Vapor (V2) is a Swift Web framework for MacOS and Ubuntu servers that will provide a foundation for your website, API or cloud project.
Github: 12,261 stars
Links:
https://github.com/vapor/vapor
SnapKit is a DSL that simplifies Auto Layout on iOS and OS X.
Github: 11,755 stars
Links:
https://github.com/SnapKit/SnapKit
Hero is a library for building iOS view controller transformations that provides a declarative layer on top of UIKit’s cumbersome transformation API — a simple task for developers.
Github: 11,922 stars
Links:
https://github.com/lkzhao/Hero
Carthage is a manager dedicated to adding frameworks to your Cocoa applications in the simplest way possible.
Github: 10,894 stars
Links:
https://github.com/Carthage/Carthage
Iina is a modern video player for macOS,
Github: 10,072 stars
Links:
https://github.com/lhc70000/iina
SwiftLint (V0.2) is a tool that qualifies Swift styles and regulations.
Github: 8,396 stars
Links:
https://github.com/realm/SwiftLint
Lona is a tool for defining design systems and using them to generate cross-platform UI code, Sketch files, images, and other artifacts.
Github: 3,960 stars
Links:
https://github.com/airbnb/Lona
SkeletonView is an elegant way to show the user what’s going on and prepare the user for what they’re waiting for.
Github: 3,191 stars
Links:
https://github.com/Juanpe/SkeletonView
Arkit-core Location combines high-precision AR with a large amount of GPS data to locate or describe the surrounding environment.
Github: 3,176 stars
Links:
https://github.com/ProjectDent/ARKit-CoreLocation
PanelKit is the UI framework for enabling panels on iOS.
Github: 3,055 stars
Links:
https://github.com/louisdh/panelkit
ViewAnimator can liven up your UI with just one line. It’s a library for building complex iOS UIView animations in a simple way. It provides a row animation for any view that contains other views, such as UITableView and UICollectionView with its cells or UIStackView with its arranged child views.
Github: 2801 stars
Links:
https://github.com/marcosgriselli/ViewAnimator
Swipeable UITableViewCell implemented by Swift mimics lists in Apple’s native mail. app.
Github: 2,703 stars
Links:
https://github.com/SwipeCellKit/SwipeCellKit
Spruce-ios is a Swift library for orchestrating animations on screen. With so many different animation libraries, developers need to make sure each view is animated at the right time. It helps designers request complex multi-view animations rather than making developers stick with prototypes.
Github: 2,241 stars
Links:
https://github.com/willowtreeapps/spruce-ios
BulletinBoard is an iOS library for generating and managing the interface that appears at the bottom of the screen, and it’s especially good for quick interactions between users.
Github: 2229 stars
Links:
https://github.com/alexaubry/BulletinBoard
TinyConstraints is the syntactic sugar that makes automatic layouts sweeter.
Github: 2,207 stars
Links:
https://github.com/roberthein/TinyConstraints
Gemini is a scroll-based iOS animation framework written in Swift.
Github: 2,101 stars
Link: https://github.com/shoheiyokoyama/Gemini
SpreadsheetView is a fully configurable SpreadsheetView user interface for iOS applications. With this framework, you can create complex layouts such as schedules, Gantt charts, or timetables as easily as you can with Excel.
Github: 2,158 stars
Links:
https://github.com/kishikawakatsumi/SpreadsheetView
SwiftKotlin is a tool that converts Swift code to Kotlin in a very simple and quick way.
Github: 1,868 stars
Links:
https://github.com/angelolloqui/SwiftKotlin
NotificationBanner is the easiest way to display highly customized application notifications in iOS.
Github: 1,579 stars
Links:
https://github.com/Daltron/NotificationBanner
Twitter Image Pipeline is a powerful and high-performance Image loading and caching framework for iOS clients.
Github: 1,454 stars
Links:
https://github.com/twitter/ios-twitter-image-pipeline
FengNiao is a command-line tool for cleaning up unused resources in Xcode.
Github: 1370 stars
Links:
https://github.com/onevcat/FengNiao
MessageKit is JSQMessagesViewController community-driven alternatives.
Github: 1,471 stars
Links:
https://github.com/MessageKit/MessageKit
Dotzu is a debugging tool for iOS apps that enhances logging, network information, crash reporting, and more.
Github: 1,241 stars
Links:
https://github.com/remirobert/Dotzu
Material- Motion – Swift is a kit for building iOS response motion using Core Animation.
Github: 1,106 stars
Links:
https://github.com/material-motion/material-motion-swift
CollectionKit is a modern Swift framework for building reusable data-driven collection components.
Github: 1,909 stars
Links:
https://github.com/SoySauceLab/CollectionKit
With Bender, you can easily and quickly create neural networks on iOS using the TensorFlow model, an abstraction layer on MetalPerformanceShaders.
Github: 1326 stars
Links:
https://github.com/xmartlabs/Bender
Any UITableView HGPlaceholders is a display in the project/UICollectionView placeholder and empty state library.
Github: 1,011 stars
Links:
https://github.com/HamzaGhazouani/HGPlaceholders
Quicktype extrapolates types from sample JSON data, and then outputs strongly typed models and serializers in Swift, C ++, OBJ-C ++, Java, and so on to process the data. This extension adds Quicktype native support for Xcode 9.
Github: 943 stars
Links:
https://github.com/quicktype/quicktype-xcode
DefaultsKit takes advantage of Swift 4’s powerful encodable capabilities and uses less than 70 lines of code to provide simple and powerful UserDefaults for iOS, macOS, and tvOS.
Github: 812 stars
Links:
https://github.com/nmdias/DefaultsKit
Time is a generics driven type-time library on Swift.
Github: 614 stars
Links:
https://github.com/dreymonde/Time
https://medium.mybridge.co/30-amazing-ios-swift-libraries-for-the-past-year-v-2018-7cf15027eee9
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