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Top 23 Swift Cocoa Projects

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  1. Carthage

    A simple, decentralized dependency manager for Cocoa

    Project mention: Xcode and Gradle: Two worlds, one infrastructure | dev.to | 2026-10-07

    In the early days of Tuist, we invested heavily in project generation. For context: Xcode projects are stored as .xcodeproj files, a format that is notoriously difficult to manage at scale and causes constant merge conflicts in teams. Tuist lets you define your project in Swift and generates the Xcode project from that definition. Later, drawing ideas from package managers like Carthage (a dependency manager for Apple platforms that builds frameworks from source), we built module-level binary caching on top of it. You can see how this looks in practice on our own project's cache dashboard. Because we understand the project graph, we can determine which modules have not changed, replace them with pre-compiled binaries, and generate a project that skips compiling them entirely. This happens before the build even starts. It requires deep knowledge of the dependency graph and control over how the project is generated, which is why it is tightly coupled to Tuist's project generation layer.

  2. AppSignal

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  3. CotEditor

    Lightweight Plain Text Editor for macOS

    Project mention: CotEditor: Plain-Text Editor for macOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-22

  4. vimr

    VimR — Neovim GUI for macOS in Swift

  5. Latest

    A small utility app for macOS that makes sure you know about all the latest updates to the apps you use.

    Project mention: Ask HN: Replacement for MacUpdater which reached EOL on 2026-01-01 | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-03

  6. BetterSegmentedControl

    An easy to use, customizable replacement for UISegmentedControl & UISwitch.

  7. SwiftyAttributes

    A Swifty API for attributed strings

  8. NSWindowStyles

    A showcase of the many different styles of windows possible with NSWindow on macOS

  9. SaaSHub

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

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  10. sentry-cocoa

    The official Sentry SDK for iOS, tvOS, macOS, watchOS, iPadOS and visionOS.

  11. USBDeviceSwift

    wrapper for IOKit.usb and IOKit.hid written on pure Swift that allows you convenient work with USB devices

  12. RadialMenu

    RadialMenu is a custom control for providing a touch context menu (like iMessage recording in iOS 8) built with Swift & POP (by bradjasper)

  13. CocoaTextField

    Apple TextField created according to the Material.IO guidelines of 2019. Featured at Medium.

  14. SimpleSidebar

    Three beautiful macOS sidebars. Two built in Cocoa, and the third in SwiftUI.

  15. Komet

    Cocoa editor for creating commit messages

  16. Throttler

    One Line to throttle, debounce and delay: Say Goodbye to Reactive Programming such as RxSwift and Combine. (by boraseoksoon)

  17. remember

    Stash distractions away for later. (by Bogdanp)

  18. BlockiesSwift

    Unique blocky identicons generator for Swift

  19. Thingy

    A modern device detection and querying library.

  20. PreviewDevice

    PreviewDevice - is a library with type-safe syntax sugar for preview device on SwiftUI. Preview for UIKit and Cocoa.

  21. ReusableViews

    Idiomatic instantiation and dequeuing

  22. WKTypeScript

    This project has been discontinued. See TypeSwift/TypeSwift for the next iteration of this project:

  23. Composite

    Composite Smart Contract Editor (by MoonfishApp)

  24. LMGTFYAsAService

    macOS Service to help those who don't help themselves

  25. LaunchGuardKit

    An open source development kit for the components featured in LaunchGuard for macOS

  26. SaaSHub

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

# Project Stars
1 Carthage 15,165
2 CotEditor 8,576
3 vimr 7,008
4 Latest 4,810
5 BetterSegmentedControl 2,411
6 SwiftyAttributes 1,626
7 NSWindowStyles 1,209
8 sentry-cocoa 1,125
9 USBDeviceSwift 315
10 RadialMenu 302
11 CocoaTextField 271
12 SimpleSidebar 230
13 Komet 190
14 Throttler 166
15 remember 116
16 BlockiesSwift 68
17 Thingy 60
18 PreviewDevice 51
19 ReusableViews 51
20 WKTypeScript 29
21 Composite 9
22 LMGTFYAsAService 5
23 LaunchGuardKit 4

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