Acknowledgements

Lookout Station is built on the shoulders of the open-source community. We are grateful to the authors and maintainers of the following libraries.

Inspiration

Lookout Station is the spiritual successor to Status Board by Panic, the beloved iPad dashboard app that was discontinued in 2016. Panic's commitment to beautiful, thoughtfully designed software has been a guiding inspiration throughout this project's development.

Open-Source Libraries

SwiftTerm

MIT

by Miguel de Icaza

A terminal emulator written in Swift, providing the foundation for the built-in terminal panel.

Citadel

MIT

by Orlandos

A high-level SSH client library built on SwiftNIO, powering SSH connections for remote server panels.

MarkdownUI

MIT

by Guillermo Gonzalez

A SwiftUI library for rendering Markdown content, used throughout the app for rich text display.

TelemetryDeck Swift SDK

MIT

by TelemetryDeck

Privacy-first analytics SDK that provides anonymous, aggregate usage insights without collecting personal data.

SwiftNIO

Apache 2.0

by Apple

A cross-platform asynchronous event-driven network application framework, used for low-level networking.

SwiftNIO SSH

Apache 2.0

by Apple

SSH protocol implementation built on SwiftNIO, providing the transport layer for SSH connections.

Swift Crypto

Apache 2.0

by Apple

Cryptographic API for Swift, providing hashing, signing, and encryption primitives.

Swift Collections

Apache 2.0

by Apple

Data structure implementations for Swift, including ordered collections and deques.

Swift System

Apache 2.0

by Apple

Idiomatic, low-level interfaces to system calls for file I/O and path handling.

Swift Log

Apache 2.0

by Apple

A logging API package for Swift, providing structured logging infrastructure.

Swift ASN.1

Apache 2.0

by Apple

ASN.1 serialization and deserialization library used for cryptographic data formats.

Swift Atomics

Apache 2.0

by Apple

Low-level atomic operations for Swift, supporting lock-free concurrent programming.

BigInt

MIT

by Karoy Lorentey

Arbitrary-precision integer arithmetic for Swift, used in cryptographic operations.

NetworkImage

MIT

by Guillermo Gonzalez

Asynchronous image loading and caching for SwiftUI, used by MarkdownUI for inline images.

swift-cmark

MIT

by Apple

CommonMark parsing library in C, providing the Markdown parsing engine behind MarkdownUI.

Special Thanks

Thank you to the SwiftUI, SwiftNIO, and HomeKit communities for their invaluable resources, discussions, and contributions. And to every beta tester who provided feedback during development — your input shaped the app into what it is today.