Cardculator iOS 15 for Free: Build Guide
Some of you might not be able to purchase the tweak for one reason or another. I completely understand that. That's why I open-sourced Cardculator on GitHub, even though it is a paid tweak, I always open-sourced everything I released to public for the jailbreak community for people to learn. Try making it a challenge for you to get Cardculator by compiling it yourself with this guide :)
I'm just a guy like you trying to earn some pocket money, the last thing I want is you pirating software, when you can learn how to actually make it yourself.
Prerequisites:
- A macOS machine with Ventura installed
- Xcode 14 (Xcode 13 and below won't compile at the moment)
- (Xcode command line tools?)
- (git?)
- Probably a ChatGPT account to follow along in case some errors occur (it is very good at troubleshooting errors)
Install Theos

Install Orion
cd $THEOS && git fetch && git checkout orion && git submodule update --init
Building Comet
Comet is a helper library made by developer who goes by the name of Ginsu. The library allows building preferences for tweaks using SwiftUI. To build it, clone the repo and build:
ROOTLESS=true
if building for rootful.cd ~
mkdir developer
cd ~/developer
git clone https://github.com/ginsudev/Comet
cd Comet
make spm
make package ROOTLESS=true
Verify installation:
ls $THEOS/lib/iphone/rootless/
The output should list the contents of the directory, with a directory (framework) - "Comet.framework". If not, find what you did wrong before continuing.
Add RemoteLog.h
RemoteLog is a project by Muirey03, which allows print information over the network to the server, which is very useful in tweak development when you don't have a debugger attached. Download the file and and place in Theos:
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Muirey03/RemoteLog/master/RemoteLog.h -o $THEOS/include/RemoteLog.h
Building Cardculator
Ironically the simplest part.
THEOS_PACKAGE_SCHEME=rootless
if building for rootful.cd ~/developer
git clone https://github.com/sourcelocation/cardculator
make spm
make do THEOS_PACKAGE_SCHEME=rootless
If it errors about THEOS_DEVICE_IP
variable missing, the compilation has succeeded and the file should be inside ~/developer/Cardculator/packages/<name>.deb
. AirDrop / send it to your device and you should be golden :)
Troubleshooting:
Nothing here yet... no issues reported
To ask me any question, other developers or just have a talk, you can join my Discord: https://discord.gg/HTseVFhEbK or Twitter: @sourceloc. Have a nice day!
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