Awesome Swift

A curated list of awesome Swift frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-php.

• Awesome Swift
  • UI
  • Files
  • JSON/XML Manipulation
  • Databases
  • Testing
  • Documentation
  • Events
  • Queue
  • HTTP
  • Caching
  • Security
  • Logging
  • Command Line
  • Audio
  • Third Party APIs
  • Extensions
  • Misc
• Resources
  • Swift Books
  • Swift Videos
  • Swift Playgrounds
• Other Awesome Lists
• Contributing

UI

• Sejima - User Interface Library components for iOS.
• Eureka - Elegant iOS Forms in pure Swift.
• XLActionController - Fully customizable and extensible action sheet controller written in Swift.
• FlourishUI - Framework for modals, color exensions and buttons.
• SwiftColors - HEX color handling as an extension for UIColor.
• FontAwesome.swift - Use FontAwesome in your Swift projects.
• SwiftOverlays - GUI library for displaying various popups and notifications.
• ios-charts - A powerful chart / graph framework, the iOS equivalent to MPAndroidChart.
• TagCellLayout - UICollectionView layout for Tags with Left, Center & Right alignments.
• TagListView - Simple but highly customizable iOS tag list view.
• SwiftyButton - Simple and customizable button in Swift
• Swiftstraints - Powerful auto-layout framework that lets you write constraints in one line of code.
• PagingMenuController - Paging view controller with customizable menu in Swift
• GaugeKit - Customizable gauges. Easy reproduce Apple's style gauges.
• Hokusai - A library for a cool bouncy action sheet
• LNRSimpleNotifications - Simple Swift in-app notifications
• GoogleMaterialIconFont - Google Material Icon Font for Swift and ObjC.
• CozyLoadingActivity - Lightweight loading activity HUD
• VideoSplash - Video based UIViewController
• EZAlertController - Easy Swift UIAlertController
• EZSwipeController- 👆 UIPageViewController like Snapchat/Tinder/iOS Main Pages
• ImagePicker - A nicely designed and super easy to use ImagePicker. 📷
• Notie - In-app notification in Swift, with customizable buttons and input text field.
• Whisper - Break the silence of your UI, whispering, shouting or whistling at it
• HTYTextField - A UITextField with bouncy placeholder in Swift.
• SwiftPasscodeLock - An iOS passcode lock with TouchID authentication written in Swift.
• SlideMenuControllerSwift - iOS Slide Menu View based on Google+, iQON, Feedly, Ameba iOS app. It is written in pure swift.
• Hue - Hue is the all-in-one coloring utility that you'll ever need.
• SAHistoryNavigationViewController - SAHistoryNavigationViewController realizes iOS task manager like UI in UINavigationContoller.
• WobbleView - Implementation of wobble effect for any view in app.
• SimpleAlert - Customizable simple Alert and simple ActionSheet for Swift
• Interactive Side Menu - Customizable iOS Interactive Side Menu written in Swift 3.0.
• NFDownloadButton - Revamped Download Button.
• EFQRCode - A better way to operate quick response code in Swift.
• SendIndicator - Yet another task indicator.
• SectionedSlider - Control Center Slider.
• Cupcake - An easy way to create and layout UI components for iOS.
• PinLayout - Extremely Fast views layouting without auto layout. No magic, pure code, full control and blazing fast. Concise syntax, intuitive, readable & chainable.
• Gemini - Gemini is rich scroll based animation framework for iOS, written in Swift.
• Hero - Hero is a library for building iOS view controller transitions.
• CrispyCalendar - CrispyCalendar is the calendar UI framework.
• Ribbon - 🎀 A simple cross-platform toolbar/custom input accessory view library for iOS & macOS.

Files

• FileKit - Simple and expressive file management in Swift.

JSON/XML Manipulation

• SwiftyJSON - The better way to deal with JSON data in Swift.
• json-swift - A basic library for working with JSON in Swift.
• Argo - JSON parsing library for Swift, inspired by Aeson.
• ObjectMapper - JSON Object mapping written in Swift.
• Alamofire-SwiftyJSON - Alamofire extension for serialize NSData to SwiftyJSON.
• SWXMLHash - Simple XML parsing in Swift.
• AEXML - Simple and lightweight XML parser for iOS written in Swift.
• Starscream - WebSockets Library
• JASON - JSON parsing with outstanding performances and convenient operators.
• Fuzi - A fast & lightweight XML/HTML parser with XPath & CSS support in Swift 2.
• Tailor - A super fast & convenient object mapper tailored for your needs.
• SwiftyJSONAccelerator - Generate Swift 5 model files from JSON with Codeable support.

Databases

Databases implemented in Swift.

• Realm - A mobile database that runs directly inside phones, tablets or wearables.
• SQLite.swift - A pure Swift framework wrapping SQLite3. Small. Simple. Safe.
• SwiftData - A simple and effective wrapper around the SQLite3 C API written completely in Swift.
• Squeal - A Swift wrapper for SQLite databases.
• SQLiteDB - Basic SQLite wrapper for Swift.
• SwiftMongoDB - A Swift driver for MongoDB.
• ModelAssistant - Elegant library to manage the interactions between view and model in Swift.
• PostgresClientKit - A PostgreSQL client library for Swift. Does not require libpq.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• Quick - A behavior-driven development test framework for Swift and Objective-C.
• Sleipnir - A BDD-style framework for Swift.
• Nimble - A Matcher Framework for Swift.
• Fakery - Swift fake data generator.
• SwiftRandom - Generator for random data.
• MockFive - A mocking framework for Swift with runtime function stubbing.

Documentation

Libraries for generating documentation files.

• jazzy - A soulful way to generate docs for Swift & Objective-C

Events

Libraries for one-to-many communications.

• Caravel - A Swift event bus for UIWebView and JS
• EmitterKit - An elegant event framework built in Swift
• Swift-Custom-Events - A very simple way to implement Backbone.js style custom event listeners and triggering in Swift for iOS development.
• Kugel - A glorious Swift wrapper around NSNotificationCenter

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

• TaskQueue - A Task Queue Class developed in Swift.
• Dispatcher - Queues, timers, and task groups in Swift
• GCDKit - Grand Central Dispatch simplified with Swift.

HTTP

Swift libraries and wrappers for HTTP clients.

• Alamofire - an HTTP networking library written in Swift.
• ReactiveAPI - Write clean, concise and declarative network code relying on URLSession, with the power of RxSwift. Inspired by Retrofit.
• SwiftHTTP - Thin wrapper around NSURLSession in swift. Simplifies HTTP requests.
• Net - HttpRequest wrapper written in Swift.
• OAuthSwift - Swift based OAuth library for iOS
• Moya - Network abstraction layer written in Swift
• Just - HTTP for Humans (python-requests style HTTP library)
• SocketIO-Kit - Socket.io iOS/OSX Client compatible with v1.0 and later
• SwiftWebSocket - High performance WebSocket client library for Swift.
• AeroGear IOS Http - is a thin layer to take care of your http requests working with NSURLSession.
• Nuke - Advanced framework for loading and caching images
• Siesta - Ends state headaches by providing a resource-centric alternative to the familiar request-centric approach to HTTP.
• Taylor - a web server library in Swift.
• Perfect - a web framework tayin Swift.
• Swifter - an HTTP server engine in Swift.
• Kingfisher - A lightweight and pure Swift implemented library for downloading and caching image from the web.

Caching

Libraries for caching.

• HanekeSwift - A lightweight generic cache for iOS written in Swift with extra love for images.
• Carlos - A simple but flexible cache for iOS and WatchOS 2 apps, written in Swift.

Security

Libraries for generating secure random numbers, encrypting data and scanning for vulnerabilities.

• CryptoSwift - Crypto related functions and helpers for Swift implemented in Swift programming language.
• SHA256-Swift - Swift framework wrapping CommonCrypto's SHA256 methods.
• SwiftSSL - An Elegant crypto toolkit in Swift.
• SwiftyRSA - RSA public/private key encryption in Swift

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with log files.

• QorumLogs — Swift Logging Utility for Xcode & Google Docs.
• CleanroomLogger - A configurable and extensible pure Swift logging API that is simple, lightweight and performant.
• XCGLogger - A debug log framework for use in Swift projects.
• Swell - A logging utility for Swift and Objective C.
• Log - A logging tool with built-in themes, formatters, and a nice API to define your owns.
• NSLogger - A high perfomance logging utility which displays traces emitted by client applications running on Mac OS X, iOS and Android.

Command Line

Libraries for creating command line applications.

• CommandCougar - An elegant pure Swift library for building command line applications.

Audio

• AudioKit - Audio synthesis, processing, and analysis platform
• MusicKit - Framework and DSL for creating, analyzing, and transforming music in Swift
• WebMIDIKit - Simplest MIDI Swift framework

Third Party APIs

Libraries for accessing third party APIs.

• GooglePlacesAutocomplete - Simple Google Places address entry for iOS.
• Swifter - A Twitter framework for iOS & OS X written in Swift
• SwiftIB - An InteractiveBrokers API Library for OS X written in Swift. InteractiveBrokers is one of a few, if not the best, brokerage company provide Gateway+API solution for traders.

Extensions

• Dollar.swift - A functional tool-belt for Swift Language similar to Lo-Dash or Underscore in Javascript.
• swiftz - A Swift library for functional programming.
• ExSwift - JavaScript (Lo-Dash, Underscore) & Ruby inspired set of Swift extensions for standard types and classes.
• Observable-Swift - Value Observing and Events for Swift.
• PromiseKit - A delightful Promises implementation for iOS.
• Promissum - Promise library with functional combinators like map, flatMap, whenAll & whenAny.
• Promise - Simple promises library in Swift.
• PureFutures - Futures and Promises library
• SwiftTask - Promise + progress + pause + cancel, using SwiftState (state machine).
• Pythonic.swift - Pythonic tool-belt for Swift – a Swift implementation of selected parts of Python standard library.
• SWRoute - A tiny Swift wrapper. Allows you to route (hook) quite any function/method with another function/method or even a closure.
• Euler - Swift Custom Operators for Mathematical Notation.
• swix - Swift Matrix and Machine Learning Library.
• Easy-Cal-Swift - Overload +-*/ operator for Swift, make it easier to use (and not so strict).
• AlecrimCoreData - A simple Core Data wrapper library written in Swift.
• Async - Syntactic sugar in Swift for asynchronous dispatches in Grand Central Dispatch.
• SwiftState - Elegant state machine for Swift.
• LlamaKit - Collection of must-have functional Swift tools.
• ReactKit - Swift Reactive Programming.
• Basis - A number of foundational functions, types, and typeclasses.
• CAAnimation + Closure - Add start / completion closures for CAAnimation instances
• SwiftyUserDefaults — a cleaner, swiftier API for NSUserDefaults
• Pluralize.swift - Great Swift String Pluralize Extension
• SwiftSequence - A μframework of extensions for SequenceType in Swift 2.0, inspired by Python's itertools, Haskell's standard library, and other things.
• BrightFutures - Write great asynchronous code in Swift using futures and promises.
• EZSwiftExtensions - 😏 How Swift standard types and classes were supposed to work.
• BFKit-Swift - A collection of useful classes to develop Apps faster.
• Sugar - Something sweet that goes great with your Cocoa.
• ZamzamKit - A collection of micro utilities and extensions for Standard Library, Foundation and UIKit.
• Bow - Companion library for Typed Functional Programming in Swift.
• SwiftCoroutine - Swift coroutines for iOS and macOS.

Misc

• acli - commandline tool to download curated libraries from github (very beta)
• Compass - Compass helps you setup a central navigation system for your application.
• R.swift - tool to get strong typed, autocompleted resources like images and segues in your Swift project
• SwiftKVC - Key-Value Coding (KVC) for native Swift classes and structs
• Tactile - A safer and more idiomatic way to respond to gestures and control events.
• Swift 4 Module Template - An opinionated starting point for awesome, reusable Swift 4 modules
• SwiftValidators - String validation for iOS developed in Swift. Inspired by validator.js
• Versions - Helping you find inner peace when comparing version numbers in Swift
• Swift 4 Module Template - An opinionated starting point for awesome, reusable Swift 4 modules

Resources

Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your Swift development skills and knowledge.

Swift Websites

• Official website - A home page of Swift programming language.
• Official blog - Official Swift Blog.
• Jameson Quave's blog - Tips for everyday work with Swift.
• Swift Collection on Medium - Collection of blog posts about Swift on Medium.
• Swift Collection on raywenderlich.com - Collection of blog posts about Swift on raywenderlich.
• SwiftInFlux - An attempt to gather all that is in flux in Swift.
• We ❤ Swift - Tutorials and guides.
• Natasha The Robot - Nice blog about Swift by Natasha The Robot.
• LearnSwift.tips - A curated list of helpful resources to learn Swift. Tutorials, Code Samples, References.
• Hacking with Swift - a complete Swift training course that teaches you app development through 36 hands-on projects, for free.
• SwiftLang - a Swift Resource Center & Community.
• WWDC-Recap - A collection of session summaries in markdown format, from WWDC 19 & 17.
• Cocoacasts - Tutorials and videos about Swift and Cocoa development.

Swift Books

• The Swift Programming Language
• Using Swift with Cocoa and Objective-C
• Swift Standard Library Reference
• Learn to Program iOS and OS X with Apple Swift

Swift Videos

• TheSwiftLanguage youtube channel - Videos about the Swift programming language by Apple.
• Brian Advent youtube channel - High quality Swift tutorials.
• SkipCasts youtube channel - Skip Wilson's casts on Swift.
• Developing iOS 8 Apps with Swift - Stanford course by Paul Hegarty.

Swift Playgrounds

• Learn-swift playground - Learn Swift interactively through these playgrounds.
• Design-Patterns-In-Swift - Design Patterns implemented in Swift.
• SwiftStub - an online Swift playground and REPL.

Other Awesome Lists

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Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome! Please submit a pull request or create an issue to add a new framework, library or software to the list. Do not submit a project, which hasn't been updated in the past 6 months or is not awesome.