šŸ§ 5 Swift Projects People Donā€™t Know About

Tom Smykowski
4 min readDec 16, 2022

I lately wrote similar articles about Python and Rust. So, naturally, today I will tell you about Swift projects, you may be interested in. Here are five Swift projects that kick butts:

Mastodon iOS

In the previous article about Python I was writing about a Python app to parse Twitter archives. If you are fed up with Twitter, you can switch to Mastodon. Lately it sees some growing interest:

There is actually an official iOS app for Mastodon written in Swift. So you are fortunately not locked out from this social media platform. Mastodon is an interesting project, because it is decentralized. It means no corporation can control what is published. You just choose a server/s you want to join, and can explore the new way forā€¦ mastodoning, I guess.

ClashX

Sometimes youā€™d like to set up a rule based proxy on Mac. If you do, ClashX (written in Swift) is a Clash (written in Go) based project to do just that. It supports HTTP/HTTPSā€¦

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Tom Smykowski

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