Swift Community Names Best Libraries of 2024 for iOS and macOS

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Swift Community Summed Up the Year: Best Libraries for iOS and macOS Named

The annual voting among Swift developers has concluded. The community selected the best open-source libraries that helped create applications for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS in 2024. More than 3,500 engineers from 50 countries took part in the survey. We have gathered the key winners in each category.

🏆 Best Library for SwiftUI: The Composable Architecture (TCA)

The library from Point-Free is at the top again. TCA offers a strict architecture for state management in SwiftUI, based on the Redux approach. This year, version 1.10 was released with improved support for Swift 6 and strict concurrency checking.

Support for Swift 6 and Sendable
Built-in testing tools
Modularity and code reuse

📡 Best Networking Library: Alamofire 5.9

The classic of iOS development is not losing ground. The new version of Alamofire received core-level support for async/await, as well as improved error handling and automatic response caching.

Full support for Swift Concurrency
Streaming requests for large files
Integration with Swift Package Manager

🗄️ Best Database: GRDB.swift 6.0

GRDB is the fastest SQLite client for Swift. In version 6.0, developers added support for Swift Macro for automatic model and migration generation.

Automatic schema migration
Raw SQL and safe queries
Support for Combine and AsyncSequence

🎨 Best Animation Library: Lottie 4.5

Lottie from Airbnb continues to dominate. In 2024, support for vector animations from Rive was added, along with improved performance on devices with M4 and A18 chips.

Rendering via Metal
Dynamic color changes at runtime
Support for SwiftUI and UIKit

🧪 Best Testing Tool: Swift Testing Framework

The new framework from Apple, introduced at WWDC 2024, surpassed older libraries. It replaced XCTest in most new projects thanks to its concise syntax and built-in support for parameterized tests.

Minimal code for tests
Automatic parallelization
Deep integration with Xcode 16

📦 Special Nomination: SwiftLint 0.56

The static code analysis tool received the "Best Team Assistant" award. The new version adds rules for Swift 6, implicit self checking, and automatic documentation generation.

💡 What Does This Mean for Developers?

The community's choice clearly shows the trends: Swift is confidently moving towards strict concurrency, a functional approach, and declarative interfaces. Almost all winners actively use async/await, Swift Macros, and SwiftUI. If you are just starting to learn Swift, we recommend paying attention to these libraries: they are stable, well-documented, and supported by major companies.

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