TOP 5 iOS App Templates 2021

Filip
3 min readJul 3, 2020

How to save time and money building a Swift app?

You can boost your development with iOS starter kit and easily validate your idea. Swift app template is great way how to cut costs and create performant and good looking iOS app.

A Swift app template allows you to build your mobile iOS app using Xcode and publish it to App store in hours.

1) iOS App Template — Sketch Elements

Hi quality swift boilerplate based on sketch.com/elements provides clean code build upon SwiftUI. Data are loaded from json files, which makes it easy to connect it to own API. Customizable with colors and dark/light theme. (free only for non-commercial usage)

Use discount code MOLCIK to get iOS Elements for $29.70 (70% off)

iOS Elements — Multi-purpose App Template

2) Papr

Papr is an unofficial Unsplash app for iOS, which makes it perfect boilerplate for any picture based application. Written in swift using RXSwift and MVVM architecture.

Papr — Unsplash Boilerplate

3) Movie SwiftUI

MovieSwiftUI is an boilerplate that uses the MovieDB API and is built with SwiftUI. It demos some SwiftUI (& Combine) concepts. The goal is to make a real world application using SwiftUI only. It’ll be updated with new features as they come to the SwiftUI framework.

4) Messenger

Extremely simple chat app source code of an iOS Swift Chat app. It leverages MessageKit and it stores and retrieves data to/from Firebase Firestore. The app design is inspired by Facebook Messenger.

Messenger — Chat and Firebase App Kit

5) News App

News App provides boilerplate for News and Weather APIs. With clean design provides great starting point for iOS App Development.

How to choose the App Template?

When you’re choosing an app template, keep in mind some of the key point:

  • Ease of Use
  • Customization
  • Design

This article contains just a few of the popular Swift and Xcode app templates that you may find useful, including one created by myself.

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