Top 22 Swift Appkit Projects

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1. CodeEdit

   1 25 21,945 8.9 Swift

   📝 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

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   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.

   

3. swiftui-introspect

   2 29 6,172 7.2 Swift

   Introspect underlying UIKit/AppKit components from SwiftUI

   

4. LocationSimulator

   3 29 2,698 4.1 Swift

   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

   4 1 2,209 0.0 Swift

   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

   5 19 1,450 5.4 Swift

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

   

7. STTextView

   6 2 1,304 9.4 Swift

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

   

8. RichTextKit

   7 3 1,147 8.0 Swift

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

   

9. Stream

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   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.

   

10. SwiftTerm

    8 1 1,111 7.4 Swift

    Xterm/VT100 Terminal emulator in Swift

    

11. swift-cross-ui

    9 8 1,094 9.5 Swift

    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

    10 2 1,080 7.6 Swift

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

    

13. BFKit-Swift

    11 0 1,001 0.0 Swift

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

    

14. Sourceful

    12 21 707 2.6 Swift

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

    

15. QRCode

    13 1 608 8.7 Swift

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

    

16. HackerNews

    14 5 433 3.5 Swift

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

    

17. Submariner

    15 1 156 8.9 Swift

    A Subsonic client for macOS (by SubmarinerApp)

    

18. Mastonaut

    16 2 120 8.7 Swift

    Simple, elegant, and native Mastodon client for Mac.

    

19. CompositionalLayoutDSL

    17 0 81 6.8 Swift

    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

    18 1 46 3.2 Swift

    Experimental email client for the ProtonMail service written in Swift.

    

21. Colors

    19 0 33 7.2 Swift

    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

    20 2 21 5.6 Swift

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

    

23. LMGTFYAsAService

    21 1 5 0.0 Swift

    macOS Service to help those who don't help themselves

    

24. ScreenUI

    22 0 4 0.0 Swift

    A multi-platform, multi-paradigm routing framework.

    

25. SaaSHub

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

    

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