LicensePlist

LicensePlist solves a boring but mandatory iOS chore: showing the open source licenses your app depends on. Apple expects you to credit the libraries you bundle, and doing it by hand is tedious and error-prone. This command-line tool scans your CocoaPods, Carthage, and Swift Package Manager dependencies, then generates the Settings bundle that displays every license inside your app's settings screen. Free and MIT licensed.

Setup is trivial. Install through Homebrew, CocoaPods, Mint, or Swift Package Manager, run license-plist in your project, and drop the generated folder into your Settings bundle. It caches results and skips work when nothing changed, so it runs in well under a second. Wire it into a build phase or CI and you can forget it exists, which is exactly what you want from a compliance tool.

Anyone shipping an iOS app with third-party dependencies should use this. There is no team-size calculus and no paywall: it is free at every scale. The only reason to skip it is if you have zero dependencies, which almost no real app does.

The catch is scope. This is iOS only and it only handles license attribution. It will not audit licenses for legal risk or flag a GPL library sneaking into your closed-source app. It lists what you use; deciding whether you should use it is still on you.