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r/swift on 2026-10-21
- 1I built Graffle, an open-source diagramming and vector graphics app for macOS using Swift and AppKitGraffle, an open-source diagramming and vector graphics app for macOS using Swift and AppKit Hey everyone! I've been working on a personal project called Graffle , a native macOS application for creating diagrams and vector graphics. I…by u/Dull-Connection5879 · first seen 2026-10-18 · last seen 2026-10-24 · in 6 captures
- 2I made a disk usage tool in Swift, and on macOS it beats the Rust ones (dua, dust, diskus)szt (short for sizetree) scans a folder and prints a tree of where the space went: biggest first, every folder with the total of everything inside it, opened up only where the space is. Swift turned out to be a great fit for it. Scanning…by u/ittrut · first seen 2026-10-20 · last seen 2026-10-24 · in 4 captures
- 3Swift Pro: a Swift plugin I’ve been building for IntelliJ IDEAI’ve been working on Swift Pro and wanted to share it here. It’s a commercial Swift plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, built around the IDE’s usual editors, toolbars, run configurations and test runner. It brings together compiler completion and…by u/bodiam · first seen 2026-10-17 · last seen 2026-10-23 · in 6 captures
- 4What's new in Swift: September 2026 Editionby u/dwaxe · first seen 2026-10-21 · last seen 2026-10-24 · in 3 captures
- 5NoteKit: an in-place Markdown editor for SwiftUI apps (TextKit 2, zero deps, MIT)NoteKit is a Markdown editor for Mac and iOS built on the system text view (TextKit 2). You see the Markdown source, styled in place as you type. No dependencies, MIT, macOS 14 / iOS 17. https://github.com/tfcace/notekit Markers like #…by u/nutcrook · first seen 2026-10-19 · last seen 2026-10-24 · in 5 captures
- 6After 6 years, I am moving on from my hobby project.I started on CoinCurrently with less than 1 year of experience. iOS 14 had just come out, SwiftUI was brand new, and Home Screen widgets were one of the new features. I figured I’d try to make a couple of widgets and see what happens. I…by u/barcode972 · first seen 2026-10-19 · last seen 2026-10-24 · in 5 captures
- 7Anyone letting agents drive their app in the Simulator? Looking for feedbackI’ve been working on Argent, an open-source MCP server that lets your agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.) tap through your app in the iOS Simulator, read the view hierarchy and logs, and profile with Instruments. That way it can…by u/blazejkustra · first seen 2026-10-15 · last seen 2026-10-21 · in 7 captures
- 8Noctule 4.0 released · cross-platform Swift and Objective-CI’d like to share Noctule, a plugin I made for cross-platform Swift development in JetBrains IDEs and Android Studio. It’s a freemium plugin: most editor features and the Swift Package Manager integration are free, while Xcode integration…by u/Smart_Appointment927 · first seen 2026-10-21 · last seen 2026-10-24 · in 3 captures
- 9is learning swift (even the basics) a useful skill to have?to keep it clear, I’m a 17 year old high school student, and my dream job would be to be a programmer. as of now I can write basic code in both C++ and HTML, and I was interested in learning swift just for the sake of it and was wondering…by u/ELIO400 · first seen 2026-10-20 · last seen 2026-10-24 · in 4 captures
- 10libark: libark is a modern, secure, Swift-native foundational layer over Linux POSIX primitives.libark libark is a modern, secure, Swift-native foundational layer over Linux POSIX primitives. While originally developed as the core runtime layer for ArkOS , libark is completely decoupled and designed to be used on any Linux…by u/Ok_Sky3062 · first seen 2026-10-14 · last seen 2026-10-21 · in 8 captures
- 11Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #158by u/fatbobman3000 · first seen 2026-10-19 · last seen 2026-10-24 · in 5 captures
- 12Free ASO tool for App Store and Google Play: open source, self-hosted, daily rank tracking (AsoBeast)I'm the developer. It's written in TypeScript, for the part after your Swift app ships. What frustrated me about ASO tools: They charge per app, per keyword or per seat, which adds up fast for an indie app. I ship on iOS and Android and…by u/Adex77 · first seen 2026-10-18 · last seen 2026-10-24 · in 6 captures
- 13full screen detection breaks on notched macbooks (the window bounds trick doesn't work)ran into this while working on a small mac utility, figured someone else might hit it too i wanted to know when the user has something full screen (youtube in chrome, a movie, a game etc) so the app gets out of the way. the usual trick is…by u/drkyksl · first seen 2026-10-20 · last seen 2026-10-24 · in 4 captures
- 14I built TactileBar, a hardware-inspired macOS menu bar app. Your feedback shaped v1.4: a radial launcher at the cursor (⌃⌥Space)A few weeks ago I shared TactileBar here, and way more people saw it than I expected. Thank you to everyone who commented, gave it a star, or opened an issue. Some of that feedback went straight into the last few releases, so here's…by u/Familiar-Ad9128 · first seen 2026-10-21 · last seen 2026-10-24 · in 3 captures
- 15Kabaal v1.2Would love your (respectful) feedback on my app. I’m not here to promote. How do you like the editing experience? Does it provide the features you need? Is everything intuitively clear? https://www.flowstate-interactive.com/kabaal/ Thank…by u/d4cloo · first seen 2026-10-20 · last seen 2026-10-24 · in 4 captures
- 16Open Source Swift UI coder editorI haven't switched to Mac yet because of the crazy exchange rate, and also a lot of my work needs Windows. I really like SwiftUI, but I don't know enough of it to warrant buying a MacBook at this time, since React Native gets the job done…by u/KevinCoderRSA · first seen 2026-10-19 · last seen 2026-10-24 · in 5 captures
- 17What broke (and what didn't) running untrusted Swift in the browserI'm building SwiftQuest, a course where every exercise compiles and runs on a real Swift toolchain. A few things I learned along the way: One throwaway gVisor container per run. It runs on arm64 Linux, with no network, a read-only system,…by u/SwiftQuest · first seen 2026-10-15 · last seen 2026-10-21 · in 7 captures
- 18MenuBarExtra or NSStatusItem/NSPanel: which interaction requirements drove your choice?I'm exploring menu-bar interaction design for my macOS project, SummonOS. The requirements I'm interested in are keyboard access, focus while another app is active, window ordering and content that changes while the panel is open. I'm…by u/Comfortable_Cat_6207 · first seen 2026-10-21 · last seen 2026-10-24 · in 3 captures
- 19I built a calendar where each event has its own tasksHi r/swift Over the past few years, I've been building a productivity app to replace both my calendar and to do apps. It's called Zesfy and you can directly add your daily tasks right inside calendar events instead schedule them one by…by u/whatinsidethebox · first seen 2026-10-19 · last seen 2026-10-24 · in 5 captures
- 20Show: a SwiftUI disk cleaner with a getattrlistbulk + FSEvents incremental indexI built Ammugghia after finding 100 GB of "System Data" on my MacBook Air: it was mostly iOS Simulator runtimes and Xcode/Gradle caches that Finder doesn't show. Native SwiftUI, signed & notarized, no network, MIT Covers Xcode,…by u/Sajus7 · first seen 2026-10-16 · last seen 2026-10-21 · in 6 captures
- 21iPhone Duo Group Lab 10/13/26 - Q&Aby u/lanserxt · first seen 2026-10-15 · last seen 2026-10-21 · in 7 captures
- 22Maths, Metal, Mandelbrot, and SwiftUIby u/jacobs-tech-tavern · first seen 2026-10-20 · last seen 2026-10-24 · in 4 captures
- 23The iOS Weekly Brief: Issue #82. Everything you need to know about Swift updates this weekby u/IllBreadfruit3087 · first seen 2026-10-16 · last seen 2026-10-21 · in 6 captures
- 24iPhone Duo Group Lab 10/15/26 - Q&Aby u/lanserxt · first seen 2026-10-16 · last seen 2026-10-21 · in 6 captures
- 25File converterHello everyone, I need your help. Do you know some libraries for convert files, for example to convert .pages to .pdf. I build an app, for me, where I can convert many different files into another format. Maybe I need more libraries than…by u/VirtualMycologist406 · first seen 2026-10-16 · last seen 2026-10-21 · in 6 captures
- 26I managed to implement SwiftData + CloudKit Sharing in my appHi everyone! I saw a few discussions about SwiftData that don’t support CloudKit sharing for collaboration yet. I was myself searching for a solution after building my app around SwiftData and when I wanted to add collaboration…by u/Apprehensive-Bet2844 · first seen 2026-10-16 · last seen 2026-10-21 · in 6 captures
- 27kinhin: scale your Mac’s CI runners to your queuekinhin watches your CI queue and, for each queued job, starts a fresh VM or container on your Apple silicon Mac, registers a one-job runner, and deletes it afterwards. Nothing idles and nothing is left over. It works with GitHub Actions,…by u/rabinapps · first seen 2026-10-17 · last seen 2026-10-23 · in 6 captures
- 28how am i doing?Just released my app a few days ago, havnt really done any marketing yet. How would yall say im doing so far??by u/Overall_Picture_9061 · first seen 2026-10-14 · last seen 2026-10-21 · in 8 captures
- 29What do you wish subscription tracker apps did better?Hey everyone! I've been exploring the idea of building an iOS subscription tracker, but after looking at existing apps, I realized that features like renewal reminders, spending summaries, and subscription calendars are already pretty…by u/jojojoester · first seen 2026-10-19 · last seen 2026-10-24 · in 5 captures
- 30Had a second brain idea while taking a walk and started the build right on my phone ASC approved it in one tryWhile taking a walk early last month I got fed up about how my docs were getting buried in my pile of 100s of notes PRDs and many other docs unstructured in my notes. An agent scaffolded the first iOS, mac app and MCP bridge in a Linux VM…by u/Emojinapp · first seen 2026-10-18 · last seen 2026-10-24 · in 6 captures
- 31I got so fed up managing iTerm2 windows that I wrote my own terminal in SwiftAt any given moment I have 4 or 5 projects going, and each one has its own little cluster of terminals: a dev server, a log tail, an SSH session to some box, a shell for git. In iTerm2 that meant a pile of windows I kept losing track of.…by u/felltrifortence · first seen 2026-10-21 · last seen 2026-10-24 · in 3 captures