Social SDKs in Top 200 Free iOS Apps

Facebook 97 Apps (49% of Top 200)

Facebook provides the easiest way to track success of App Ads, implement powerful sharing or let people log into an app with Facebook. Among other tools, this SDK provides anonymized audience insight about the people interacting with the app as well as a way for people to login to the app through Facebook. It also contains five component SDKs that can be connected to individually.

Twitter 96 Apps (48% of Top 200)

Using the Twitter API requires an authorized Twitter App and authenticated requests. The Twitter API supports a few authentication methods depending on the endpoint.

Facebook Core Kit 83 Apps (42% of Top 200)

The Facebook CoreKit SDK allows for sharing of data with Facebook, including information about users of the app. Facebook will use information received in accordance with their Data Use Policy.

Facebook Share Kit 75 Apps (38% of Top 200)

FB SDK ShareKitfor iOSpeople can also share content from your app to Facebook Messenger with Messenger Expression Platform or from Sharing's Message Dialog in iOSSDK.

Facebook Messenger Share Kit 29 Apps (14% of Top 200)

Sharing tool for Facebook messenger SDKs. Facebook plans to launch a "lighter, better, simpler" Messenger for iOSand Android. From August 15, 2019 and on, updated versions of the app will not support Share to Messenger SDK. Developers will need to make changes to adjust.

Pinterest 29 Apps (14% of Top 200)

Pinterest helps you easily integrate your iOSapps with Pinterest. It allows you make authentications and requests on behalf of the users.

Google Plus by muyexi 26 Apps (13% of Top 200)

GooglePlus allows users to sign in and share with Google+ from third-party apps. The SDK also provides Google+ APIs for the app to access the list of people in user-selected circles and to read and write user's app activities.

Spotify 12 Apps (6% of Top 200)

The Spotify iOSSDK allows your iOSapplication to authenticate users, as well as interact and always stay in sync with the main Spotify application running on the user’s device in the background. For the SDK to work the iOSdevice must be on iOS9 or higher and the Spotify app must be downloaded to the device.

Twitter Kit 10 Apps (5% of Top 200)

Twitter Kit was designed to interactions with Twitter much more efficient. Using Twitter Kit, users are able to display Tweets, log someone in, or Tweet from your app.

Fabric Twitter Core 8 Apps (4% of Top 200)

Fabric is a tool that allows realtime observation of the progress of your applications. Fabric allows for teams to easily collaborate in development, understand your users, and grow your business as a whole.

Google Plus 7 Apps (4% of Top 200)

Google Plus allows users to sign-in and share Google Plus from third-party apps. It offers the opportunity to experience Google first hand on an iOSdevice with the aid of APIs. The SDK also provides APIs for the list of people in user selected circles.

TM Tumblr 7 Apps (4% of Top 200)

Tumblr SDK is an unopinionated and flexible library for easily integrating Tumblr data into your iOSor OS X application. Tumblr SDK is open source and contains an API which can easily be integrated into your project.

VK 4 Apps (2% of Top 200)

The VK SDK is a iOSlibrary for working with VK API, authorization through VK app, using VK functions. To authorize via VK App you need to setup a url-schema for your application, which looks like vk+APP_ID (e.g. vk1234567).

LinkedIn 4 Apps (2% of Top 200)

The LinkedIn mobile SDK for iOSdecreases your app's time to market by providing out-of-box support for LinkedIn natively inside your iOSapplications, saving you time to work on the unique parts of your application that matter the most. The LinkedIn SDK provides single sign-on (SSO) authentication, in conjunction with the official LinkedIn mobile application, a convenient wrapper for making authenticated calls to LinkedIn's REST APIs, deeplinking to additional member content in the official LinkedIn iOSapp, and a sample application that demonstrates all of the SDK's features.

Share V3 3 Apps (2% of Top 200)

Share is a comprehensive SDK that provides social functions for your application by integrating common class libraries and interfaces. Share supports rich media content (graphics, music, videos, etc.), screenshots and applets for quick sharing with support for WeChat, Vibrato, QQ, Weibo, Facebook, Twitter and other global 40+ mainstream social platform.

ShareKit 3 Apps (2% of Top 200)

The ShareKit SDK allows for in-app drop in sharing on iPhone and iPad apps. ShareKit is an altnerative to UIActivityViewControler and there is a good amount of work required to keep ShareKit updated.

Kakao 2 Apps (1% of Top 200)

Kakao is a developer environment for staging applications. Kakao offers API integrations with realtime observation of analytics of applications. The platform offers 100 million users guaranteed on.

Cordova Plugin (Camera) 1 Apps (1% of Top 200)

CordovaPlugin (Camera) aids users to get location metadata with photos from the CameraRoll. It uses an API for accessing camera-roll photos with location and 'moment' information.