Cutaway
macOS app for inspecting the layer hierarchy of iOS apps
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GITHUB · launched Oct 11, 2026 · 15 upvotes (top 75%)
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- debugging-tool
- developer-tools
- ios
- macos
- metal
- ui-inspector
- +1 more in the details below
Similar launches
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No Inspecting arbitrary iOS app view and layer hierarchies from a Mac requires low-level process injection, dynamic debugging via lldb/Mach ports, or a dedicated device-side dylib/tweak running on jailbroken or debuggable environments. Building the runtime introspection bridge and native macOS visualization engine demands deep macOS/iOS internal systems programming expertise.
What it would actually take: This requires an injected runtime agent (Objective-C/Swift dylib) communicating over usbmuxd or network sockets to a native macOS client (Swift/AppKit/Metal). The hard parts are traversing private CALayer/UIView trees across out-of-process sandboxes and safely streaming serialized hierarchy data in real-time. Specialized expertise in iOS runtime internals, Mach messaging, and low-level graphics debugging is necessary.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #1602 of 2090 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 347 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Zen Mode · hn · 2026-07-12 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Vesper · github · 2026-10-10 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- mayonnaise · github · 2026-10-10 · 46 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Dojo · github · 2026-10-14 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- apptrail · github · 2026-09-28 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- MacViewer · github · 2026-10-17 · 165 upvotes · similarity 0.61
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- No other launches for this product.
More details
- External ID
- 1414579317
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- Cutaway
- Website domain
- github.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.25
- All tags
- debugging-tool, developer-tools, ios, macos, metal, ui-inspector, view-hierarchy
- AI summary
- layer hierarchy inspector for ios developers
- Manually corrected
- No