KeychainAccess vs SwiftDate

KeychainAccess

Simple Swift wrapper for Keychain that works on iOS, watchOS, tvOS and macOS. (by kishikawakatsumi)

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SwiftDate

🐔 Toolkit to parse, validate, manipulate, compare and display dates, time & timezones in Swift. (by malcommac)

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KeychainAccess		SwiftDate
	Project
8	Mentions	2
7,788	Stars	7,524
-	Growth	-
4.5	Activity	0.0
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	7 months ago
Swift	Language	Swift
MIT License	License	MIT License

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KeychainAccess

Posts with mentions or reviews of KeychainAccess. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-21.

How can I share data from one View Model to another?
1 project | /r/SwiftUI | 31 Mar 2023
How to store & retrieve from the Keychain without authentication?
1 project | /r/swift | 4 Jan 2023

I normally don‘t use third party libraries if I can avoid it… but using keychain is such a pain that I always use KeychainAccess (https://github.com/kishikawakatsumi/KeychainAccess).
Awesome macOS Libraries List
76 projects | dev.to | 21 Jan 2022

KeychainAccess - Simple Swift wrapper for Keychain. Language: Swift.
What are the most underrated third party libraries for Native iOS?
12 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 23 Oct 2021
Basic KeyChain Interaction, wrapper needed or own implementation?
1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 10 Oct 2021

I use KeychainAccess. It's pretty simple and straightforward to use. The good thing about using a third-party wrapper is that it'd take care of some edge cases and quirks that I may not have run into yet but someone else might have.
[TECH] Unity で iOS/Android アプリの設定値をセキュアに扱う方法 🔑
3 projects | dev.to | 15 Aug 2021
Is there a best practice for hiding API keys?
1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 31 Jul 2021

However, if you store secrets on the device, you must use Keychain to securely store them. Do not just store them in a text file or something.
Devs could resort to workarounds to avoid iOS 14 anti-tracking feature
1 project | /r/apple | 7 Jan 2021

SwiftDate

Posts with mentions or reviews of SwiftDate. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.

Question about Apple's review
6 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 17 May 2023

The 3rd party library I use GRDB SwiftyUserDefaults Kingfisher SwiftDate Popovers
What are the most underrated third party libraries for Native iOS?
12 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 23 Oct 2021

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing KeychainAccess and SwiftDate you can also consider the following projects:

keychain-swift - Helper functions for saving text in Keychain securely for iOS, OS X, tvOS and watchOS.

DateTools - Dates and times made easy in iOS

SwiftKeychainWrapper - A simple wrapper for the iOS Keychain to allow you to use it in a similar fashion to User Defaults. Written in Swift.

Timepiece - Intuitive date handling in Swift

Valet - Valet lets you securely store data in the iOS, tvOS, or macOS Keychain without knowing a thing about how the Keychain works. It’s easy. We promise.

SwiftMoment

Locksmith - A powerful, protocol-oriented library for working with the keychain in Swift.

TrueTime.swift - NTP library for Swift and Objective-C. Get the true time impervious to device clock changes.

SSKeychain

SwiftyTimer - Swifty API for NSTimer

CryptoSwift - CryptoSwift is a growing collection of standard and secure cryptographic algorithms implemented in Swift

iso-8601-date-formatter - A Cocoa NSFormatter subclass to convert dates to and from ISO-8601-formatted strings. Supports calendar, week, and ordinal formats.