Rui CarmoThis is a stub to start gathering some resources on Swift, which won several of my personal awards for “most breakages between major releases” and has therefore not been something I’ve invested a lot of time on.
In fact, I’ve yet to have a reason for building something with it (other than the occasional test), but it pays to keep an eye on things.
Resources
| Category | Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | 2026 | Holo | an experimental native macOS utility that turns the desk around a MacBook into four assignable tap zones by listening through the selected microphone and extracting acoustic features |
| phosphene | Video wallpaper engine for macOS Tahoe | ||
| nyxian | an on-device iOS IDE for developing native apps on unjailbroken iOS using a certificate | ||
| swiftui-app | clean SwiftUI macOS app template | ||
| Database | 2024 | Blackbird | a zero dependency SQLite database wrapper and model layer |
| Libraries | 2026 | FluidAudio | a Swift package for on-device audio AI using CoreML models: speech transcription, text-to-speech, voice activity detection, and speaker diarization on macOS and iOS |
| bonsplit | A native macOS tab bar library with split pane support | ||
| macOS Design Skill | native macOS app design system | ||
| 2025 | WorkKit | an amazing Swift package to parse documents from Apple’s iWork suite | |
| Noise | a Swift wrapper around Racket CS. | ||
| SwiftAI | a Swift library for building AI applications | ||
| 2024 | SyndiKit | A Swift library for RSS and Atom feeds | |
| Async-Channels | Performant channels for Swift concurrency | ||
| 2016 | Markingbird | A Markdown libary | |
| Other | 2016 | Building on ARMv7 | A concise walkthrough |
| Runtimes | 2024 | LuaJIT-spm | A LuaJIT package |
| swift-rp-pico-bare | Embedded Swift on the Raspberry Pi Pico | ||
| Samples | 2025 | winamp | A Winamp clone written in SwiftUI |
| 2024 | Swift-D3-Charts | Replicating D3 Charts with Swift Charts | |
| Tools | 2026 | apfel | a macOS CLI for on-device Apple Intelligence via FoundationModels |
| MXMaster | A lightweight macOS utility for Logitech MX Master mice, replacing the bloated Logitech Options | ||
| agentswift | A native macOS agent app for Apple-platform development, with Claude-based multi-step coding workflows. | ||
| AnsiSaver | An ANSI art screensaver for macOS that streams 16colo.rs packs via libansilove rendering | ||
| swifdroid | Swift toolchain and frameworks for Android development | ||
| xtool | a cross-platform Xcode replacement for building and deploying iOS apps with SwiftPM | ||
| 2024 | skip | a framework for creating dual-platform mobile apps in Swift and Kotlin | |
| bclm | a command line tool for limiting the battery’s max charge on macOS | ||
| 2022 | textra | a nice CLI tool that uses VisionKit and speech recognition APIs to OCR documents and audio into text. | |
| Tutorials | 2022 | Stanford University CS193p (Developing Applications for iOS using SwiftUI) | a pretty decent set of learning materials |