Swift
How vibe coders and indie builders use Swift: 335 projects built with it and 2 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
335
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
2.4%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
-12%
Add-ons built for it
2
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 111
- Claude Code 38
- AppKit 32
- Claude (chat or unspecified) 27
- iCloud 22
- Cloudflare 19
- Metal 18
- Codex 18
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Swift
- Halo — Launches or switches to macOS apps from a radial wheel that appears at the cursor, and quits running apps from a second wheel.“I made Halo, a free radial app launcher + quitter for macOS. [FREE]”
- UnivNote — Lets users draw diagrams in a note-taking app and reshape them later by dragging editing handles on the shapes.“I made an iPad note app where you can reshape a diagram instead of drawing it again”
- Copy — Stores everything copied on a Mac and shows it as a searchable shelf of cards for pasting back.“I built a free, open source clipboard manager for macOS. It shows everything you copied as a shelf of cards.”
- Ripples — Plays a Lights Out style logic puzzle where tapping a pool flips it and its four neighbours across graded wave levels.“I built a one-rule puzzle game solo: tap a pool, it flips its neighbours, drain the board”
- Convertessa — Converts files between over 1,100 format combinations for images, video, audio, documents, archives, eBooks and fonts, entirely on the local machine.“[Launch] I got tired of sketchy sites that upload your files just to convert them - so I built Convertessa, a native Mac app that converts 1,100+ formats completely offline”
- ArtFinder — Maps street art, murals and sculptures that users pin with photos, ratings and notes, alongside nearby museum and verified art locations.“I built a map app for finding street art, murals and hidden sculptures — would love feedback”
- Arc PDF — Reads, annotates, edits, OCRs and summarizes PDF documents in a lightweight native macOS app.“I made an 11.6 MB PDF app that reads, annotates, edits, OCRs, and does AI — free on the Mac App Store”
- Peeka — Reminds you to take eye breaks by having a desktop ghost cover the screen and count to 20 seconds every 20 minutes.“I built a Mac app where a sleepy ghost makes you take eye breaks. Would love honest feedback”
- GLPMGR — Tracks GLP-1 medication doses, food protein and progress photos on-device without requiring an account.“I built a privacy-first GLP-1 medication tracker in SwiftUI: iPhone, iPad, Watch, widgets, no account”
- Bookidoro — Shows a short reading overlay of one to five pages from the user's book queue when a work break starts, instead of phone scrolling.“I built a native Mac app to stop my phone doomscrolling habit during work breaks. 2 months in, I’ve read 4 books & just added iCloud sync.”
- Screen FX — Overlays confetti, fireworks, fire effects, sound-backed text signs and other animations on top of the macOS screen via Stream Deck keys.“I made a Stream Deck plugin that throws confetti, fireworks and a full-screen "GAME OVER" over your Mac screen. Native, 200 KB, no extra apps”
- DefaultBrowserChanger — Switches the macOS default browser from a menu bar icon or global shortcut so links open in the chosen browser.“I got tired of external links opening in the wrong browser while juggling AI & work sessions, so I built a 1-click menu bar changer in pure Swift”
- Harvey — Runs a solar company's CRM, mail, calendar, documents, bookkeeping and equipment monitoring, with an AI assistant that can act on them by chat or voice.“I built the operating system for my one-person solar company, with an AI operator inside it. Here it is working on a real job.”
- Vory — Gives an iPhone chat and remote-control client for self-hosted Hermes agent gateways, with bot avatars, approval prompts and group chats.“Vory: an iPhone app for your self-hosted Hermes agents (public beta, open source)”
- iosc — Compiles, signs, and installs iOS apps onto a device over USB entirely from Windows, without Xcode.“Wanted to share a tool I've put together that allows for compiling, building and installing ios apps fully from windows”
Latest add-ons built for Swift
- Mite — Collects in-app feedback from mobile app users and manages release notes, feature requests, and announcements for developers.“Built an in-app feedback SaaS for mobile apps”
- Built a Swift 6 migration… — Analyzes Swift codebases to identify code that needs changes for Swift 6 migration.“Built a Swift 6 migration analyzer — entirely with AI agents, zero manual code 🤖”