Rui CarmoThis is a stub to start gathering some resources on Swift, which won several of my personal awards for “most breakages between major releases” and has therefore not been something I’ve invested a lot of time on.
In fact, I’ve yet to have a reason for building something with it (other than the occasional test), but it pays to keep an eye on things.
Resources
| Category | Date | Link | Notes |
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| Database | 2024 | Blackbird | a zero dependency SQLite database wrapper and model layer |
| Libraries | 2026 | bonsplit | A native macOS tab bar library with split pane support |
| 2025 | WorkKit | an amazing Swift package to parse documents from Apple’s iWork suite |
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| Noise | a Swift wrapper around Racket CS. |
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| SwiftAI | a Swift library for building AI applications |
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| 2024 | SyndiKit | A Swift library for RSS and Atom feeds |
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| Async-Channels | Performant channels for Swift concurrency |
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| 2016 | Markingbird | A Markdown libary |
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| Other | Building on ARMv7 | A concise walkthrough |
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| Runtimes | 2024 | LuaJIT-spm | A LuaJIT package |
| swift-rp-pico-bare | Embedded Swift on the Raspberry Pi Pico |
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| Samples | 2025 | winamp | A Winamp clone written in SwiftUI |
| 2024 | Swift-D3-Charts | Replicating D3 Charts with Swift Charts |
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| Tools | 2026 | MXMaster | A lightweight macOS utility for Logitech MX Master mice, replacing the bloated Logitech Options |
| AnsiSaver | An ANSI art screensaver for macOS that streams 16colo.rs packs via libansilove rendering |
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| swifdroid | Swift toolchain and frameworks for Android development |
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| 2024 | skip | a framework for creating dual-platform mobile apps in Swift and Kotlin |
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| bclm | a command line tool for limiting the battery’s max charge on macOS |
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| 2022 | textra | a nice CLI tool that uses VisionKit and speech recognition APIs to OCR documents and audio into text. |
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| Tutorials | Stanford University CS193p (Developing Applications for iOS using SwiftUI) | a pretty decent set of learning materials |