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FLEXTool
FLEX
Objective-C2015–2020
FLEXTool / FLEX

FLEX

An in-app debugging and exploration tool for iOS

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14.6KGitHub stars
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What it is

An in-app debugging and exploration tool for iOS

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-09-18 08:10:44 UTC to 2020-05-12 00:22:53 UTC.

0122015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Wowfunhappy·Mar 26, 2019
Creating Cydia Substrate certainly involved a ton of reverse engineering, but I get the sense creating tweaks on top of Substrate is a lot closer to Greasemonkey. There are also tools like Flipboard Explorer[1] that make it easy to see how an iOS view is constructed and what needs to be modified, very similar to a web browser's inspector. There's a line in a blog post[2] Saurik (Substrate's creator) wrote a while back: > In general, I also believe the algorithms for reverse engineering have started getting better faster than the technology behind binary obfuscation. [...] I believe that we will find the distinction between closed source and open source crumbling—not just for people like comex and myself, but for the average developer. He also references a longer talk he gave on the subject. Disclaimer that I haven't watched it. https://w
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ww.youtube.com/watch?v=D91jVZ4Z6og Note that all of this absolutely still requires programming though. And Flex is absolutely not a programming tool, although the wealth of options it opens up is very substantial, since you can modify the return value of just about any method. --- [1] https://github.com/Flipboard/FLEX (Note: Flipboard Explorer's abbreviated name is "FLEX". It has no relation to the other software I mentioned, "Flex".) [2] http://www.saurik.com/id/22
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