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24 alternatives to Swift Playgrounds

Learn serious code on your iPad in a seriously fun way

Swift Playgrounds is an iPad app that teaches coding through interactive lessons and hands-on exercises. Designed for learners of all levels, it uses Apple's Swift programming language to make education engaging and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Swift Playgrounds launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Swift Playgrounds for iPad▲72
Learn serious code
2021 · developer.apple.com · its alternatives →
2
Swifty▲411
Learn to code in Swift on iPhone & iPad
2015 · hellocode.io · its alternatives →
3
Swift Playgrounds▲5
Learn real coding the fun way
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
4
Code School ▲306
Learn to code on your iPhone
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
5
The Complete iOS 8 Course▲318
Learn by Building 14 Different Apps in Swift
2014 · bitfountain.io · its alternatives →
6
Swiftbites▲220
Learn how to code in swift with interactive mini lessons
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
7
Developing with Swift▲310
Learn how to make iOS 8 apps in Swift, tutorials by Stanford
2015 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
8
Teaching App Development with Swift▲96
A Github-hosted curriculum on Swift for teachers by Apple
2015 · swifteducation.github.io · its alternatives →
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Learn Swift▲238
2015 · books.aidanf.net · its alternatives →
10
Design+Code iOS▲403
Swift 4 designers. Learn to make an iOS app, from the app
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
11
Swift▲271
Apple's innovative new programming language
2014 · developer.apple.com · its alternatives →
12
iPad app to help you learn computational science by tinkering with code▲121
Dive into the world of Python programming through our curated collection of interactive coding tutorials.
2021 · tinkerstellar.com · its alternatives →
13
An iPad app to teach kids how to program▲57
This app is a graphical programming environment for kids to learn coding by creating animations. Although we released it to the app store it's still more of a beta version and we would love to solicit feedback from HNers with iPads. To me, programming is something that kids could really enjoy but the obstacles in their way (getting a programming environment, publishing their code, learning syntax) make the barriers to entry unnecessarily high. We're hoping this will be a good first step in overcoming some of that. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/daisy-the-dinosaur/id490514278?ls=1&mt=8…
2011 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
14
Swift Playgrounds 1.5, from Apple▲95
Command robots, pilot drones, and make music with Swift
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
15
Mimo▲520
From idea to app–in an Instance (iOS, Android & Web)
2016 · mimo.org · its alternatives →
16
SwiftCode▲110
Learn Swift more quickly and easily
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
17
Play▲415
The first native iOS design tool
2022 · its alternatives →
18
imagi▲314
Inspire kids to create with code
2021 · imagilabs.com · its alternatives →
19
Lrn▲479
Learn to code at your convenience
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
20
The Swift Summary Book▲157
Summary of Apple's Swift language written on Playgrounds
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
21
Pineapple▲147
Build native swift apps right from your iPhone/iPad
2020 · its alternatives →
22
ToDon’t▲76
A to-do app with a twist: tasks to do & not do
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
23IA
iOS app for learning Python▲35
2014 · mobileicecube.com · its alternatives →
24
Swifty Compiler▲72
Write and run Swift code easily and professionally
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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