xcbeautify is a little beautifier tool for xcodebuild.

A faster alternative to xcpretty written in Swift.

• Human-friendly and colored output.
• Supports the new build system's output.
• Supports Xcode's parallel testing output.
• Supports formatting Swift Package Manager output.
• Supports generating JUnit reports.
• Supports macOS & Linux.
• Written in Swift: xcbeautify compiles to a static binary which you can bring anywhere. This also means less Ruby-dependant in your development environment and CI.

brew install xcbeautify

mint install cpisciotta/xcbeautify

Create a directory in the same location as the xcodeproj file, for example BuildTools.
In that directory, create a Package.swift file with the following contents.
In addition, add an empty file named Empty.swift to the same location.

// swift-tools-version: 5.9
import PackageDescription

let package = Package(
    name: "BuildTools",
    platforms: [.macOS(.v10_11)],
    dependencies: [
      .package(url: "https://github.com/cpisciotta/xcbeautify", from: "1.7.0"),
    ],
    targets: [
      .target(name: "BuildTools", path: "")
    ]
)

Enter this command to execute.

swift run -c release --package-path ./BuildTools xcbeautify

git clone https://github.com/cpisciotta/xcbeautify.git
cd xcbeautify
make install

xcodebuild [flags] | xcbeautify

If you want xcbeautify to exit with the same status code as xcodebuild (e.g. on a CI):

set -o pipefail && xcodebuild [flags] | xcbeautify

For parallel and concurrent destination testing, it helps to use unbuffered I/O for stdout and to redirect stderr to stdout.

NSUnbufferedIO=YES xcodebuild [flags] 2>&1 | xcbeautify

swift test [flags] 2>&1 | xcbeautify

GitHub Actions Summary

GitHub Actions Comment

xcbeautify features an integrated GitHub Actions renderer that harnesses workflow commands to highlight warnings, errors, and results directly within the GitHub user interface. To utilize this function, simply run xcbeautify and add the --renderer github-actions flag during execution:

set -o pipefail && xcodebuild [flags] | xcbeautify --renderer github-actions

Generate Xcode project:

make xcode

Release a new version, e.g. x.y.z:

make release version=x.y.z

Please send a PR!