Swift Appkit

Open-source Swift projects categorized as Appkit

Top 22 Swift Appkit Projects

  1. CodeEdit

    📝 CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever.

    Project mention: CodeEditApp/CodeEdit: CodeEdit App for macOS – open-source, free forever | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-12
  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. swiftui-introspect

    Introspect underlying UIKit/AppKit components from SwiftUI

  4. LocationSimulator

    MacOS application to spoof / fake / mock your iOS / iPadOS or iPhoneSimulator device location. WatchOS and TvOS are partially supported.

    Project mention: FakeTraveler: Fake where your phone is located (Mock location for Android) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-30

    It's a lot more simple these days with modern iOS versions: https://schlaubischlump.github.io/LocationSimulator/

  5. Wave

    Wave is a spring-based animation engine for iOS and macOS that makes it easy to create fluid, interruptible animations that feel great. (by jtrivedi)

  6. Equinox

    🌇 🌃 Create dynamic wallpapers for macOS. (by rlxone)

  7. STTextView

    Performant and reusable text view component (TextKit 2), with line numbers and more. UITextView / NSTextView replacement.

  8. RichTextKit

    A library that lets you view and edit rich text in Swift and SwiftUI.

  9. Stream

    Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

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  10. SwiftTerm

    Xterm/VT100 Terminal emulator in Swift

  11. swift-cross-ui

    A cross-platform declarative UI framework, inspired by SwiftUI.

    Project mention: Swift Cross UI: A cross-platform declarative UI framework, inspired by SwiftUI | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-03
  12. Boutique

    ✨ A magical persistence library (and so much more) for state-driven iOS and Mac apps ✨

  13. BFKit-Swift

    BFKit-Swift is a collection of useful classes, structs and extensions to develop Apps faster.

  14. Sourceful

    A syntax highlighting source editor for iOS and macOS using UITextView and NSTextView.

  15. QRCode

    A quick and beautiful macOS/iOS/tvOS/watchOS QR Code generator/detector library for SwiftUI, Swift and Objective-C. (by dagronf)

  16. HackerNews

    macOS HackerNews client that aims to be a Mac-assed Mac app. Written in Swift + AppKit. (by goranmoomin)

  17. Submariner

    A Subsonic client for macOS (by SubmarinerApp)

  18. Mastonaut

    Simple, elegant, and native Mastodon client for Mac.

  19. CompositionalLayoutDSL

    CompositionalLayoutDSL, library to simplify the creation of UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout. It wraps the UIKit API and makes the code shorter and easier to read.

  20. protonmail-macos

    Experimental email client for the ProtonMail service written in Swift.

  21. Colors

    Colors is a Swift Package to enable all system colors in SwiftUI trough a Color extension. Colors which were previously only available in UIColor/NSColor are now available in Color as well. (by 0xWDG)

  22. ContributorUI

    A UI library for iOS and macOS applications to showcase all contributors of public or private repositories.

  23. LMGTFYAsAService

    macOS Service to help those who don't help themselves

  24. ScreenUI

    A multi-platform, multi-paradigm routing framework.

  25. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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  • FakeTraveler: Fake where your phone is located (Mock location for Android)

    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2024
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    1 project | /r/Mastodon | 23 May 2023
  • ContributorUI: A UI library for macOS and iOS applications to showcase all contributors of public or private repositories

    1 project | /r/macosprogramming | 20 Mar 2023
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Appkit projects in Swift? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 CodeEdit 21,945
2 swiftui-introspect 6,172
3 LocationSimulator 2,698
4 Wave 2,209
5 Equinox 1,450
6 STTextView 1,304
7 RichTextKit 1,147
8 SwiftTerm 1,111
9 swift-cross-ui 1,094
10 Boutique 1,080
11 BFKit-Swift 1,001
12 Sourceful 707
13 QRCode 608
14 HackerNews 433
15 Submariner 156
16 Mastonaut 120
17 CompositionalLayoutDSL 81
18 protonmail-macos 46
19 Colors 33
20 ContributorUI 21
21 LMGTFYAsAService 5
22 ScreenUI 4

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