PlayAlways vs FBSimulatorControl

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PlayAlways		FBSimulatorControl
	Project
-	Mentions	3
546	Stars	4,425
-	Growth	0.8%
0.0	Activity	8.4
about 3 years ago	Latest Commit	about 13 hours ago
Swift	Language	Objective-C
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

PlayAlways

Posts with mentions or reviews of PlayAlways. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning PlayAlways yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

FBSimulatorControl

Posts with mentions or reviews of FBSimulatorControl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-10.

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing PlayAlways and FBSimulatorControl you can also consider the following projects:

SuperDelegate - SuperDelegate provides a clean application delegate interface and protects you from bugs in the application lifecycle

appledoc - Objective-c code Apple style documentation set generator.

R.swift - Strong typed, autocompleted resources like images, fonts and segues in Swift projects

fastlane-plugin-appicon - Generate required icon sizes and iconset from a master application icon.

SourceKitten - An adorable little framework and command line tool for interacting with SourceKit.

GDPerformanceView-Swift - Shows FPS, CPU and memory usage, device model, app and iOS versions above the status bar and report FPS, CPU and memory usage via delegate.

Xtrace - Trace Objective-C method calls by class or instance

SwiftKitten

Swizzlean - Swizzlean, an Objective-C Swizzle Helper Class.

Struct - Xcode projects on steroids

Insanity - Meta-programming for Swift, stop writing boilerplate code.

XcodeGen - A Swift command line tool for generating your Xcode project