vphone-cli
What it does
An editorial selection.
Runs a virtual iPhone on an Apple Silicon Mac using Virtualization.framework and Apple's PCC research VMs.
Why it is listed
For iOS security research, reverse engineering and debugging. The README says the project has no crypto token and calls any token using its name a scam.
GitHub describes it as: Run a virtual iPhone on an Apple Silicon Mac.
Counts were observed on 27/10/2026, 23:15:40 UTC. Observations older than 36 hours are excluded from current movement rankings.
Repository at a glance
- Stars
- 16,074
- Forks
- 1,906
- Open issues
- 6
- Merged PRs
- 373
- Commits, last 30 days
- 784
- Stars, 7 days
- unavailable
- Stars, 30 days
- unavailable
Counts observed on 27/10/2026, 23:15:40 UTC. Growth uses complete dated windows; see Methodology.
History
Project details
Explore and get started
Use the project's own documentation for supported platforms, dependencies and installation steps. The README and release notes are maintained by Lakr233.
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Development context
These are observations of work in the repository. They do not establish quality, security or support commitments.
- Total commits on default branch
- 1,385
- Open pull requests
- 2
- Closed issues, lifetime
- 272
- Median time to close an issue
- 0.3 days
- Median time to merge a pull request
- 0.1 days
Close and merge times use up to 20 most recently updated closed issues or merged pull requests. They omit unresolved work and are context, not a maintenance score. Sample limits.
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