In the spirit of the iPhoneDevWiki's list of open source tweaks, this is a list of open source jailbreaking tools (and tool components) for researchers and developers to study.
| Project | Source | Author | Compatibility | Updated (As of March 2014) | License | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absinthe | on OpenJailbreak Archived 2015-01-02 at the Wayback Machine | Dream Team | 5.0-5.0.1/5.1.1 | ? | ? | jailbreaking tool |
| amfi_interpose | on Github | comex, winocm, and chpwn | 5.0 to 6.1 | September 2013 | ? | "aka failbreak — a portable, fully userland jailbreak for (around) 5.0 to 6.1" (see also failbreak) |
| Chronic Dev team projects | on Github | various | ? | ? | ? | a bunch of projects, many overlapping with the ones on OpenJailbreak |
| greenpois0n | on OpenJailbreak Archived 2015-03-17 at the Wayback Machine | Chronic Dev Team | ? | ? | GPLv3 | jailbreaking tool |
| libimobiledevice | website | pimskeks and others | ? | ? | GPL | "a cross-platform software protocol library and tools to communicate with iOS® devices natively" |
| OpenJailbreak | list of projects Archived 2014-02-13 at the Wayback Machine | p0sixninja and others | ? | ? | (various) | a big list of libraries used in jailbreaking tools |
| opensn0w | on Github Archived 2015-06-26 at the Wayback Machine | winocm and others | ? | 12 March 2014 | GPL | "an open-source jailbreaking utility designed for platform-independence" |
| p0sixspwn | on Github | winocm, ih8sn0w, and others | 6.1.3-6.1.5 | 30 December 2013 | GPL | jailbreaking tool |
| Star and Saffron | on Github | comex | ? | ? | ? | JailbreakMe jailbreaks |
| unthredera1n | on Github or on OpenJailbreak Archived 2015-03-17 at the Wayback Machine | UnthreadedJB | ? | ? | GPLv3 | jailbreaking tool |
| daibutsu | on Github | Dora2-iOS | 8.4.1 32bit | ? | MIT | jailbreaking tool |
| p0laris | on Github | spv | 9.3.5/9.3.6 32bit | 20 April 2022 | GPLv3 | jailbreaking tool |
| Blizzard | on GitHub | GeoSn0w | 9.0 - 9.3.6, 32-bit | 25 July 2022 | GPLv3 | jailbreaking tool |
| Yalu102 | on Github | qwertyoruiopz and marcograssi | 10.0-10.1.1 A10, 10.0-10.2 A9X- | ? | WTFPL | jailbreaking tool |
| Odyssey | on Github | Odyssey Team | 13.0-13.7 | 28 August 2020 | BSD-3 | jailbreaking tool |
| Fugu | on Github | Linus Henze | 13.0-13.5.1 A10/A10X | 2 February 2020 | GPLv3 | jailbreaking tool |
| Taurine | on Github | Odyssey Team | 14.0-14.3 | 1 April 2021 | BSD-4 | jailbreaking tool |
| Fugu14 | on Github | Linus Henze | 14.2-14.5.1 | 24 October 2021 | MIT | jailbreaking tool |
| Fugu15 | on Github | Linus Henze | 15.0-15.5b3, A12+ | 31 October 2022 | MIT | jailbreaking tool |
| palera1n | on Github | palera1n Team | 15.0-16.4 | 3 October 2022 | MIT | jailbreaking tool |