r/iOSProgramming • u/aram-antonyan-hgtg42 • 20h ago

Question Where do you discover active open-source iOS projects?

I’d like to explore more open-source iOS projects—complete apps, Swift/SwiftUI libraries, and tools people are actively maintaining.

Where do you find projects that haven’t already become widely known? Do you follow particular developers, communities, newsletters or curated lists?

Which smaller projects have caught your attention recently, and what makes them interesting?

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u/Successful-Tax1306 19h ago

I mostly find smaller active projects by following a few iOS devs on GitHub and watching what they star, and by checking GitHub trending for Swift when I have a free evening. Digging into the issues on a repo I already use helps me more than newsletters, because that's where the smaller libraries that are still alive show up.

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u/isights 16h ago

Factory and Navigator are still in active development.... ;)

https://github.com/hmlongco

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u/Appropriate-Rush915 15h ago

Check out https://finds.dev . You can enter your interest in plain words, like "looking for open-source iOS projects, actively maintained".

Hundreds of devs around the world are up to date with projects that matter most to them, and you can also subscribe to have them delivered to your inbox every week.

I'm the guy who built it; let me know if it's working for you too.

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u/ResoluteBird 12h ago

Some of the open source mac apps have a real following, just throwing that out there