iOS Dev Tools: Simulator Broker, SwiftPieces, Appstead
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Simulator BrokerLets humans, AI agents, and CI jobs share the iOS Simulators on one Mac without taking devices from each other. Each job leases a simulator by purpose, like agent-ui-session or manual-testing, instead of a UDID, and a local service called brokerd decides who holds what. Open source (MIT), alpha, macOS 14+. Why you will like it:
SwiftPiecesA library of 77 SwiftUI components in 14 categories, including swipe decks, glass menus, floating docks and scrubbable charts. Each piece is a single Swift file with a preview, built on Apple frameworks only, with motion, haptics and accessibility already handled. Add a piece with npx swiftpieces add, copy it from the site, or let an AI coding agent install it through the MCP server. Why you will like it:
AppsteadLets indie developers track App Store downloads, proceeds, subscriptions, and reviews for every app they ship, right from iPhone and iPad, without living in App Store Connect. It connects directly to the official App Store Connect API, keeps credentials in the Keychain, and no Appstead server stores your business data. Why you will like it:
NextReset - Free, independent browser-based reference for developers using Codex, bringing together public reset announcements and source-linked history. Ramback - Free Mac menu bar app that finds booted iOS simulators (Xcode Previews too), Xcode helpers, and the rest of your dev stack using RAM, and shuts simulators down with xcrun simctl instead of killing them. OpenHistory - Menu bar app that turns your Mac activity into a private, searchable work timeline. Open source and local-first, OpenHistory summarizes tasks, decisions, and unfinished work, helping AI agents recall what you’ve been working on.
DiskFox - Mac storage app that keeps a history of your disk and shows what grew, when, and the likely cause. For developers, it names Xcode DerivedData, archives, simulator runtimes, Docker’s disk image, and npm and Homebrew caches, and shows when each one grew. NoMac - A cloud Mac for iOS developers and their AI coding agents: a macOS VM with Xcode and the iOS Simulator. You use it over SSH, a CLI, an HTTPS API, or MCP from any computer, so Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor can build, run the Simulator, and send builds to TestFlight. TrimyMac - Native SwiftUI disk cleaner that finds Xcode build artifacts, iOS device backups, and developer caches from npm, pip, Homebrew, Docker, and CocoaPods, alongside regular app caches and logs.
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