objection
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objection is a runtime mobile exploration toolkit powered by Frida that helps assess mobile application security on iOS and Android without a jailbreak.
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objection patchapk -s target.apk --skip-signing
objection patchipa -b com.example.customid path/to/app.ipa
objection signapk *.apk
android proxy set http://127.0.0.1:8080
ios monitor crypto
objection --gadget "MyApp" ping
objection --gadget-config gadget.yaml embed-ios-gadget -i path/to/app.ipa -o path/to/output.ipa
objection --patch-app -p app.apk --keep-extractNativeLibs
objection ios keychain add --account 'user' --service 'myapp'
objection ios heap execute js --inline 'JSON.stringify(heap.find("SomeClass"))'
objection android keystore watch
file cat /etc/hosts
ios keychain dump_raw
objection --gadget "<app_name>" explore
evaluate '<script_content>'
objection explore ios keychain dump --smart --json
objection ios bundles list_frameworks
objection android patch --target-class MyCustomClass
objection --gadget-name "com.example.app" explore android hooking get current_activity
objection -g <pid> android hooking search methods "<search string>"
objection -g <pid> android heap print_instances "<class>"
objection -g <pid> rm "<path>"
objection explore --patch <apk_path> --skip-resources
objection patchapk -s sample.apk --network-security-config
objection -g process_name explore && android sslpinning disable
objection --gadget myapp ios sslpinning disable --quiet
objection --gadget myapp ios sslpinning disable --ignore-ios10-tls-helper
objection --gadget "MyApp" explore --hook-debug
objection package patchapk --path /app.apk --pause
objection -g com.example.app explore android hooking watch class_method --include-backtrace
objection run -g my_process app_processes list
objection --gadget <pid> explore
android keystore list
objection --gadget <pid> explore
android keystore clear
objection --gadget <pid> explore
android clipboard monitor
Summary
objection is an open-source runtime mobile exploration toolkit, built on Frida, that lets you inspect and manipulate iOS and Android apps while they run, without needing a jailbreak or root. It is run as a command-line tool, installed via pip3 install objection, and attaches to a target process to bypass SSLSSLA cryptographic protocol for encrypting network connections, now deprecated in favor of TLS but whose name persists colloquially. Cyber tools reference it when handling HTTPS or other encrypted-channel inspection and termination. pinning, dump keychains or Android keystore entries, hook methods by pattern, and patch memory or APKs on the fly. This makes it a fit for mobile application penetration testers and reverse engineers assessing an app's security posture rather than developers building the app itself. First committed in 2017, it has 72 contributors and remains active, with 21 commits and a release in the past year.
objection is a runtime mobile exploration toolkit powered by Frida that helps assess mobile application security on iOS and Android without a jailbreak.
How objection helps
Can this app's traffic be intercepted despite certificate pinning?
hooks the app's pinning checks at runtime and forces them to pass, so a proxy in the middle sees plaintext traffic without touching the app's code
What secrets is this app leaving in the keychain or keystore?
dumps keychain items on iOS and keystore entries on Android, listing what's stored so credentials or tokens can be found without extracting the device image
Is this app trying to detect that it's running on a jailbroken or rooted device?
hooks known jailbreak and root detection libraries such as JailMonkey and RootBeer and forces their checks to report a clean device
Can I keep testing after the app crashes or the connection drops mid-session?
reattaches to a process that's still running, or respawns one that exited, so a long assessment doesn't have to restart from scratch
Can I hand a patched APK to a pipeline that signs it separately?
patches the APK to load the runtime agent and can skip the signing step, leaving a signing pipeline to apply its own certificate afterward
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Score card
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Shipping velocity releases a month, last 12 months
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Documentation quality release-notes rubric, 0–100
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Breaking-change discipline how rarely a release breaks users, and notice given
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Maintenance risk quiet time against its own cadence, maintainers
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Innovation & surface new capabilities, API and MCP surface
- Community health
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Contributor trend distinct committers, this year against last
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Maintainer concentration bus factor now against a year ago
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Issue backlog trend issues closed per issue opened, 12 months
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Responsiveness median time to a maintainer’s first reply
Nine scores for objection, each built from the releases, notes and API history this site tracks — and, on Researcher and Business, where it stands among every measured tool in its category and how that has moved.
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See plans →Each score is 0–100 on a published rubric, derived from data this site already shows. A dimension we cannot measure says so — it is never scored 0 and never enters a rank.
How this is scored
- Shipping velocity — releases a month over the last 12 months, on a log scale where 16 a month scores 100. Needs 3 releases in the window.
- Documentation quality — the release-notes rubric published on the analytics page, unchanged.
- Breaking-change discipline — the share of releases carrying a breaking change (none scores 100, half or more scores 0). Only projects that label breaking changes are measured: a clean record cannot be told from an unlabelled one.
- Maintenance risk — quiet time measured against the tool's own release cadence (quiet longer than 90 days and three typical gaps scores 0), plus the number of active maintainers and whether contributors are growing, where known. Higher is lower risk.
- Innovation & surface — new capabilities in the feature ledger this year, API and MCP operations added, and the share of commits that are features: the mean of whichever we hold.
- Community health (open-source tools only) — each is a direction, not a size: contributors this year against last, the bus factor now against a year ago, and issues closed per issue opened, where steady scores 50, doubled 100 and halved 0; plus the median time to a maintainer's first reply (an hour scores about 100, a month or more 0). A commercial card has no repository and carries none of the four.
- Documented delivery (commercial tools) — when a vendor's documented new capabilities have slowed against its own baseline, that counts against the overall standing as heavily as two low dimensions. Steady delivery, or too little history to judge, leaves the standing alone; it is never a sixth score.
- Open-source tools are scored on repository signals; commercial tools on their published changelog. Ranks compare tools within one category and one profile and need at least five measured peers; the overall standing needs three ranked dimensions. Best-in-breed or consolidator is a shape, not a quality, and is never scored.
Release-note detail over time
See how much detail objection puts in its release notes, quarter by quarter, and compare it with tracked tools in the same category. This history uses up to ten retained, reviewed notes per tool; sparse or blank older quarters may reflect that limit.
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Releases
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- June 20261
- March 20261
- November 20251
- April 20211
- February 20211
- August 20201
- May 20201
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- March 20201
- October 20192
- August 20193
- June 20191
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- April 20192
- March 20191
- February 20191
- July 20181
- June 20181
- April 20181
- March 20181
- January 20181
- November 20171
- October 20173
- September 20174
Project health
Issue, contributor and maintainer activity in sensepost/objection, 2023-10 – 2026-09, as of 2026-09-25. Twelve-month figures first; the trend lines run the whole window.
- Contributors 9 +6 vs prior 12 months
- Maintainers 2 +1 joined · −0 left, last 12 months
- Bus factor 1 committers behind half the commits
- Community-filed 97% of issues opened, last 12 months
- Median time to close 249 days first maintainer reply 4.4 hours
- Open backlog 46 of 605 issues ever filed
- Issues opened / month 0 · 0 communitymaintainers
- Open backlog 46
- Contributors / month 1
- Commits / month 1
- Stars 9,401
- bugs 5%
- features 3%
- other 92%
Counts from the project's public repository and git history; no individuals are identified. Maintainers are the committers covering 80% of the last year's commits. how we measure this
Libraries its release ships
What its latest release locks, checked against known advisories.None of its release's images build from a lockfile we can read.
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