Top 23 Carthage Open-Source Projects

1. Alamofire

   1 21 42,393 6.7 Swift

   Elegant HTTP Networking in Swift

   

   Project mention: Advanced Swift Package Management | dev.to | 2025-06-26

   // In your Package.swift - be strategic about ranges dependencies: [ .package(url: "https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire.git", "5.6.0"..<"6.0.0"), // Not: from: "5.8.0" (too restrictive) // Not: from: "5.0.0" (too loose) ]

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3. SDWebImage

   2 8 25,653 7.3 Objective-C

   Asynchronous image downloader with cache support as a UIImageView category

   

   Project mention: A novel approach to reusable web components | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-16

4. SwiftyJSON

   3 4 22,957 5.3 Swift

   The better way to deal with JSON data in Swift.

   

5. Hero

   4 7 22,458 4.0 Swift

   Elegant transition library for iOS & tvOS

   

6. Carthage

   5 6 15,174 0.0 Swift

   A simple, decentralized dependency manager for Cocoa

   

7. SwifterSwift

   6 2 15,088 6.0 Swift

   A handy collection of more than 500 native Swift extensions to boost your productivity.

   

8. CocoaLumberjack

   7 3 13,328 7.6 Objective-C

   A fast & simple, yet powerful & flexible logging framework for macOS, iOS, tvOS, watchOS and visionOS

   

9. SkeletonView

   8 3 12,873 0.0 Swift

   ☠️ An elegant way to show users that something is happening and also prepare them to which contents they are awaiting

   

10. SVProgressHUD

    9 0 12,463 5.9 Objective-C

    A clean and lightweight progress HUD for your iOS and tvOS app.

    

11. Eureka

    10 2 11,838 3.0 Swift

    Elegant iOS form builder in Swift (by xmartlabs)

    

12. NVActivityIndicatorView

    11 0 10,709 4.5 Swift

    A collection of awesome loading animations

    

13. FSCalendar

    12 5 10,659 2.1 Objective-C

    A fully customizable iOS calendar library, compatible with Objective-C and Swift

    

14. Quick

    13 4 9,830 4.3 Swift

    The Swift (and Objective-C) testing framework.

    

15. JVFloatLabeledTextField

    14 0 7,159 2.2 Objective-C

    UITextField subclass with floating labels - inspired by Matt D. Smith's design: http://dribbble.com/shots/1254439--GIF-Mobile-Form-Interaction?list=users

    

16. XLPagerTabStrip

    15 1 7,004 2.3 Swift

    Android PagerTabStrip for iOS.

    

17. SideMenu

    16 2 5,826 0.0 Swift

    Simple side/slide menu control for iOS, no code necessary! Lots of customization. Add it to your project in 5 minutes or less.

    

18. JLRoutes

    17 0 5,711 0.0 Objective-C

    URL routing library for iOS with a simple block-based API

    

19. CoreStore

    18 11 4,057 4.9 Swift

    Unleashing the real power of Core Data with the elegance and safety of Swift

    

20. XCGLogger

    19 2 3,989 7.6 Swift

    A debug log framework for use in Swift projects. Allows you to log details to the console (and optionally a file), just like you would have with NSLog() or print(), but with additional information, such as the date, function name, filename and line number.

    

21. Netfox

    20 0 3,751 1.5 Swift

    A lightweight, one line setup, iOS / OSX network debugging library! 🦊

    

22. SBJson

    21 1 3,720 5.5 Objective-C

    This framework implements a strict JSON parser and generator in Objective-C.

    

23. FoldingTabBar.iOS

    22 0 3,678 0.0 Objective-C

    Folding Tab Bar and Tab Bar Controller

    

24. Persei

    23 0 3,436 0.0 Swift

    Animated top menu for UITableView / UICollectionView / UIScrollView written in Swift

    

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