Awesome Swift

A collaborative list of awesome Swift resources,inspired by awesome-python and listed on awesome-awesomeness.

Feel free to contribute!

• Awesome Swift
  • Demo Apps
    • iOS
      • Apple Watch
    • OS X
  • Dependency Managers
  • Guides
  • Editor Support
    • Vim
  • Libs
    • Animation
    • Audio
    • API
    • Colors
    • Cryptography
    • Data Management
      • Core Data
      • JSON
      • SQLite
      • XML
    • Date
    • Events
    • Fonts
    • Gesture
    • iBeacon
    • Images
    • Keyboard
    • Layout
    • Logging
    • Math
    • Network
    • Quality
    • Security
    • System
    • Testing
    • UI
    • Utility
    • Video
    • Webserver
  • Misc
  • Tools
    • Documentation

Demo Apps

Some interesting demo/poc apps written in swift.

iOS

A list of iOS swift demo apps

• 2048 - 2048 demo game in swift.
• Alarm - an alarm app in swift.
• Chat - chat like app implementation in swift.
• CloudKit-To-Do-List - a cloudkit based to do list.
• DeckRocket - deckrocket porting in swift.
• Edhita - text edit app.
• Eidolon - The Artsy auction kiosk app.
• firefox-ios - firefox for iOS being developed by Mozilla.
• Federal Open Data - Get federal Open Data using the Federal Data SDK
• FlappySwift - flappy bird clone in swift.
• HackerNews - hackernews reader app written in swift.
• HausClock - chess stile clock app in swift.
• HomeKitDemo - homekit demo app;
• HackerNewsClient-iOS - hackernews client in Swift
• iContactU - delivered on Apple Store: reminds you to contact people you ought to.
• KeychainDemo - keychain sharing between an App and it's share extension
• LayerPlayer - explores CALayer and subclasses; written in Swift; also on App Store
• MyAwesomeChecklist - checklist app in swift.
• Path Logger - a GPS Path Logger with Core Data
• Pocket Forecast - typhoon weather example
• ReactiveSwiftFlickrSearch - an MVVM & ReactiveCocoa Flickr search app in swift.
• Round & Split - a tip calculator in swift
• SwiftDemo - a collection of demo for swift.
• SwiftFlickrApp - flickr app written in swift.
• SwiftHN - hacker news app in swift.
• SwiftWeather - a nice weather app written in swift.
• TextEthan - a clone of TextEthan, a messaging app that allows anyone to message you
• Task - a task app written in Swift that is published in the app store.
• The Oakland Post - a full-fledged, 100%-Swift (minus dependencies) news reader.
• Valio - event time table app in swift.
• Walk Tracker - GPS Walk Tracking app with Core Data

Watch

A list of Apple watch enabled projects

• Gulps - OS app for iOS and apple watch to monitor water consumption.
• Soon - Countdown app for apple watch.

OS X

A list of OSX swift demo apps

• clock-saver - a clock screen saver for osx written in swift.
• dshb - OS X system monitor in Swift
• Helium - floating web browser
• Panda - a simple OSX menu bar application to enable/disable Yosemite dark mode.
• RetinAssets - a simple app that generates missing images from a scaled images (3x -> 2x and 1x scale)

Dependency Managers

Dependency manager software for swift.

• carthage - a new dependency manager for swift.
• cocoapods - the most used dependency manager for Objective-C.

Guides

An awesome list of swift related guides.

Official Guide

• Apple Swift Guide - Official guide by Apple about swift.
• Apple eBook - Official Apple eBook for swift beginners.

Third party Guides

• A better way to learn swift - Learn swift in a different way.
• Developing iOS 8 Apps with Swift - Stanford course by Paul Hegarty.
• Exercism.io - Free Swift Crowd-sourced mentorship by doing exercises
• Functional Programming in Swift - A book on how to use Swift functionally
• Learn Swift - a collection of tuts that will help you learning swift via playground.
• Natasha the Robot - Weekly Newsletter on learning Swift
• objc.io snippets - Short, weekly snippets showing off Swift features
• Practice Swift - an interesting guide to learn swift.
• SwiftDoc - Auto-generated documentation for Swift.
• SwiftGuide CN - A chinese written guide for swift.
• SwiftInFlux - A well explained list of feature in flux for swift
• Swifty - App to learn to code in Swift.
• Swift Tips - Swift tips collection.
• Swift-Weekly - Weekly Swift Language Gems, Tips and Tricks

Style Guides

• GitHub - Style guide & coding conventions for Swift projects.
• Raywenderlich - Raywenderlich swift guide, a must read.
• SlideShare (LinkedIn) - Style guides that SlideShare (LinkedIn) uses for their Swift iOS app.

Editor Support

Support for your favorite editors.

Vim

• swift-vim - play swift with vim editor.
• vim-swift - adds swift support to vim. It covers syntax, indenting, and more.
• vim-polyglot - language pack for vim that includes vim-swift.

Libs

Here you can find a list of snippets and libs for your swift projects.

Animation

Libs to help with animation

• DKChainableAnimationKit - Easy to read and write chainable animations in Swift.
• EasyAnimation - A Swift library to take the power of UIView.animateWithDuration(_:, animations:...) to a whole new level.
• Spring - A library to simplify iOS animations in Swift.

Audio

Libs to work with audio

• AudioPlayer - A wrapper around AVPlayer with some cool features.
• MusicKit - A framework for composing and transforming music in Swift

API

Quick libs to get access to third party API services

• Federal Data SDK - Eases access to multiple federal government OpenGov APIs
• GooglePlacesAutocomplete - Simple Google Places address entry for iOS.
• Swifter Twitter - Swifter Twitter framework for swift.
• Typhoon - Dependency injection toolkit in swift.
• PredictionIO SDK - A convenient API to communicate with PredictionIO's Event Server and ML Engines
• PXGoogleDirections - Google Directions API helper.

Colors

Interesting snippets related to color management and utility.

• DynamicColor - An extension to manipulate colors in Swift easily.
• FlatUIColors - Flat UI color palette in Swift.
• Google Material Color - Google Material Color Palette in Swift.
• HexColor - Define UIColors as Hex integers.
• PrettyColors - Styles and colors text in the Terminal with ANSI escape codes. Conforms to ECMA Standard 48.
• RandomColorSwift - An attractive color generator for Swift. Ported from randomColor.js.
• UIColor-Hex-Swift - Hex to UIcolor converter.
• UIColorWDUtils - Extension for Hex RGB(A).

Cryptography

Deal with cryptography method easily in swift

• CryptoSwift - add crypto lib support to swift.
• SwiftSSL - add crypto toolkit in swift.

Data Management

Core Data

No more pain with Core Data, here listed some interesting lib to handle data management.

• AERecord - super awesome Core Data wrapper library for iOS written in Swift.
• AlecrimCoreData - a simple CoreData wrapper library written in Swift.
• CoreStore - simple and elegant way to handle CoreData in Swift.
• JSQCoreDataKit - A swifter Core Data stack.
• SugarRecord - an easy with to work with coredata and realm.
• SuperRecord - A small set of utilities to make working with CoreData and Swift a bit easier.
• QueryKit - an easy way to play with coredata filtering within your swift projects.

JSON

Struggling using json data? Here you are some interesting way to handle it.

• AlamofireObjectMapper - An Alamofire extension which converts JSON response data into swift objects using ObjectMapper.
• Argo - Json parsing library
• Himotoki - A type-safe JSON decoding library purely written in Swift.
• json-swift - A basic library for working with JSON in swift.
• JSONHelper - lightning fast JSON deserialization and value conversion library for iOS & OS X written in swift.
• ObjectMapper - JSON object mapper.
• Pistachio - Generic model framework for Swift.
• SwiftyJSON - A lib for JSON in swift with error handling.
• SwiftMapper - JSON Mapper.
• SwiftJSONParser - JSON parser.
• yaml.swift - Load YAML and JSON documents using Swift.

SQLite

Are you interested in storing your app data using SQLite? Here some interesting resources.

• SQLite.swift - A pure Swift framework wrapping SQLite3. Small. Simple. Safe.
• SQLiteDB - sqlite wrapper for swift.
• SwiftData - simple and Effective SQLite Handling in Swift.

XML

If you prefer to manage XML data formatted entries, here some helpful libs

• AEXML - xml wrapper
• SWXMLHash - Simple XML parsing in Swift.

Date

Handle data formatting easily.

• AFDateHelper - Simple date helper.
• Punctual.swift - Swift date handler
• Swift-NSDate-Extensions - Swift Version of Erica's NSDate Extensions.
• SwiftDate - Easy NSDate Management in Swift
• SwiftMoment - A time and calendar manipulation library.
• SwiftyTimer
• Tempo - Date and time manager for iOS/OSX written in Swift.
• Timepiece - Intuitive NSDate extensions in Swift.

Events

Alternatives to NSNotificationCenter, Key-Value-Observation, or delegation.

• Bond - a Swift binding framework.
• BrightFutures - promise and future lib for swift.
• Caravel - A Swift event bus for UIWebView and JS
• DeLorean - A Functional Reactive Programming kit.
• EmitterKit - an implementation of event emitters and listeners in swift.
• Future - A micro framework providing Future<T, Error>
• FutureKit - A Swift based Future/Promises Library.
• PromiseKit - async promise programming lib.
• PureFutures - Futures and Promises library
• Signals - replaces delegates and notifications.
• SwiftEventBus - A publish/subscribe event bus optimized for iOS.
• ReactKit - Swift Reactive Programming.
• RxSwift - Microsoft Reactive Extensions (Rx) for Swift and iOS/OSX platform.

Fonts

A collection of font related snippets.

• Font-Awesome - Use Font Awesome in project written in Swift.
• FontBlaster - Programmatically load custom fonts into your iOS app.
• GoogleMaterialDesignIcons - google Material Design Icons Font for iOS.
• MCFontAwesome - fontawesome porting for swift.
• OpenSansSwift - OpenSans for swift.
• SDevIconFonts - Fontawesome, Iconic, Ionicons, Octicon porting for swift.
• SwiftFonts - render all the supported fonts in swift.

Gesture

• DBPathRecognizer - db path recognizer for letters.

iBeacon

Interested in using iBeacon in your swift project? Here some interesting resources.

• iBeacon - iBeacon implementation in swift.

Images

An interesting list of image related libs..

• CYFastImage - display images from web.
• DePict - functional wrapper for CoreGraphics
• gifu - highly performant animated GIF support for iOS in Swift.
• ImageLoader - A lightweight and fast image loader for iOS written in Swift.
• ImageScout - a Swift implementation of fastimage - supports PNG, GIF, and JPEG.
• KFSwiftImageLoader - An extremely high-performance, lightweight, and energy-efficient pure Swift async web image loader with memory and disk caching for iOS and  Watch.
• Kingfisher - a lib for image download and caching.
• MapleBacon - Swift image download and caching library.
• PASImageView - async remote download your image and round them. automatically.
• SwiftColorArt - font schema generator according image colours.
• SwiftGif - A small UIImage extension with gif support
• Toucan - Image processing api
• UIImageView-BetterFace-Swift - autoresize images and if any face discovered refine the position of the image.

Keyboard

Do you want to create your own customized keyboard? Here some interesting resources

• Hodor Keyboard - poc for custom keyboard implementation.

Layout

Libs to help you with layout.

• ManualLayout - Easy to use and flexible AutoLayout alternative for iOS 8+. Supports AsyncDisplayKit.
• SwiftBox - Flexbox in Swift, using Facebook's css-layout.

Auto Layout

Bored of using storyboard? Give a try to declarative auto layout libs.

• Cartography - declarative auto layout lib for your project.
• PureLayout – The ultimate API for iOS & OS X Auto Layout.
• Restraint - Minimal Auto Layout in Swift.
• SnapKit - A Swift Autolayout DSL for iOS & OS X.
• Snappy - a light-weight layout framework which wraps AutoLayout with nicer syntax.
• SwiftAutoLayout - a small DSL for autolayout.
• Swiftstraints - Powerful auto-layout framework that lets you write constraints in one line of code.
• Tails - declarative autolayout for ios app written in swift.
• VFLToolbox - fancy Swift implementation of the Visual Format Language

Logging

Utilities for writing to and reading from the device log

• CleanroomASL — a low-level Swift API for writing to and reading from the Apple System Log daemon
• CleanroomLogger — a configurable and extensible high-level logging API that is simple, lightweight and performant

Math

• Easy-Cal-Swift - Overload +-*/ operator for Swift, make it easier to use (and not so strict).
• Surge - Accelerate framework for swift.
• swix - A general matrix language.

Network

A list of libs that allow you to decrease the amount of time spent to deal with http requests.

• agent - http request agent.
• Alamofire - elegant networking in swift.
• APIKit - a library for building type-safe web API client.
• GRequest - http request handler.
• IJReachability - check for network connection availability.
• Just - HTTP for Humans (a python-requests style HTTP library in Swift)
• ModestProposal - an HTTP toolbox.
• Moya - network abstraction layer.
• Net - an httprequest wrapper.
• OAuth2 - oauth2 auth lib.
• OAuthSwift - Swift based OAuth library for iOS.
• PeerKit - An open-source Swift framework for building event-driven, zero-config Multipeer Connectivity apps.
• RSNetworking - Network library written purely in Swift.
• Socket.IO - Socket.IO client for iOS/OS X.
• SocketIO-Kit - Socket.io iOS and OSX Client.
• Stargate - A communication channel from your Mac to your watch.
• Starscream - websockets implementation in swift.
• SwiftHTTP - NSURLSession wrapper.
• SwiftSocket - simple TCP socket library.
• SwiftWebSocket - A high performance WebSocket client library for Swift.
• Transporter - A tiny library makes uploading and downloading easier.
• YYHRequest-Swift - http request in async.

Quality

• SwiftLint - An experimental tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.

Security

• iOS-TouchID-Swift - TouchID for Swift.
• JMEasyTouchID - TouchID one line wrapper.

• KeychainAccess - Simple Swift wrapper for Keychain that works on iOS and OS X.

• KeyClip - Keychain framework for iOS written in Swift.
• SwiftKeychainWrapper - a simple static wrapper for the iOS Keychain to allow you to use it in a similar fashion to user defaults.

Sensors

Manage your device sensors in a faster and easier way

• MotionKit - iOS device sensors wrapper

System

• SMCKit - Apple SMC library in Swift
• SystemKit - OS X system library in Swift

Testing

A collection of testing frameworks.

• Mockingjay - An elegant library for stubbing HTTP requests with ease in Swift.
• Quick - Quick is a behavior-driven development framework for Swift and Objective-C.
• Sleipnir - BDD-style framework for Swift.
• SwiftCheck - A testing library that automatically generates random data for testing program properties.
• Swiftest - experimental BDD-style framework.

UI

A collection of pre-packaged transitions & cool ui stuffs.

• Adaptive Tab Bar - Adaptive tab bar.
• AIFlatSwitch - Flat animated switch.
• BreakOutToRefresh - A playable pull to refresh view using SpriteKit
• BWWalkthrough - A class to build custom walkthroughs for your iOS App.
• BubbleTransition - Bubble transition in a easy way.
• CharacterText - Perform fx on UILabel.
• ENSwiftSideMenu - Sliding side menu.
• Few.swift - Views as functions of their state.
• FloatLabelFields - Text entry controls which contain a built-in title/label so that you don't have to add a separate title for each field.
• FloatRatingView - Floating rating system.
• FrostedSidebar - Hamburger Menu using Swift and iOS 8 API's.
• Geometry - extensions for UIView.
• GoogleWearAlert - Google Wear Alert style.
• GuillotineMenu - Guillotine style menu.
• Hakuba - A new way to manage UITableView without the code of UITableViewDelegate and UITableViewDataSource.
• HamburgerButton - Hamburger button with a slick animation.
• Hamburger button transition - Hamburger button transition.
• ios-charts - An iOS port of the beautiful MPAndroidChart.
• JTToast - Toast for swift.
• LTMorphingLabel - Graceful morphing effects for UILabel written in Swift.
• LTJelloSwitch - UISwitch prototype.
• KDEDateLabel - An UILabel subclass that updates itself to make time ago's format easier.
• KMPlaceholderTextView - A UITextView subclass that adds support for multiline placeholder.
• MaterialKit - Material design components.
• MediumScrollFullScreen - Medium scroll style menubar.
• [MIBadgeButton] (https://github.com/mustafaibrahim989/MIBadgeButton-Swift) - Notification badge for UIButtons
• Pagemenu - Pagination enabled view controller.
• PagingMenuController - Paging view controller with customizable menu in Swift.
• Panoramic - Panoramic facebook story clone.
• Persei - Animated top menu for UITableView / UICollectionView / UIScrollView written in Swift.
• PinterestSwift - Pinterest style transition.
• PKHUD - Reimplementation of the Apple HUD.
• PNChart-Swift - A simple and beautiful chart lib with animation
• PPSwiftGifs - a convenient way to show animated GIF images as a part of iOS GUI.
• PullToRefreshSwift - PullToRefresh library.
• RubberBandEffect - Recreating Apple’s rubber band effect in Swift.
• SAHistoryNavigationViewController - iOS task manager like UI in UINavigationContoller.
• SCLAlertView - Animated Alert view.
• SDevBootstrapButton - Twitter Bootstrap buttons for Swift
• Siren - Inform users when App Store updates are available.
• Swift-Prompts - A Swift library to design custom prompts with a great scope of options to choose from.
• SweetAlert - Alert system.
• SwiftOverlays - various popups and notifications.
• SwiftValidator - UIView validation framework.
• TagListView - Simple but highly customizable iOS tag list view.
• TextFieldEffects - Several ready to use effects for UITextFields
• Twinkle - a Swift and easy way to make elements in your iOS app twinkle.
• ZFRippleButton - A ripple button animation.

Utility

Some interesting utilities that help you in your projects

• __ - Underscore.js power in your swift projects.
• AAWindow - UIWindow subclass to enable behavior like adaptive round-corners & detecting when Control Center is opened.
• Async – Syntactic swift sugar for Grand Central Dispatch
• Async.legacy – Syntactic swift sugar for Grand Central Dispatch (iOS 7 and OS X 10.9 Mavericks compatible fork)
• AwesomeCache - manage cache easy in your swift project.
• Chronos- Grand Central Dispatch Utilities.
• CLIKit - a way to create cli with swift.
• Collection Each - add each func to collections.
• CommandLine - A pure Swift library for creating command-line interfaces
• DBPathRecognizer - Gesture recognizer tool.
• Dispatcher - Queues, timers, and task groups in Swift
• Dollar - a lib similar to Lo-Dash or Underscore in Javascript.
• ExSwift - a set of swift extensions for standard types and classes.
• Forbind - Functional chaining and Promises in Swift
• Funky - Functions and operators for functional programming in Swift.
• GCD - A wrapper of Grand Central Dispatch written in Swift
• Honour - Simple and powerful Validation Library
• Lambdatron - Clojure(ish) interpreter in Swift.
• LlamaKit - Collection of must-have functional Swift tools.
• Mendel - Swift miliframework for implementing evolutionary/genetic algorithms.
• PermissionScope - A Periscope-inspired way to ask for iOS permissions.
• protobuf-swift - ProtocolBuffers for Swift.
• Prototope - Swift library of lightweight interfaces for prototyping, bridged to JS.
• Puree - A log collector for iOS
• Pythonic.swift - Pythonic tool-belt for Swift: a Swift implementation of selected parts of Python standard library.
• Regex - Swift wrapper class for NSRegularExpression. Includes a map() override and an operator (=~) for a more Swift-like API.
• Result - Swift type modelling the success/failure of arbitrary operations.
• Runes - Functional operators for Swift - flatMap, map, apply, pure
• SpecificationPattern - chainable rules useful for form validation.
• SpriteKit+Spring - SpriteKit API reproducing UIView's spring animations with SKAction.
• Stream - Lazy streams in Swift.
• SwiftBitmask - Bitmask<T> type intended as a replacement for RawOptionSet.
• SwiftColors - HEX color handling as an extension for UIColor.
• SwiftForms - form are now easy as 1.2.3!
• SwiftMemCache - Swift Memory Cache with namespace & TTL support.
• SwiftyStateMachine - Swift µframework for creating state machines.
• SwiftyUserDefaults — a cleaner, nicer syntax for NSUserDefaults
• Swiftz - a lib for functional programming.
• Swift Sugar - objsugar ported to swift.
• undefined - Nano framework which defines Haskell's undefined in Swift.
• Versions - Helping you find inner peace when comparing version numbers in Swift.
• Wyrd - Asynchronous programming in Swift made easy. Wyrd is inspired by Promises/A+.
• XCGLogger - a lib that help you handling better debug logging.
• Swell - a logging utility for Swift.

Video

• Player - iOS video player in Swift, simple drop in component for playing and streaming media.

Webserver

Do you wanna host a webserver in your device? Here you can find some tricks to do it.

• NetworkObjects - REST HTTP Server written in Swift. Builds REST API from Core Data.
• swifter - Http server written in Swift with routing handler.

Misc

Miscellaneous Swift related projects

• swift-compiler-crashes - A collection of test cases crashing the Swift compiler
• swiftier - Quick-and-dirty Objective-C to Swift translator.
• SwiftInFlux — List of things that are "in flux" in Swift + changelog of the language

Tools

Tools for Swift development

Documentation

Generate documentation for Swift code

• jazzy - Soulful docs for Swift & Objective-C
• swiftdoc-parser - Header parsing and HTML generating utilities for SwiftDoc.org