Building iOS apps with Cursor and Claude Code

My refined, almost perfect workflow

Cusor + Claude Code, my ideal workflow for now

If you’ve been following my workflow from my previous articles, you should know that I improved it even further.

Agentic iOS workflow with XcodeBuildMCP and Cursor

I’m still using Cursor, but this could also work in VSCode. Basically I’ve switched from using the Cursor agent to using Claude Code in my terminal to using Claude Code in Cursor itself because the integration is so good!

I’ve played with Agent a lot the last couple of weeks/months, and my conclusion is that as of today, nothing comes close to Claude's code. And the cherry on top? It’s quite good at SwiftUI. It consistently finds the correct way to do stuff, fixes issues, and does what I requested. Much more than vanilla Cursor can do (without heavy prompting)

Setup

Claude Code runs entirely in your terminal. The output is well-formatted, and the Cursor/VSCode…