How can I find the version number of an iPhone app from the IPA?

Question

We're trying out a new way of specifying version numbers for our app. I'd like to be able to check that the IPAs we're building have the version numbers we want. How do I get the version number out of the IPA?

Note - I'm not asking for a way of finding it from code inside the app; I've got a terminal open and the IPA file is built, and I want to know what to look for inside the IPA file.

Answer 1

Do the below from your terminal

    //Unzip the file 
    unzip YourIPAFile.ipa

    //Open payload folder
    cd Payload

    //Open your .app file
    cd yourApp.app

    //Open the plist file
    open Info.plist

You can find the version under Bundle version key

Answer 2

There's a better way than PlistBuddy and grep:

unzip -d ipa YourIPA.ipa
defaults read `pwd`/ipa/Payload/YourAppName.app/Info CFBundleVersion 
rm -rf ipa

It's worth noting that using defaults read requires an absolute path to your app.

Answer 3

1. Unzip your ipa file

   unzip YourIPAFile.ipa

2. Following plistBuddy command prints Bundle Version

    /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c print Payload/NAME.app/Info.plist | grep CFBundleVersion

   CFBundleVersion = 1.0

3. Following plistBuddy command prints BundleVersion String

    /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c print Payload/NAME.app/Info.plist | grep CFBundleShortVersionString

   CFBundleShortVersionString = 1.0

Answer 4

它在 IPA/payload/NAME.app/Info.plist 中

Answer 5

You can do it without writing and deleting a file by using tar's feature to extract a single file, then streaming the result to standard output and piping it into the plutil command (pl=>property lists). Extra bonus, pipe that to grep, looking for the string "Version" showing only one line past the found pattern.

In the command below, replace YourIPAFile.ipa with the name of the ipa file you want to inspect and YourAppName.app with the name of the bundle executable in the Plist.info file. For me, using flutter, these two values were the same "Runner", but it's essentially the directory in the tar file where the info.plist file is located.

tar -zxvOf YourIPAFile.ipa Payload/YourAppName.app/Info.plist | plutil -convert xml1 -r -o - -- - | grep -A 1 Version

The output is:

x Payload/YourAppName.app/Info.plist
        <key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
        <string>6.0</string>
--
        <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
        <string>1.0.5</string>
--
        <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
        <string>1</string>
--
        <key>DTPlatformVersion</key>
        <string>14.0</string>
--
        <key>MinimumOSVersion</key>
        <string>9.0</string>

Or more to the point:

tar -zxvOf YourIPAFile.ipa Payload/YourAppName.app/Info.plist | plutil -convert xml1 -r -o - -- - | grep -A 1 CFBundleVersion

x Payload/YourAppName.app/Info.plist
        <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
        <string>1</string>

or

tar -zxvOf YourIPAFile.ipa Payload/YourAppName.app/Info.plist | plutil -convert xml1 -r -o - -- - | grep -A 1 CFBundleShortVersion

x Payload/YourAppName.app/Info.plist
        <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
        <string>1.0.5</string>

Answer 6

I prefer to use ProvisionQL. https://github.com/ealeksandrov/ProvisionQL It provides a quick look of the IPA file (touching the IPA file with two fingers and clicking in Quick Look). It shows information like: Name, version, bundle id, device family, provisioning information, certificates, distribution profile, entitlements and more.

Answer 7

Easy and better way is if you could see the details in QuickLook.

Now there is a plugin for quick look which gives you many details.

You must have homebrew installed.

Link to quicklook plugin here .