AVFoundation
How vibe coders and indie builders use AVFoundation: 28 projects built with it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
28
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.2%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
0
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- SwiftUI 16
- Swift 14
- Claude Code 6
- Metal 4
- ScreenCaptureKit 3
- RevenueCat 3
- Flutter 3
- Claude (chat or unspecified) 2
What's built with it
Latest projects built with AVFoundation
- Wallnetic — Plays user-supplied video files as animated macOS desktop wallpapers.“Wallnetic - free, open-source live video wallpapers for Mac (1.4.2 just shipped)”
- Ghost Deck — Plays local music files in a classic deck layout with a ten-band EQ and playlist, behind a 3D low-poly world that moves to the music.“I built a Mac music player where your album floats over a low-poly world. It went live on the App Store yesterday”
- WindUp — Measures mechanical watch accuracy with the phone microphone and tracks daily rate drift over time.“I built a free app for mechanical watch nerds — phone-as-timegrapher, accuracy tracking, and a museum of movements”
- ZapStream — Plays the user's own M3U and Xtream Codes IPTV playlists with live TV, guide, movies, series and cross-device sync.“After months of evenings, my minimalist M3U / Xtream player is live on Google Play and the App Store”
- SwiftPlayer — Plays local video and audio files on macOS using Apple's native frameworks, with subtitle support and playback controls.“I built a free Mac video player because VLC was a struggle for my mom's MacBook Air Intel ( 2020 i3 duo)”
- Lumae — Records the screen and provides a timeline editor for trimming, zooming, captioning, voiceover, blurring, and screenshot annotation.“I built a free native macOS screen recorder for demos. I'd love some feedback.”
- Archive — Plays video files from a network share on Apple TV and copies them locally in the background to avoid buffering stutter.“Archive - Apple TV player for the 4K video on your own NAS, no media server”
- Sidecam — Captures photos and 4K video inside a separate app, keeping them out of the system camera roll and optionally mirroring them to the user's iCloud Drive as plain files.“I'm a surgeon, not a developer. I spent a year building the camera app I needed and shipped it last week”
- Prept — Runs timed behavioral interview practice where an AI interviewer cross-examines your answers and reports where you broke under pressure.“Built an app to grill my friends, because they kept bombing their behavioral interviews”
- Council — Lets users write or speak a private journal entry and get ten archetypal inner-voice reflections on that single entry.“I built a private journaling app where ten "inner voices" read your entry and reflect it back — solo, fully on-device”
- Dignify Music — Lets users discover songs by swiping through 15-second clips and keeping or skipping each one.“I built an iOS app for discovering music by swiping through short clips”
- Sisu — Generates AI videos of a person from a single uploaded selfie, placing them in scenes such as dancing in a stadium.“I vibe-coded an AI video app in 3 weeks and shipped it to the App Store”
- Loglux — Plays LOG video footage with a LUT applied and exports full-resolution color still frames in one click.“I'm a videographer, not a coder. I vibe coded a Mac app to fix the one thing that annoyed me most, and it's now on the App Store.”
- Minute It — Automatically assembles a month of phone photos and videos into a short recap video rendered on-device.“After 6 years of monthly family recap videos, I built my own — Minute It: 100% on-device, no editing, no ads”
- Limelight — Records the macOS screen with automatic zoom into clicks, smoothed cursor movement, and on-screen keystroke display, then exports the video offline.“As a non-engineer, I vibe-coded a native Mac app — and my first lifetime sale came from the founder of a Silicon Valley consulting firm. Still can't quite believe it.”