260108215642-107379d3dee0`	indirect
Go	github.com/byteness/percent	`v0.2.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/danieljoos/wincred	`v1.2.3`	indirect
Go	github.com/dvsekhvalnov/jose2go	`v1.8.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/dylibso/observe-sdk/go	`v0.0.0-20240828172851-9145d8ad07e1`	indirect
Go	github.com/extism/go-sdk	`v1.7.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-logr/logr	`v1.4.3`	indirect
Go	github.com/gobwas/glob	`v0.2.3`	indirect
Go	github.com/godbus/dbus/v5	`v5.2.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/google/go-cmp	`v0.7.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru/v2	`v2.0.7`	indirect
Go	github.com/ianlancetaylor/demangle	`v0.0.0-20251118225945-96ee0021ea0f`	indirect
Go	github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap	`v1.0.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/juju/go4	`v0.0.0-20160222163258-40d72ab9641a`	indirect
Go	github.com/mattn/go-colorable	`v0.1.13`	indirect
Go	github.com/mattn/go-isatty	`v0.0.17`	indirect
Go	github.com/mattn/go-runewidth	`v0.0.14`	indirect
Go	github.com/mitchellh/colorstring	`v0.0.0-20190213212951-d06e56a500db`	indirect
Go	github.com/noamcohen97/touchid-go	`v0.3.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/opentracing/opentracing-go	`v1.2.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/pierrec/lz4/v4	`v4.1.26`	indirect
Go	github.com/pkg/errors	`v0.9.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/rivo/uniseg	`v0.2.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/spf13/afero	`v1.15.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/spf13/pflag	`v1.0.5`	indirect
Go	github.com/stangelandcl/ppmd	`v0.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/tetratelabs/wabin	`v0.0.0-20230304001439-f6f874872834`	indirect
Go	github.com/tetratelabs/wazero	`v1.11.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/uber/jaeger-client-go	`v2.30.0+incompatible`	indirect
Go	github.com/uber/jaeger-lib	`v2.4.1+incompatible`	indirect
Go	github.com/ulikunitz/xz	`v0.5.15`	indirect
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/proto/otlp	`v1.9.0`	indirect
Go	go.uber.org/atomic	`v1.11.0`	indirect
Go	go4.org	`v0.0.0-20260112195520-a5071408f32f`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/crypto	`v0.52.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/exp	`v0.0.0-20220722155223-a9213eeb770e`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/mod	`v0.35.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/net	`v0.55.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/sync	`v0.20.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/text	`v0.37.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/tools	`v0.44.0`	indirect
Go	google.golang.org/protobuf	`v1.36.11`	indirect
Go	gopkg.in/errgo.v1	`v1.0.1`	indirect
Go	gopkg.in/retry.v1	`v1.0.3`	indirect
Go	gopkg.in/yaml.v3	`v3.0.1`	indirect

Dependency advisories 5

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 70 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 5 carry known advisories, of which 1 are direct.

Package	Version	Relation	Severity	Advisories	Fixed in
github.com/klauspost/compress	`v1.18.6`	direct	unknown	1	`1.18.7`
golang.org/x/crypto	`v0.52.0`	indirect	unknown	4	`0.56.0`
golang.org/x/mod	`v0.35.0`	indirect	unknown	2	`1.27.0-rc.3`
golang.org/x/net	`v0.55.0`	indirect	unknown	1	`1.27.0-rc.3`
golang.org/x/text	`v0.37.0`	indirect	unknown	1	`0.39.0`

An advisory means the version recorded in the dependency graph falls inside an advisory’s affected range. Reachability is not analysed, and the graph includes development and test pins — a finding may concern tooling rather than shipped software.

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