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  1. 360 VR Player

    iOS 360° panorama video player with Metal rendering support (formerly HTY360Player)

    Project mention: Show HN: Fisheye – iOS 360° panorama video player library using Metal | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-08

  2. SaaSHub

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  3. Apple-Silicon-Guide

    Apple Silicon Guide. Learn all about the A17 Pro, A16 Bionic, R1, M1-series, M2-series, and M3-series chips. Along with all the Devices, Operating Systems, Tools, Gaming, and Software that Apple Silicon powers.

  4. Bender

    Easily craft fast Neural Networks on iOS! Use TensorFlow models. Metal under the hood.

  5. BBMetalImage

    A high performance Swift library for GPU-accelerated image/video processing based on Metal.

  6. Shaft

    A cross-platform GUI framework for Swift, built for demanding workloads and developer ergonomics

  7. SwiftLM

    ⚡ Native MLX Swift LLM inference server for Apple Silicon. OpenAI-compatible API, SSD streaming for 100B+ MoE models, TurboQuant KV cache compression, MACOS + iOS iPhone app.

    Project mention: TurboQuant KV Compression and SSD Expert Streaming for M5 Pro 64GB MacBook Pro | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-01

    Claude Code helped me figure out this recipe, which worked (inspired by a similar workaround in the CI scripts):

      git clone --recursive https://github.com/SharpAI/SwiftLM.git

  8. metal-flash-attention

    FlashAttention (Metal Port)

  9. mapbox-maps-ios

    Interactive, thoroughly customizable maps for iOS powered by vector tiles and Metal

  10. Fabric

    Node Creative Coding / 3D / Image Processing tool inspired by Quartz Composer (by Fabric-Project)

    Project mention: Fabric Project | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-28

  11. GateEngine

    Swift Game Engine supporting Windows, Linux, macOS, HTML5, and more 🚂

  12. AsyncGraphics

    Edit images and video with Swift concurrency, powered by Metal.

  13. swifty-creatives

    Creative coding framework for Swift. Built on Apple's Metal. Inspired by Processing. Supports visionOS.

  14. apple-metal-sketch-dojo

    Graphics and animations with the Apple Metal API

  15. Anime4KMetal

    Anime4K for Apple platforms based on Metal

  16. reality-shaders-example

    Demonstrates using ARKit in iOS to apply metal shaders to real world surfaces

  17. Art-in-Swift

    A collection of interactive animations made with code in Swift Playgrounds app

  18. pebble

    The open-source alternative to Minecraft: Java Edition, a complete block-survival game in ~45,000 lines of Swift + Metal. Zero dependencies, fully deterministic, singleplayer for now. Not affiliated with Mojang or Microsoft. We lowkey need y'all to submit bug reports cuz there are so many 😭 (by thebriangao)

    Project mention: Show HN: Pebble, an open-source alternative to Minecraft: Java Edition | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-13

  19. MetalBuilder

    Declarative dispatching of Metal shaders from SwiftUI views

  20. ar-multipendulum

    The first affordable AR headset experience

  21. TransformGesture

    Handle two finger transformation gesture in SwiftUI and Metal views

  22. ToyFlightSimulator

    Toy Flight Simulator implemented with Swift and Metal

  23. MetalSnapshotTaker

    Exports images of arbitrary size from MTKView subclasses

  24. MetalHelloTriangle

    Code example

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 Metal projects in Swift? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 360 VR Player 2,148
2 Apple-Silicon-Guide 1,880
3 Bender 1,799
4 BBMetalImage 1,031
5 Shaft 695
6 SwiftLM 688
7 metal-flash-attention 593
8 mapbox-maps-ios 592
9 Fabric 524
10 GateEngine 432
11 AsyncGraphics 417
12 swifty-creatives 293
13 apple-metal-sketch-dojo 159
14 Anime4KMetal 159
15 reality-shaders-example 96
16 Art-in-Swift 92
17 pebble 68
18 MetalBuilder 64
19 ar-multipendulum 44
20 TransformGesture 34
21 ToyFlightSimulator 12
22 MetalSnapshotTaker 8
23 MetalHelloTriangle 4

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