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25 Useful Tools for iOS Software Developers
As a software developer or marketer of iOS apps we rely on our tools to help build our products and save us time. Below are 25 useful tools for building iOS apps.
| Name | Description |
| ack | A tool like grep, optimized for programmers |
| Affinity Designer |
Professional Graphic Design Software for the Mac. Affinity Designer is the fastest, smoothest, most precise vector graphic design software available. |
| AppCode | Smart IDE for iOS/OS X development |
| AppWage | Sales manager for downloading iTunes connect sales reports, reviews and rankings. |
| Audacity | Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds |
| CocoaPods | Mac App for editing Podfiles |
| Cyberduck | Libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Azure & OpenStack Swift browser |
| Delete Contacts+ | Mass delete iOS contacts in Address Book. Useful when testing apps that use the address book |
| DreamShot | The Screenshot Shortcut |
| Eclipse | IDE for Java and more |
| Fastlane | Build and release automation |
| iExplorer | Finder for your iOS device |
| iMovie | Edit your app previews |
| Phabricator | Open source, software development platform. (I like the diffs the best) |
| Postman | API explorer app for Google Chrome |
| QuickTime | Record your app preview videos |
| ScreenFlow 7 | Telestream ScreenFlow is a professional tool to record and edit App Preview videos or marketing videos featuring your app. |
| SimPholders | Easily open the iOS Simulator directory |
| Simulator Status Magic | Modify the iOS Simulator so that it has a perfect status bar, then run your app and take perfect screenshots every time |
| Sketch | Professional digital design for Mac |
| SourceTree | Git & Mercurial client |
| SQLite Professional | Sql and coredata manager/editor. |
| Textmate | Text editor |
| Tunnelblick | OpenVPN |
| QuickBooks Self-Employed | Accounting and Taxes for indie’s |
| Xcode | Objective-C and Swift IDE |
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