Show HN: SweetPad – CLI for Xcode Projects

Category: devtools

Tags: cli, ios, swift, xcode, developer-tools

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

SweetPad is a Rust-based CLI that wraps xcodebuild to build, run, debug, and test iOS/macOS apps without opening Xcode. It emphasizes human-friendly output, editor integration (Neovim, Zed, VS Code via DAP and BSP), hot reload, and agent-friendly JSON output, filling a real gap for developers who prefer the terminal over Xcode's IDE.

Target audience: iOS/macOS developers, DevOps engineers, and developers using terminal-based editors or CI pipelines

Repository: https://github.com/sweetpad-dev/sweetpad · Rust · MIT · 1914 stars

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