What are the most underrated third party libraries for Native iOS?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/iOSProgramming

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  • Chronology

    Robust and type-safe date and time calculations for Swift

  • swift-tagged

    🏷 A wrapper type for safer, expressive code.

  • I like Tagged https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-tagged

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • iCarousel

    A simple, highly customisable, data-driven 3D carousel for iOS and Mac OS

  • Not sure if underrated, but probably most impressive UI library https://github.com/nicklockwood/iCarousel

  • HandySwift

    Handy Swift features that didn't make it into the Swift standard library.

  • Eureka

    Elegant iOS form builder in Swift (by xmartlabs)

  • InAppSettingsKit

    This iOS framework allows settings to be in-app in addition to or instead of being in the Settings app.

  • Defaults

    💾 Swifty and modern UserDefaults

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • KeychainAccess

    Simple Swift wrapper for Keychain that works on iOS, watchOS, tvOS and macOS.

  • SwiftGen

    The Swift code generator for your assets, storyboards, Localizable.strings, … — Get rid of all String-based APIs!

  • SwiftLint

    A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.

  • LicensePlist

    A license list generator of all your dependencies for iOS applications

  • SwiftDate

    🐔 Toolkit to parse, validate, manipulate, compare and display dates, time & timezones in Swift.

  • Have you ever tried SwiftDate?

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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