A collaborative list of awesome Swift resources,inspired by awesome-python and listed on awesome-awesomeness.

Feel free to contribute!

• Awesome Swift
  • Demo Apps
    • iOS
    • OS X
  • Dependency Managers
  • Guides
  • Editor Support
    • Vim
  • Libs
    • API
    • Auto Layout
    • Colors
    • Cryptography
    • Data Management
      • Core Data
      • JSON
      • SQLite
    • Date
    • Events
    • Fonts
    • iBeacon
    • Images
    • Keyboard
    • Math
    • Network
    • Security
    • System
    • Testing
    • UI
    • Utility
    • Webserver
  • Misc
  • Tools
    • Documentation

Some interesting demo/poc apps written in swift.

A list of iOS swift demo apps

• 2048 - 2048 demo game in swift.
• Alarm - an alarm app in swift.
• Chat - chat like app implementation in swift.
• CloudKit-To-Do-List - a cloudkit based to do list.
• DeckRocket - deckrocket porting in swift.
• Edhita - text edit app.
• Eidolon - The Artsy auction kiosk app.
• firefox-ios - firefox for iOS being developed by Mozilla.
• Federal Open Data - Get federal Open Data using the Federal Data SDK
• FlappySwift - flappy bird clone in swift.
• HackerNews - hackernews reader app written in swift.
• HausClock - chess stile clock app in swift.
• HomeKitDemo - homekit demo app;
• iContactU - delivered on Apple Store: reminds you to contact people you ought to.
• KeychainDemo - keychain sharing between an App and it's share extension
• LayerPlayer - explores CALayer and subclasses; written in Swift; also on App Store
• MyAwesomeChecklist - checklist app in swift.
• Pocket Forecast - typhoon weather example
• ReactiveSwiftFlickrSearch - an MVVM & ReactiveCocoa Flickr search app in swift.
• Round & Split - a tip calculator in swift
• SwiftDemo - a collection of demo for swift.
• SwiftFlickrApp - flickr app written in swift.
• SwiftHN - hacker news app in swift.
• SwiftWeather - a nice weather app written in swift.
• TextEthan - a clone of TextEthan, a messaging app that allows anyone to message you
• Task - a task app written in Swift that is published in the app store.
• Valio - event time table app in swift.

A list of OSX swift demo apps

• clock-saver - a clock screen saver for osx written in swift.
• dshb - OS X system monitor in Swift

Dependency manager software for swift.

• acli - downloads repos from command line listed in awesome-swift readme.
• carthage - a new dependencymanager for swift.
• cocoapods - the most used dependency manager for Objective-C (swift is still in porting).

An awesome list of swift related guides.

• A better way to learn swift - Learn swift in a different way.
• Apple eBook - Official Apple eBook for swift beginners.
• Developing iOS 8 Apps with Swift - Stanford course by Paul Hegarty.
• Learn Swift - a collection of tuts that will help you learning swift via playground.
• Practice Swift - an interesting guide to learn swift.
• SwiftDoc - Auto-generated documentation for Swift.
• SwiftGuide CN - A chinese written guide for swift.
• SwiftInFlux - A well explained list of feature in flux for swift
• Swift Style Guide - Raywenderlich swift guide, a must read.
• Swift Tips - Swift tips collection.
• Swift-Weekly - Weekly Swift Language Gems, Tips and Tricks

Support for your favorite editors.

• swift-vim - play swift with vim editor.
• vim-swift - adds swift support to vim. It covers syntax, indenting, and more.
• vim-polyglot - language pack for vim that includes vim-swift.

Here you can find a list of snippets and libs for your swift projects.

Quick libs to get access to third party API services

• GooglePlacesAutocomplete - Simple Google Places address entry for iOS.
• Swifter Twitter - Swifter Twitter framework for swift.
• Typhoon - Dependency injection toolkit in swift.
• Federal Data SDK - Eases access to multiple federal government OpenGov APIs

Bored of using storyboard? Give a try to declarative auto layout libs.

• Cartography - declarative auto layout lib for your project.
• Snappy - a light-weight layout framework which wraps AutoLayout with nicer syntax.
• SwiftBox - Flexbox in Swift, using Facebook's css-layout.
• SwiftAutoLayout - a small DSL for autolayout.
• Tails - declarative autolayout for ios app written in swift.
• VFLToolbox - fancy Swift implementation of the Visual Format Language

Interesting snippets related to color management and utility.

• HexColor - define UIColors as hex integers.
• PrettyColors - Styles and colors text in the Terminal with ANSI escape codes. Conforms to ECMA Standard 48
• UIColor-Hex-Swift - an hex to uicolor converter.
• UIColorWDUtils - extension for hex RGB(A).

Deal with cryptography method easily in swift

• CryptoSwift - add crypto lib support to swift.
• SwiftSSL - add crypto toolkit in swift.

No more pain with Core Data, here listed some interesting lib to handle data management.

• AERecord - super awesome Core Data wrapper library for iOS written in Swift.
• AlecrimCoreData - a simple CoreData wrapper library written in Swift.
• SugarRecord - an easy with to work with coredata and realm.
• SuperRecord - A small set of utilities to make working with CoreData and Swift a bit easier.
• QueryKit - an easy way to play with coredata filtering within your swift projects.

Struggling using json data? Here you are some interesting way to handle it.

• Argo - Json parsing library
• json-swift - A basic library for working with JSON in swift.
• JSONHelper - lightning fast JSON deserialization and value conversion library for iOS & OS X written in swift.
• ObjectMapper - JSON object mapper.
• Pistachio - Generic model framework for Swift.
• SwiftyJSON - A lib for JSON in swift with error handling.
• SwiftMapper - JSON Mapper.
• SwiftJSONParser - JSON parser.

Are you interested in storing your app data using SQLite? Here some interesting resources.

• SQLite.swift - A pure Swift framework wrapping SQLite3. Small. Simple. Safe.
• SQLiteDB - sqlite wrapper for swift.
• SwiftData - simple and Effective SQLite Handling in Swift.

If you prefer to manage XML data formatted entries, here some helpful libs

• AEXML - xml wrapper

Handle data formatting easily.

• AFDateHelper - Simple date helper.
• Swift-NSDate-Extensions - Swift Version of Erica's NSDate Extensions.
• SwiftMoment - A time and calendar manipulation library.

Alternatives to NSNotificationCenter, Key-Value-Observation, or delegation.

• EmitterKit - an implementation of event emitters and listeners in swift.
• Signals - replaces delegates and notifications.
• SwiftEventBus - A publish/subscribe event bus optimized for iOS.

A collection of font related snippets.

• GoogleMaterialDesignIcons - google Material Design Icons Font for iOS.
• MCFontAwesome - fontawesome porting for swift.
• SwiftFonts - render all the supported fonts in swift.

Interested in using iBeacon in your swift project? Here some interesting resources.

• iBeacon - iBeacon implementation in swift.

An interesting list of image related libs..

• CYFastImage - display images from web.
• gifu - highly performant animated GIF support for iOS in Swift.
• ImageScout - a Swift implementation of fastimage. supports PNG, GIF, and JPEG.
• PASImageView - async remote download your image and round them. automatically.
• SwiftColorArt - font schema generator according image colours.
• SwiftGif - A small UIImage extension with gif support
• Toucan - Image processing api
• UIImageView-BetterFace-Swift - autoresize images and if any face discovered refine the position of the image.

Do you want to create your own customized keyboard? Here some interesting resources

• Hodor Keyboard - poc for custom keyboard implementation.

• Surge - Accelerate framework for swift.
• swix - A general matrix language.

A list of libs that allow you to decrease the amount of time spent to deal with http requests.

• agent - http request agent.
• Alamofire - elegant networking in swift.
• GRequest - http request handler.
• IJReachability - check for network connection availability.
• ModestProposal - an HTTP toolbox.
• Moya - network abstraction layer.
• Net - an httprequest wrapper.
• OAuth2 - oauth2 auth lib.
• OAuthSwift - Swift based OAuth library for iOS.
• RSNetworking - Network library written purely in Swift.
• Starscream - websockets implementation in swift.
• SwiftHTTP - NSURLSession wrapper.
• YYHRequest-Swift - http request in async.

• KeyClip - Keychain framework for iOS written in Swift.
• iOS-TouchID-Swift - TouchID for Swift.
• JMEasyTouchID - TouchID one line wrapper.
• SwiftKeychainWrapper - a simple static wrapper for the iOS Keychain to allow you to use it in a similar fashion to user defaults.

Manage your device sensors in a faster and easier way

• MotionKit - iOS device sensors wrapper

• SMCKit - Apple SMC library in Swift
• SystemKit - OS X system library in Swift

A collection of testing frameworks.

• Quick - Quick is a behavior-driven development framework for Swift and Objective-C.
• Sleipnir - BDD-style framework for Swift.
• Swiftest - experimental BDD-style framework.

A collection of pre-packaged transitions & cool ui stuffs.

• Adaptive Tab Bar - adaptive tab bar.
• BreakOutToRefresh - A playable pull to refresh view using SpriteKit
• BWWalkthrough - A class to build custom walkthroughs for your iOS App.
• CharacterText - perform fx on UILabel.
• ENSwiftSideMenu - sliding side menu.
• FloatLabelFields - text entry controls which contain a built-in title/label so that you don't have to add a separate title for each field.
• FloatRatingView - floating rating system.
• FrostedSidebar - Hamburger Menu using Swift and iOS 8 API's.
• Geometry - extensions for UIView.
• GoogleWearAlert - Google Wear Alert style.
• hamburger button transition - Hamburger button transition.
• JTToast - Toast for swift.
• MediumScrollFullScreen - Medium scroll style menubar.
• Pagemenu - Pagination enabled view controller.
• Panoramic - Panoramic facebook story clone.
• PeerKit - An open-source Swift framework for building event-driven, zero-config Multipeer Connectivity apps.
• PinterestSwift - Pinterest style transition.
• PKHUD - Reimplementation of the Apple HUD.
• PNChart-Swift - A simple and beautiful chart lib with animation
• PPSwiftGifs - a convenient way to show animated GIF images as a part of iOS GUI.
• PullToRefreshSwift - cool PullToRefresh library written in pure swift.
• SCLAlertView - Animated Alert view.
• Spring - A library to simplify iOS animations in Swift.
• SweetAlert - Alert system.
• SwiftOverlays - various popups and notifications.
• TextFieldEffects - Several ready to use effects for UITextFields
• ZFRippleButton - A ripple button animation.

Some interesting utilities that help you in your projects

• __ - Underscore.js power in your swift projects.
• Async – Syntactic swift sugar for Grand Central Dispatch
• Async.legacy – Syntactic swift sugar for Grand Central Dispatch (iOS 7 and OS X 10.9 Mavericks compatible fork)
• AwesomeCache - manage cache easy in your swift project.
• BrightFutures - promise and future lib for swift.
• CLIKit - a way to create cli with swift.
• Collection Each - add each func to collections.
• CommandLine - A pure Swift library for creating command-line interfaces
• Dispatcher - Queues, timers, and task groups in Swift
• Dollar - a lib similar to Lo-Dash or Underscore in Javascript.
• ExSwift - a set of swift extensions for standard types and classes.
• LlamaKit - Collection of must-have functional Swift tools.
• Mendel - Swift miliframework for implementing evolutionary/genetic algorithms.
• PromiseKit - async promise programming lib.
• Prototope - Swift library of lightweight interfaces for prototyping, bridged to JS.
• Pythonic.swift - Pythonic tool-belt for Swift: a Swift implementation of selected parts of Python standard library.
• SpecificationPattern - chainable rules useful for form validation.
• SwiftBitmask - Bitmask<T> type intended as a replacement for RawOptionSet.
• SwiftColors - HEX color handling as an extension for UIColor.
• SwiftForms - form are now easy as 1.2.3!
• SwiftyUserDefaults — a cleaner, nicer syntax for NSUserDefaults
• Swiftz - a lib for functional programming.
• Swift Sugar - objsugar ported to swift.
• Wyrd - Asynchronous programming in Swift made easy. Wyrd is inspired by Promises/A+.
• XCGLogger - a lib that help you handling better debug logging.
• Swell - a logging utility for Swift.

Do you wanna host a webserver in your device? Here you can find some tricks to do it.

• swifter - Http server written in Swift with routing handler.

Miscellaneous Swift related projects

• swift-compiler-crashes - A collection of test cases crashing the Swift compiler
• SwiftInFlux — List of things that are "in flux" in Swift + changelog of the language

Tools for Swift development

Generate documentation for Swift code

• jazzy - Soulful docs for Swift & Objective-C
• swiftdoc-parser - Header parsing and HTML generating utilities for SwiftDoc.org