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Top 23 Swift Appkit Projects
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CodeEdit
📝 CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever.
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AppSignal
Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.
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vorssaint-utils
Discontinued Free and open-source macOS menu bar toolkit. [Moved to: https://github.com/vorssaint/vorssaint-utils] (by vorssaintapp)
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LocationSimulator
MacOS application to spoof / fake / mock your iOS / iPadOS or iPhoneSimulator device location. WatchOS and TvOS are partially supported.
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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)
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Project mention: Show HN: Notepad.exe – macOS editor for Swift and Python (now Linux runtime) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-19
> Apple's on-device models for the AI?
no. Apple on-device models are not suitable for such a task. It uses a different model (I don't stick to one model in particular, as it may change)
> Does Swift have UI capabilities on Linux?
No. there are projects inspired by SwiftUI: https://github.com/stackotter/swift-cross-ui or https://git.aparoksha.dev/aparoksha/adwaita-swift (GNOME)
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Kargo
Stop Scripting Promotions. Start Shipping with Kargo. Kargo automates promotion across dev, staging, and prod with approval gates and verification. Open source, built by the team behind Argo CD. Download now.
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STTextView
Performant and reusable text view component (TextKit 2), with line numbers and more. UITextView / NSTextView replacement.
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BFKit-Swift
BFKit-Swift is a collection of useful classes, structs and extensions to develop Apps faster.
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QRCode
A quick and beautiful macOS/iOS/tvOS/watchOS QR Code generator/detector library for SwiftUI, Swift and Objective-C. (by dagronf)
Project mention: macOS/iOS/TvOS/watchOS QR Generator/Detector (SwiftUI/Swift/Obj-C) | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-11 -
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SwiftDraw
Native SVG parser and renderer for SwiftUI, UIKit and AppKit, with tools for PNG, PDF, SF Symbols and Swift source.
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HackerNews
macOS HackerNews client that aims to be a Mac-assed Mac app. Written in Swift + AppKit. (by goranmoomin)
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airstats
A menu bar system monitor for macOS. CPU, memory, GPU, network, disk, battery and thermals at 0.046% CPU.
Project mention: Show HN: AirStats – Mac menu bar system monitor, 0.046% CPU idle, MIT | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-18 -
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DynamicNotch
DynamicNotch is a macOS app that brings a Dynamic Island–style experience to Mac with a notch.
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PermissionFlow
Drag apps into the authorization window to easily grant macOS Sandbox/TCC permissions.
Project mention: macOS permission popup now can sit under System Settings with animated guidance | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-20 -
ContrastKit
ContrastKit is a Swift library designed to facilitate colour contrast handling within iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS applications. It provides developers with tools to automatically generate colour shades from any base colour and determine the most readable contrast colours according to established accessibility standards (AA Large, AA, and AAA).
ContrastKit: Is a Swift library design to facilitate colour contrast handling within iOS, IPadOS, macOS and tvOS applications.
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CATAI
Virtual desktop pet cats for macOS — pixel art cats that live on your dock and chat with you via Ollama LLM. (by wil-pe)
Project mention: Catai – Virtual pixel art cats for macOS that chat with you via Ollama | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-16 -
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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).
Swift Appkit discussion
Swift Appkit related posts
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Vorssaint – The modular Swiss Army knife for macOS
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Vorssaint – One menu bar icon doing the job of a dozen Mac apps
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Show HN: Karma in Menu Bar
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Show HN: HN karma in your menu bar
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Show HN: ClaudeBar – live Claude usage in your macOS menu bar
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FakeTraveler: Fake where your phone is located (Mock location for Android)
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Nerdy internals of an Apple text editor
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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 | 23,003 |
| 2 | vorssaint-utils | 16,851 |
| 3 | swiftui-introspect | 6,548 |
| 4 | LocationSimulator | 3,103 |
| 5 | Wave | 2,388 |
| 6 | Equinox | 2,062 |
| 7 | swift-cross-ui | 1,739 |
| 8 | SwiftTerm | 1,677 |
| 9 | STTextView | 1,589 |
| 10 | RichTextKit | 1,275 |
| 11 | Boutique | 1,132 |
| 12 | BFKit-Swift | 997 |
| 13 | QRCode | 718 |
| 14 | Sourceful | 713 |
| 15 | SwiftDraw | 643 |
| 16 | HackerNews | 442 |
| 17 | airstats | 291 |
| 18 | Submariner | 202 |
| 19 | DynamicNotch | 192 |
| 20 | Mastonaut | 118 |
| 21 | PermissionFlow | 100 |
| 22 | ContrastKit | 62 |
| 23 | CATAI | 47 |
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