SDWebImageSwiftUI VS Kingfisher

Compare SDWebImageSwiftUI vs Kingfisher and see what are their differences.

SDWebImageSwiftUI

SwiftUI Image loading and Animation framework powered by SDWebImage (by SDWebImage)

Kingfisher

A lightweight, pure-Swift library for downloading and caching images from the web. (by onevcat)
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SDWebImageSwiftUI Kingfisher
4 19
1,968 22,742
2.0% -
7.8 8.4
11 days ago 2 days ago
Swift Swift
MIT License MIT License
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SDWebImageSwiftUI

Posts with mentions or reviews of SDWebImageSwiftUI. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-28.
  • Good remote Image caching strategy?
    2 projects | /r/SwiftUI | 28 May 2022
    I have a vertical scroll view with multiple horizontal scroll views with in all with similar thumbnails and detail view when clicked on it similar to you. I used lazy stacks and the web image package and it works amazing. I used to use cached Async image thinking it was better but recently swapped to webimage and was blown away how well it worked. Also you can use gifs with it cause it’s great (if that’s something that floats your boat) here is url https://github.com/SDWebImage/SDWebImageSwiftUI
  • What is your favorite SwiftUI library?
    11 projects | /r/SwiftUI | 31 Dec 2021
    Don’t know if its most useful or favorite. Don’t know if I’ll use it once I update to iOS 15 though

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.
  • Question about Apple's review
    6 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 17 May 2023
    The 3rd party library I use GRDB SwiftyUserDefaults Kingfisher SwiftDate Popovers
  • How do you guys handle image caching?
    5 projects | /r/reactnative | 6 Dec 2022
    In native iOS, most people use Kingfisher, and i'd love to have something as good as that on our RN app. Perhaps just some pure JS library that you could plug on the existing image component, and that would handle the saving-to-disk and fetching of the image?
  • Cracking the iOS Interview
    10 projects | dev.to | 10 Sep 2022
    Kingfisher - Download and cache images
  • Almost Netflix: An iOS Netflix Clone built with Appwrite
    2 projects | dev.to | 8 Feb 2022
    Make sure the proper target is selected in the Add to target in the dialog as shown above, then click Add Package button. The package should successfully be added to your project. Now following the same process, this time search for the Kingfisher package using the GitHub URL as the following https://github.com/onevcat/Kingfisher.
  • Awesome macOS Libraries List
    76 projects | dev.to | 21 Jan 2022
    Kingfisher - A lightweight, pure-Swift library for downloading and caching images from the web. Language: Swift.
  • What is your favorite SwiftUI library?
    11 projects | /r/SwiftUI | 31 Dec 2021
  • How can I get the image from a URL and make it UIImage?
    2 projects | /r/swift | 19 Oct 2021
    Urlsession is the native approach, but there are also libraries that asynchronously download and show the images like SDWebImage or Kingfisher
  • The Composable Architecture tutorial
    6 projects | dev.to | 23 Jul 2021
    // swift-tools-version:5.3 // The swift-tools-version declares the minimum version of Swift required to build this package. import PackageDescription let package = Package( name: "DogBreedsComponent", platforms: [.iOS(.v14)], products: [ .library( name: "DogBreedsComponent", targets: ["DogBreedsComponent"] ), ], dependencies: [ // 1. .package( name: "swift-composable-architecture", url: "https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-composable-architecture.git", .exact("0.17.0") ), // 2. .package( name: "Kingfisher", url: "https://github.com/onevcat/Kingfisher", .exact("6.2.1") ) ], targets: [ .target( name: "DogBreedsComponent", dependencies: [ .product(name: "ComposableArchitecture", package: "swift-composable-architecture"), .product(name: "Kingfisher", package: "Kingfisher") ] ), .testTarget( name: "DogBreedsComponentTests", dependencies: [ "DogBreedsComponent", .product(name: "ComposableArchitecture", package: "swift-composable-architecture") ] ), ] )
  • How do you handle fetching data from REST API and caching?
    3 projects | /r/SwiftUI | 31 May 2021
    Image loading, displaying and caching is a very similar problem and it seems there are some pretty good solutions available (e.g. Kingfisher), so I'm quite surprised that I'm struggling to find a popular/reliable/stable solution for (REST) API data.
  • Library Suggestion needed for Image, Video and GIF
    2 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 27 May 2021
    https://github.com/onevcat/Kingfisher is one of many.

What are some alternatives?

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

SDWebImage - Asynchronous image downloader with cache support as a UIImageView category

Nuke - Image loading system

AlamofireImage - AlamofireImage is an image component library for Alamofire

SwiftSVG - A simple, performant, and lightweight SVG parser

AsyncImageView - [DEPRECATED]

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

ImageSlideshow - Swift image slideshow with circular scrolling, timer and full screen viewer

HanekeSwift - A lightweight generic cache for iOS written in Swift with extra love for images.

FastImageCache - iOS library for quickly displaying images while scrolling

APNGKit - High performance and delightful way to play with APNG format in iOS.

Toucan - Fabulous Image Processing in Swift