libfreefare ☆

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Description:
API for MIFARE card manipulations

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: nfc mifare security hardware c-library

Install: brew install libfreefare

About:
Libfreefare is a C library designed to provide a high-level API for interacting with MIFARE Classic, Plus, and DESFire cards. It simplifies complex command sequences into easy-to-use functions for reading and writing data. This enables developers to rapidly build applications for secure access control and other NFC-based solutions.

Key Features:

Support for MIFARE Classic, Plus, and DESFire
High-level C API for complex card operations
Integration with libnfc for hardware communication
Open source and cross-platform

Use Cases:

Developing custom access control systems
Reading and writing data to NFC tags
Building public transit or payment card applications

Alternatives:

libnfc – Libnfc provides low-level hardware communication, whereas Libfreefare offers high-level abstractions specifically for MIFARE cards.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 14, 2025 3:17am		4	VERSION_BUMP	b36f7050
Sep 13, 2024 2:16pm		4	VERSION_BUMP	707388f9