List of Swift software and tools

This is a list of software and programming tools for the Swift programming language, which includes frameworks, libraries, IDEs, build tools, and related projects.

Frameworks, libraries, and APIs

Alamofire — HTTP networking library^[1]
Cocoa — Apple’s native API for macOS^[2]
Cocoa Touch — variant of Cocoa for iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS.
Kitura — web framework from IBM (now community maintained)^[3]
Metal (API) – low-overhead hardware-accelerated 3D graphic and compute shader API^[4]
Perfect — server-side Swift web framework
RxSwift — reactive programming library for Swift^[5]
SceneKit — A 3D graphics framework often used with Swift and SwiftUI for rendering scenes and animations^[6]
SnapKit — Auto Layout DSL for iOS/macOS^[7]
SwiftNIO — event-driven networking framework^[8]
SwiftGraph — a graph data structure and algorithms library^[9]
SwiftProtobuf — Protocol Buffers implementation for Swift^[10]
SwiftUI – declarative framework for building user interfaces and Swift Charts for Apple operating systems^[11]
SwiftyJSON — easier JSON handling in Swift^[12]
Vapor — web application framework for Swift^[13]

Swift for TensorFlow — experimental deep learning framework from Google (discontinued, but open source)^[14]
Core ML — Apple’s machine learning framework for on-device inference^[15]
Create ML — Apple’s macOS app and framework for training ML models^[16]

Surge — Swift framework for linear algebra, DSP, and math functions^[17]
Accelerate framework — Apple’s high-performance math and DSP library for Swift and Objective-C^[18]

GNU Emacs — Swift mode and LSP support^[21]
Sublime Text — Swift syntax and build system plugins^[22]
TextMate – via official Swift bundle providing syntax highlighting and snippets^[23]
Vim — via Swift Vim plugins^[24] and Neovim^[21]
Visual Studio Code — Swift LSP support through SourceKit-LSP^[25]
Zed — fork of Atom with support for Swift^[26]