Receigen 4+

The application has not been updated for a long time, and the negative review below further increased my doubt whether I should buy this incredibly useful tool. But yesterday I did anyway, because I realized that that negative review is actually the result of a user error. And indeed it is. The tool works just fine on Xcode 7.1 on El Capitan. There’s no need to replace any imports at all. Just configure your project right regarding the include files.

I would have given it 5 stars if it had not been for the lack of updates. I obviously wouldn’t be too happy if, say, 4.0 comes out tomorrow, but then again I believe it would be wise for the developer to continue to add more obfuscation to the output, as well as finding a way to obfuscate the openssl source itself.

Starting with Xcode 7 Apple has removed openssl. This caused Receigen to stop working. You can get your project to build by replacing all 222 instances of #import <openssl/headername> with #import “header name” to use the supplied headers. The problem is that the resulting app won’t work. It will fail to correctly verify the valid receipt added by the App Store, exiting with error 173. The proceedure at the Receigen site for testing receipt validation also doesn’t work.

The developer doesn’t respond to E-mail requests for help.

Untill this is fixed Don’t buy this App. This is a shame because this was such a huge time saver for developers.

I have been using Receigen for several years now across many apps. Despite the lack of updates, it’s still working just fine. I just completed a new app using auto-renewable subscriptions and was pleasantly surprised to find all the support I needed was there from the 2014 release and working fine with Xcode 8.3.2.