Recomp / Preservation & revivals / iOS

Honk backend

Clean-room rewrite of the backend for Honk, a real-time messaging app shut down in 2023, so surviving copies of the iOS client can work again.

Clean-room AI-assisted wip
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Facts

Original
Honk (real-time messaging app)
Platform
iOS
Method
Clean-room
Provenance
AI-assisted · README says Codex reviewed commits and Claude was consulted on architecture (GitHub) what this means
Status
wip
Licence
none
Team
m1guelpf
Started
2026-06
Runs on
Linux
Needs the original
Yes: you supply your own legally obtained copy

How to get it legally

This project ships code only. Build or download it from the official repository, then supply data from a copy of Honk (real-time messaging app) you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.

This project was rebuilt clean-room by m1guelpf. Facts last checked 2026-10-17. Suggest a correction

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