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Top 23 Swift Metal Projects

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  1. turbo-fieldfare

    Gemma 4 26B-A4B inference in ~2 GB of RAM on any M-series MacBook

    Project mention: Qwen 3.8 27B is out: open weights, best local dense model yet | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-14

  2. AppSignal

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  3. 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

  4. 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.

  5. Bender

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

  6. BBMetalImage

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

  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: How much faster is macOS CI on dedicated runners? Five open-source projects, measured | dev.to | 2026-09-09

    Verify: Manzanita run · GitHub-hosted baseline

  8. Shaft

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

  9. SaaSHub

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  10. metal-flash-attention

    FlashAttention (Metal Port)

  11. mapbox-maps-ios

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

  12. 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

  13. GateEngine

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

  14. AsyncGraphics

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

  15. swifty-creatives

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

  16. pebble

    The open-source alternative to Minecraft: Java Edition, a complete block-survival game in about 45,000 lines of Swift + Metal. Zero dependencies, fully deterministic, singleplayer for now. Not affiliated with Mojang or Microsoft. (by thebriangao)

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

  17. redlamp

    A native, open-source RAW photo editor for Mac, iPad and iPhone that feels immediately familiar to Lightroom users.

    Project mention: Free open source Adobe Lightroom alternative local | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-10-08

  18. Anime4KMetal

    Anime4K for Apple platforms based on Metal

  19. apple-metal-sketch-dojo

    Graphics and animations with the Apple Metal API

  20. reality-shaders-example

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

  21. Art-in-Swift

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

  22. subjective-zero

    The agentic node editor for live visual effects

    Project mention: Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production? | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-09-03

    That being said, I’ve been bitten by the usual suspects: too many tools will cause context windows to grow quickly and some agents will sometimes skim through a subset of the tool list without querying the entire thing, causing incorrect behavior.

    If you have tokens to burn I invite you to check out the source code see how extensively it’s being used: https://github.com/sxp-studio/subjective-zero

  23. MetalBuilder

    Declarative dispatching of Metal shaders from SwiftUI views

  24. ar-multipendulum

    The first affordable AR headset experience

  25. TransformGesture

    Handle two finger transformation gesture in SwiftUI and Metal views

  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 Metal projects in Swift? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 turbo-fieldfare 6,868
2 360 VR Player 2,136
3 Apple-Silicon-Guide 1,893
4 Bender 1,799
5 BBMetalImage 1,041
6 SwiftLM 778
7 Shaft 731
8 metal-flash-attention 613
9 mapbox-maps-ios 601
10 Fabric 590
11 GateEngine 435
12 AsyncGraphics 420
13 swifty-creatives 300
14 pebble 236
15 redlamp 218
16 Anime4KMetal 165
17 apple-metal-sketch-dojo 162
18 reality-shaders-example 96
19 Art-in-Swift 91
20 subjective-zero 75
21 MetalBuilder 64
22 ar-multipendulum 43
23 TransformGesture 34

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