Open-Source iOS Apps

List of open-source iOS apps.

Feel free to contribute: issues, pull requests, or Twitter.

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1. Apple Watch
2. Communication
3. Games
4. Finance
5. Multimedia
6. News
7. Official
8. Personal
9. Social
10. Tasks
11. Tools
12. Weather
13. Misc

🔶 Swift projects

Apple Watch

• Bitcoin Tracker: Track Bitcoin price 🔶
• Calculator: Calculator app 🔶
• Cherry: Mini Pomodoro Timer app 🔶
• KTPomodoro: Mini Pomodoro Timer app
• Lister: List app example by Apple 🔶
• WatchKit-Apps: Tutorials app for WatchKit 🔶

Communication

• Chats: Messages app 🔶
• ChatSecure: Encrypted chat app that supports OTR encryption over XMPP
  • https://github.com/ChatSecure/ChatSecure-iOS
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/chatsecure-encrypted-messenger/id464200063
• IRCCloud: An IRC client/service
  • https://github.com/irccloud/ios
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/irccloud/id672699103
• Signal: Free, world-wide, private messaging and phone calls for iPhone
  • https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/id874139669

Games

• 2048: 2048 game in Objective-C
• 2048: 2048 game in Swift 🔶
• Canabalt: Infinite runner game
  • https://github.com/ericjohnson/canabalt-ios
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/canabalt/id333180061
• CardsAgainst: Cards Against Humanity app 🔶
• FlappySwift: Swift implementation of Flappy Bird 🔶
• Game Of Life: Conway's Game of Life 🔶
• Orbit7: iOS Game created in SpriteKit 🔶

Finance

• Bither: Simple and secure Bitcoin wallet
  • https://github.com/bither/bither-ios
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/bither/id899478936
• Coins: Bitcoin value tracker 🔶
• Concurrency: Beautiful, intuitive currency converter
  • https://github.com/nicklockwood/Concurrency
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/concurrency/id738872892

Multimedia

• Anypic: Mobile and web app that lets users share photos similar to Instagram
  • https://github.com/ParsePlatform/Anypic
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/anypic/id539741538
• Artsy: The Art World in Your Pocket
  • https://github.com/artsy/eigen
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/artsy-art-world-in-your-pocket/id703796080
• Flickr-Search: Simple app which consumes the Flickr Search API
• MovieDBApp: Movie info app
• OCiney: Movie info app
  • https://github.com/florent37/OCiney-iOS
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/id955480687
• PhotoBrowser: A simple iOS Instagram photo browser 🔶
• ReactiveSwiftFlickrSearch: A Flickr-search app that uses MVVM & ReactiveCocoa 🔶
• VoiceMemos: Audio recorder App for iPhone and iPad 🔶
• VLC: Media Player
  • http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html
  • https://github.com/videolan/vlc
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/vlc-for-ios/id650377962

News

• Designer News App 🔶
  • https://github.com/MengTo/DesignerNewsApp
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/designer-news-app/id879990495
• HackerNews: Hacker News reader 🔶
• HN Reader: Hacker News Reader 🔶
  • https://github.com/Dimillian/SwiftHN
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/hn-reader-hacker-news-reader/id919243741
• News/YC: Hacker News client with user management, commenting, submitting and themes 🔶
  • https://github.com/bennyguitar/News-YC---iPhone
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/news-yc/id592893508
• Reddit: Reddit news app 🔶
• TabDump: TabDump news app
• The Oakland Post: App for student-run newspaper at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan 🔶
  • https://github.com/aclissold/the-oakland-post
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/oakland-post/id931152313

Official

• Firefox: Official Firefox app 🔶
• Wikipedia: Official Wikipedia App
  • https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-ios-wikipedia
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/wikipedia-mobile/id324715238
• WordPress: Official WordPress App
  • https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/wordpress/id335703880

Personal

• GroceryList: iPhone grocery list app, synchronized using GitHub
• iContactU: Reminds you to contact people you ought to 🔶
  • https://github.com/rizal72/iContactU
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/icontactu/id920200100
• iGrades: Track your class grades
  • https://github.com/maurovc/iGrades
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/id816987574
• Moves: Visualize which places you spent the most time
• Onions: Cloud encrypted text storage app
  • https://github.com/onionsapp/Onions-iOS
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/onions/id687296481
• SwiftNote: Simple note taking app with today widget and iCloud syncing 🔶

Social

• Parse-Challenge-App: iPhone app built using Parse w/ likes, comments, posting images/video
  • https://github.com/TomekB/Parse-Challenge-App
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/lets-challenge-me/id944004497
• Peggsite: App for sharing a social board
  • https://github.com/jenduf/GenericSocialApp
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/peggsite/id938445951

Tasks

• Cheddar: Simple & instant task manager
• CloudKit-To-Do-List: Store & retrieve tasks using CloudKit 🔶
• iBeaconTasks: iBeacon TODO reminder app based on Parse
• Task: Designed to quickly and easily add tasks to your iPhone 🔶
  • https://github.com/mbcrump/TasksForSwiftWithPersistingData
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/task-application/id960435759

Tools

• Alarm: Geolocation based alarm app for travelers 🔶
• Be my eyes: An app that connects blind people with volunteer helpers via live video chat
  • https://github.com/bemyeyes/bemyeyes-ios
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/be-my-eyes-helping-blind-see/
• C-41: Make developing film easier and more reliable by using this simple timer
  • https://github.com/ashfurrow/C-41
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/c-41/id789924103
• Colo: Color themes hunter
• ColorBlur: Add blur to your photos
  • https://github.com/maurovc/ColorBlur
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/id928863510
• DeckRocket: Turn your iPhone into a remote for Deckset presentations 🔶
• Edhita: Text editor 🔶
  • https://github.com/tnantoka/edhita
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/edhita-open-source-text-editor/id398896655
• GreatReader: "Great" PDF reader designed for both iPhone and iPad
  • https://github.com/semweb/GreatReader
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/greatreader/id903651112
• HausClock: Minimal Chess Clock using MVVM and ReactiveCocoa 🔶
• Round & Split: Tip Calculator 🔶
  • https://github.com/lukhnos/roundandsplit
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/round-split/id912288737
• Theseus: An open-source iOS personal analytics tool
• VPN On 🔶
  • https://github.com/lexrus/VPNOn
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/vpn-on/id951344279
• Words: Thesaurus app

Weather

• Pocket Forecast: Swift weather application for Typhoon 🔶
• SwiftWeather: Weather app 🔶

Misc

• A Menjar: Food menu app
  • https://github.com/maurovc/aMenjar
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/a-menjar!/id816473131
• AnyWall: A fun geolocation app built with Parse
  • https://github.com/ParsePlatform/AnyWall
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/anywall/id520955490 id905177575
• Cannonball: Fun way to create and share stories and poems 🔶
  • https://github.com/twitterdev/cannonball-ios
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/cannonball-magnetic-poetry/id929750075
• Everest: Everest.com app
• Jupp: App with share extension for ADN 🔶
  • https://github.com/dasdom/Jupp
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/jupp-share-extension-for-app.net/id909926740
• lastfm-iphone: Last.fm iPhone app
• LayerPlayer: Explore the capabilities of Apple's Core Animation API 🔶
  • https://github.com/scotteg/LayerPlayer
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/layer-player/id949768742
• HomeKit-Demo: A Swift demo for HomeKit 🔶
• Kiosk: The Artsy Auction Kiosk App 🔶
• NYE: New Year's Eve Cocktail Menu 🔶
• ParseDeveloperDay: Developer Conference App
  • https://github.com/ParsePlatform/ParseDeveloperDay
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/parse-developer-day/id691488056
• ParseStore: Backend provider for selling physical goods using Parse
  • https://github.com/ParsePlatform/ParseStore
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/parse-store/id613679907
• Parties for WWDC: List of parties for WWDC 2014 attendees
  • https://github.com/sugarso/WWDC
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/parties-for-wwdc/id879924066
• Valio: Valio Con 2014 Schedule 🔶
• Vinylogue: A simple Last.fm client
  • https://github.com/twocentstudios/vinylogue
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/vinylogue-for-last.fm/id617471119
• VisitBCN: City guide for Barcelona
  • https://github.com/maurovc/visitBCN
  • https://itunes.apple.com/app/visitbcn/id904676442

Thanks

This list was inspired by awesome-ios and awesome-swift.

Contact

• github.com/dkhamsing
• twitter.com/dkhamsing