List of Swift software and tools

This is a list of software and programming tools for the Swift programming language, which includes frameworks, libraries, IDEs, build tools, and related projects.

Frameworks, libraries, and APIs

• Alamofire — HTTP networking library
• Cocoa — Apple’s native API for macOS
• Cocoa Touch — variant of Cocoa for iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS.
• Kitura — web framework from IBM (now community maintained)
• Metal (API) – low-overhead hardware-accelerated 3D graphic and compute shader API
• Perfect — server-side Swift web framework
• RxSwift — reactive programming library for Swift
• SceneKit — A 3D graphics framework often used with Swift and SwiftUI for rendering scenes and animations
• SnapKit — Auto Layout DSL for iOS/macOS
• SwiftNIO — event-driven networking framework
• SwiftGraph — a graph data structure and algorithms library
• SwiftProtobuf — Protocol Buffers implementation for Swift
• SwiftUI – declarative framework for building user interfaces and Swift Charts for Apple operating systems
• SwiftyJSON — easier JSON handling in Swift
• Vapor — web application framework for Swift

Machine learning and AI

• Swift for TensorFlow — experimental deep learning framework from Google (discontinued, but open source)
• Core ML — Apple’s machine learning framework for on-device inference
• Create ML — Apple’s macOS app and framework for training ML models

Math and scientific computing

• Surge — Swift framework for linear algebra, DSP, and math functions
• Accelerate framework — Apple’s high-performance math and DSP library for Swift and Objective-C

Integrated development environments

• Xcode — Apple’s official IDE for Swift and Objective-C
• AppCode — IDE for Swift from JetBrains
• Swift Playgrounds — educational environment for iPad and macOS
• Visual Studio Code — with Swift extensions via SourceKit-LSP

Text editors with Swift support

• GNU Emacs — Swift mode and LSP support
• Sublime Text — Swift syntax and build system plugins
• TextMate – via official Swift bundle providing syntax highlighting and snippets
• Vim — via Swift Vim plugins and Neovim
• Visual Studio Code — Swift LSP support through SourceKit-LSP
• Zed — fork of Atom with support for Swift

Build tools and package managers

• Swift Package Manager (SwiftPM) — official dependency manager for Swift
• CocoaPods — dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C projects
• Carthage — decentralized dependency manager
• Bazel — build system with Swift rules support

Compilers and runtimes

• LLVM
• Swift for Windows — community distribution of Swift on Windows
• Swift WASM — Swift toolchain for WebAssembly

Debugging and profiling tools

• Instruments — performance analysis and profiling tool bundled with Xcode
• LLDB — debugger used by Swift (via LLVM project)
• Xcode memory graph debugger

Testing and quality assurance

• XCTest — official unit testing framework bundled with Swift
• Quick — behavior-driven development (BDD) framework
• Nimble — matcher framework often used with Quick

See also

• Apple Developer Tools
• Chris Lattner – original developer of Swift
• Lists of programming software development tools by language
• MoltenVK – software library which allows Vulkan applications to run on top of Metal

External links

• Swift.org — official Swift website
• Apple Swift GitHub repository
• Swift Package Index
• Swift documentation and Apple Developer Documentation
• awesome Swift — curated list of Swift libraries

References