Awesome Swift

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

UI

• Eureka – Elegant iOS Forms in pure Swift.
• XLActionController – Fully customizable and extensible action sheet controller written in Swift.
• FlourishUI – Framework for models, colour extensions and buttons.
• SwiftColors – HEX colour 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 – a 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 a 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 colouring 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 the app.
• SimpleAlert – Customizable simple Alert and simple ActionSheet for Swift
• Interactive Side Menu – Customizable iOS Interactive Side Menu is 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 layout 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.

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 serializing 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.

Databases

Databases implemented in Swift.

• Realm – A mobile database that runs directly on 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.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• Quick – A behaviour-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 Swift.

HTTP

Swift libraries and wrappers for HTTP clients.

• Alamofire – an HTTP networking library written in Swift.
• 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 a 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 yours owns.
• NSLogger – A high-performance 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.

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.
• SwiftValidators – String validation for iOS developed in Swift. Inspired by validator.js
• Versions – Helping you find inner peace when comparing version numbers in Swift

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 – a 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.
• WWDC17-Recap – Markdown collection repo for the sessions taking place at WWDC17.
• 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.