SDWebImage VS Kingfisher

Compare SDWebImage vs Kingfisher and see what are their differences.

SDWebImage

Asynchronous image downloader with cache support as a UIImageView category (by SDWebImage)

Kingfisher

A lightweight, pure-Swift library for downloading and caching images from the web. (by onevcat)
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SDWebImage Kingfisher
7 19
24,906 22,788
0.6% -
9.0 8.4
9 days ago 6 days ago
Objective-C Swift
MIT License MIT License
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SDWebImage

Posts with mentions or reviews of SDWebImage. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-24.

Kingfisher

Posts with mentions or reviews of Kingfisher. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SDWebImage and Kingfisher you can also consider the following projects:

Nuke - Image loading system

AlamofireImage - AlamofireImage is an image component library for Alamofire

PINRemoteImage - A thread safe, performant, feature rich image fetcher

SwiftSVG - A simple, performant, and lightweight SVG parser

AsyncImageView - [DEPRECATED]

SDWebImageSwiftUI - SwiftUI Image loading and Animation framework powered by SDWebImage

YYWebImage - Asynchronous image loading framework.

FastImageCache - iOS library for quickly displaying images while scrolling