ipasim vs aah

Our great sponsors

InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale

WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS

SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews

Our great sponsors

ipasim		aah
	Project
3	Mentions	1
779	Stars	167
0.6%	Growth	-
2.5	Activity	10.0
9 months ago	Latest Commit	over 3 years ago
C++	Language	Objective-C
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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.

ipasim

Posts with mentions or reviews of ipasim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-22.

Emulating an iPod Touch 1G and iPhoneOS 1.0 using QEMU (Part I)
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2022

I was working on emulating apps directly [1] by translating API calls from iOS to Windows APIs using WinObjC [2]. Unfortunately, WinObjC got abandoned and didn't even contain as many APIs as I thought, so the result cannot emulate complex apps. But it was fun.
[1] https://github.com/ipasimulator/ipasim
[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC
Is it possible to run IOS games on android? I want to play Oceanhorn 2, but its not available on android but iPhone.
1 project | /r/EmulationOnAndroid | 20 Sep 2021

Here, this is a theoretically dead project! https://github.com/ipasimulator/ipasim
GitHub renders Markdown in commit messages
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Apr 2021

At least code snippets in backticks. Not many people seem to use them but it can be seen for example in my repository: https://github.com/ipasimulator/ipasim

aah

Posts with mentions or reviews of aah. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-22.

Emulating an iPod Touch 1G and iPhoneOS 1.0 using QEMU (Part I)
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2022

https://github.com/zydeco/aah
I abandoned it when macs with Apple Silicon were announced, only some simple apps could run (GeekBench would crash through the Lua test iirc)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ipasim and aah you can also consider the following projects:

yuzu - Nintendo Switch emulator

WinObjC - Objective-C for Windows

Mapbox GL - Interactive, thoroughly customizable maps in native Android, iOS, macOS, Node.js, and Qt applications, powered by vector tiles and OpenGL

darling - Darwin/macOS emulation layer for Linux

macemu - Experiments with BasiliskII on iOS and macOS

omapsapp - 🍃 Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by MapsWithMe (MapsMe) founders and our community. No ads, no tracking, no data collection, no crapware. Please donate to support the development!

citra - A Nintendo 3DS Emulator

react-native-mmkv-storage - An ultra fast (0.0002s read/write), small & encrypted mobile key-value storage framework for React Native written in C++ using JSI

BackgroundMusic - Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.

Provenance - iOS & tvOS multi-emulator frontend, supporting various Atari, Bandai, NEC, Nintendo, Sega, SNK and Sony console systems… Get Started: https://wiki.provenance-emu.com |