OnlyPictures
A simple and flexible way to add source of overlapping circular pictures, currently supports horizontal overlapping or distant pictures with great layout flexibility. (by KiranJasvanee)
FastImageCache
iOS library for quickly displaying images while scrolling (by path)
| OnlyPictures | FastImageCache | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |
| 674 | 8,076 | |
| 0.0% | 0.0% | |
| 1.8 | 0.0 | |
| over 4 years ago | almost 3 years ago | |
| Swift | Objective-C | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
OnlyPictures
Posts with mentions or reviews of OnlyPictures.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-22.
FastImageCache
Posts with mentions or reviews of FastImageCache.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-07-21.
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Memory Efficiency in iOS: Reducing footprint and beyond
Kingfisher and AsyncImage decompress images into dirty memory, and images are big. They're fairly CPU and memory inefficient from that perspective.
FastImageCache uses memory mapping and is very efficient, but it's 10 years old: https://github.com/path/FastImageCache
What are some alternatives?
When comparing OnlyPictures and FastImageCache you can also consider the following projects:
PINRemoteImage - A thread safe, performant, feature rich image fetcher
TGLParallaxCarousel - A lightweight 3D Linear Carousel with parallax effect
Kingfisher - A lightweight, pure-Swift library for downloading and caching images from the web.
SDWebImage - Asynchronous image downloader with cache support as a UIImageView category
Banana - Swift Image Slider library for iOS