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I'm new to Mac's in general and iOS development. I've used an iPhone and iPad, and I'm looking to write apps for both. I'm a (newly) registered Apple developer and have Xcode downloaded and working my through it.

My question is this: Are there any third party tools that iOS developers with more experience than I (which is everyone) uses?

Example, in the Windows world I use

  • Notepad++ as a extra text editor.
  • Depends for dependency checks (yes, I realize there might not be a corollary to this)
  • Regex Buddy for building/debuggin regular expressions.
  • etc...

Being ignorant of the iOS landscape, any information anyone could supply on tools (and possibly why they are must haves or need to haves) would be great.


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    I took the liberty to add some rules so that it won't be chaos. I also asked to make it CW. Mar 29, 2011 at 20:46
  • A great site to find a Mac counterparts to software you are used to on Windows is AlternativeTo.net - here is a list of Mac OS X alternatives to Regex Buddy - I have not tried any of them yet. Mar 29, 2011 at 21:58
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    I don't think there's anything wrong with including prices. If they change, anyone can edit the info. It's very useful to know the price beforehand.
    – nevan king
    Sep 21, 2011 at 12:16
  • Wouldn't this be better on Stack Overflow where developer topics is more germane?
    – bmike
    Oct 20, 2012 at 9:23

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Fraise

Lightweight text editor with syntax highlighting, etc. My Notepad++ replacement. Development has stopped, but it is open source, so it may take off again.

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  • It may not. Fraise is a fork of Smultron (who used to be free and open-source too). But since Smultron developer restarted the development (closed source, this time) and put it on the Mac AppStore, Fraise developement was shut down. Mar 30, 2011 at 7:59
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On The Job

On The Job is a really well done time tracking app. It's useful if you do client work and want to keep track of how much time you spend on a project. You can put in your hourly rate and (I think) generate invoices.
I use it to check how long a task has taken, and as an anti-procrastination device. It's helpful to know that a task you thought would take 4 hours only took 40 minutes. If you forget to stop it when you go on a break, it notices and asks if you really want to bill for the empty time or just reset to where you left off. It's a little expensive, but gets updated pretty frequently.

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SQLiteManager

If you have to work with SQLite databases, or even just poke around the SQLite that Core Data produces, this is a great app. There's an unrelated Firefox add-on called SQLite Manager (notice the space) which has the great advantage of being free, but isn't as easy to use.

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Unretiner

An automated tool to get the 2 versions of icons, images etc for both Hi and Low resolution screen versions (used on the retina screen and not-retina screen devices)

Usefull for iOS development.

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ClipMenu

A free clipboard manager that is highly customizable and also includes support for snippets. I have it open a list of recently copied items using alt+space and then I can select an item to paste from the list. I recommend spending some time to customize it to your specific workflow.

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StoreSizer

StoreSizer is an easy to use and free Mac OS X application that will allow you to quickly resize your AppStore 512*512 PNG icons to icons that can be used for your application.

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Status Barred

Status Barred crops your iOS screenshots to remove the status bar from them, which is recommended by apple before submitting to iTunes connect.

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Keystok for iOS

An elegant developer tool to manage all your iOS app configs. Helps manage API keys and other secrets in your source code at a central place.

PS: I am part of the Keystok team.

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SupportKit

Free SDK that allows you to have conversations with users in your app, from the comfort of your e-mail inbox. I helped build it and am really proud of the impact it's having on apps everywhere.

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