At Emerge Tools, we recognize that our success is built on the shoulders of countless open-source contributors. Our products leverage a diverse ecosystem of open-source frameworks, libraries, and tools that form the backbone of modern software development.
While we've always been committed to giving back by open-sourcing some of our own tools, we're taking a step further in our commitment to the open-source community. We're excited to announce that we've joined the Open Source Pledge, an initiative that formalizes our financial support for the projects that superpowers our work.
As part of this pledge, we've already contributed $18,063 towards open-source in 2024, surpassing our initial goal of $2,000 per full-time developer & plan to maintain that standard into the future.
Open-Source We're Supporting
So far this year, we've donated to the following:
| OSS | Description | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| SwiftPackageIndex | The place to find Swift packages | $6,000 |
| Lottie | A library for Android, iOS, Web, and Windows that renders awesome animations | $2,250 |
| Vapor | A server-side Swift HTTP web framework | $2,250 |
| Marcin Krzyzanowski | Creator of essential iOS libraries including CryptoSwift, STTextView & OpenSSL | $1,900 |
| Tuist | A tool to create, maintain, and interact with Xcode projects at scale | $1,800 |
| Shot | A screenshot testing library for Android | $900 |
| Periphery | A tool to identify unused code in Swift projects | $900 |
| Connor Tumbleson | Creator of Apktool, a tool for reverse engineering Android APK files | $378 |
| CocoaPods | A dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects | $900 |
| Wei Wang | Creator of Kingfisher, a powerful Swift library for downloading and caching images from the web | $270 |
| Christos Kasketis | Creator of Netfox, a lightweight iOS/OSX network debugging library | $225 |
| Sergio Sastre Flórez | Creator of a great sample repo for screenshot testing on Android | $100 |
| David Hérault | Creator of serverless-offline | $100 |
| Detekt | A static code analysis tool for Kotlin | $90 |
| Total | $18,063 | |
Our Commitment to Open-Source
We're also committed to contributing to the open-source community through our own projects:
- Open-Source Hacker News: An entirely free, open-source Hacker News app built using the latest and greatest in Android dev.
- ETTrace: Easily and accurately profile iOS apps. Locally measure performance of your app, without Xcode or Instruments.
- Pow: Delightful SwiftUI effects for your app.
- ETSymbolication: Generate symbols for frameworks like SwiftUI to symbolicate crash reports.
- SmallStrings: Reduce localized .strings file sizes by 80%.
- SnapshotPreviews: An all-in-one iOS snapshot testing solution.
Ask your company to join the pledge too! And remember, Size Analysis is free for non-commercial open-source projects. Submit your repo for instructions on how to get set up.