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.

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  <span>A tool like grep, optimized for programmers</span>
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  <span><span>Professional Graphic Design Software for the Mac.<br /> </span></span><span>Affinity Designer is the fastest, smoothest, most precise vector graphic design software available.<br /> </span>
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  <span>Smart IDE for iOS/OS X development</span>
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  <span>Sales manager for downloading iTunes connect sales reports, reviews and rankings.</span>
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  <span>Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds</span>
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  <span>Mac App for editing Podfiles</span>
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  <span>Libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Azure & OpenStack Swift browser</span>
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  <span>Mass delete iOS contacts in Address Book.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp; </span>Useful when testing apps that use the address book</span>
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  <span>The Screenshot Shortcut</span>
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  <span>IDE for Java and more</span>
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  <span>Build and release automation</span>
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  <span>Finder for your iOS device</span>
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  <span>Edit your app previews</span>
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  <span>Open source, software development platform.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp; </span>(I like the diffs the best)</span>
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  <span>API explorer app for Google Chrome</span>
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  <span>Record your app preview videos</span>
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  <span>Telestream ScreenFlow is a professional tool to record and edit App Preview videos or marketing videos featuring your app.</span>
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  <span>Easily open the iOS Simulator directory</span>
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  <span>Modify the iOS Simulator so that it has a perfect status bar, then run your app and take perfect screenshots every time</span>
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  <span>Professional digital design for Mac</span>
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  <span>Git & Mercurial client</span>
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  <span>Sql and coredata manager/editor.</span>
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  <span>Text editor</span>
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  <span>OpenVPN</span>
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  <span>Accounting and Taxes for indie&#8217;s</span>
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  <span>Objective-C and Swift IDE</span>
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