UserDefaults VS Realm

Compare UserDefaults vs Realm and see what are their differences.

UserDefaults

Simple, Strongly Typed UserDefaults for iOS, macOS and tvOS (by nmdias)
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UserDefaults Realm
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1,432 16,134
- 0.1%
0.0 9.1
about 1 year ago 2 days ago
Swift Objective-C
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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UserDefaults

Posts with mentions or reviews of UserDefaults. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning UserDefaults yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Realm

Posts with mentions or reviews of Realm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-14.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing UserDefaults and Realm you can also consider the following projects:

SwiftyUserDefaults - Modern Swift API for NSUserDefaults

SwiftData

SQLite.swift - A type-safe, Swift-language layer over SQLite3.

GRDB.swift - A toolkit for SQLite databases, with a focus on application development

Zephyr - Effortlessly synchronize UserDefaults over iCloud.

MMKV - An efficient, small mobile key-value storage framework developed by WeChat. Works on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and POSIX.

Prephirences - Prephirences is a Swift library that provides useful protocols and convenience methods to manage application preferences, configurations and app-state. UserDefaults

FMDB - A Cocoa / Objective-C wrapper around SQLite

Couchbase Mobile - Lightweight, embedded, syncable NoSQL database engine for iOS and MacOS apps.

SwiftStore - Key-Value store for Swift backed by LevelDB