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Top 5 AI Tools for iOS Developers
To improve your workflow speed & efficiency

While there are a lot of big AI talks, I want to get you back on earth. Whether you’re already using AI-assisted tools for coding or you feel like this is just a big load of bullshit… this article with a clickbait title is probably for you.
While you can probably already find a lot of literature about what and how to use various tools to improve your skills, efficiency, and accuracy with AI, it’s a tad more complicated for us iOS developers. Because we rely on Xcode and its toolchain to build our app, it’s simply harder for us to go without Xcode. And not all the tools I’ll list and explain in the following paragraphs are about skipping Xcode.
1. Cursor / VSCode
Obviously, this is the top of the list. Unless you were hibernating under a rock, you probably heard about VSCode. Working with it on a Swift project is not a novelty. GitHub Copilot, built-in VSCode, allows you to code at the speed of light without doing much of anything in terms of setup.
They recently integrated more Copilot features within VSCode, and it’s getting closer to Cursor. On top of tab completion, you can now also have inline chat + code generation inline.