DetailsPro

Doesn’t support charts or many of the new elements app feels like it’s on life support as it’s still feature outdated wwdc content

Most apps in this category clutter their menus with every possible widget you might need - buttons, navbars, modal views, etc. While some of those are useful, most can be quickly thrown together with a rounded rectangle here and there, occasionally a shadow or blur view at worst. This app nails the selection of primitives you might end up needing to build most any UI prototype. It's very limited and at first it may feel constraining, but over time you learn to ignore the urge to find 'the exact right component' and just blaze through UI prototypes with a few basic elementary shapes layered on top of each other. This works wonderfully for producing high quality mockups of your interface that you can export as SwiftUI, but obviously isn't really viable to ship as part of your app without substantial cleanup. That's okay! You shouldn't expect this tool to do that for you. Love the simplicity.

I asked around for a tool like this and other devs scoffed. I mean I know I could fiddle through random settings and try to stumble on what looks good. However as someone new to SwiftUI this lets me try many options and different styles quickly without firing up Xcode. It's a huge timesaver. I'd love to see more code hooks, for example specify variable names, break components into reusable pieces for example list rows, Swift Charts integration? This is really the missing piece for Xcode as far as I'm concerned. I will be upgrading mostly to support the devs since the free tier with five files is already quite generous.

A fun thing to play around with, and can export code too!

I’m so happy you found

I’m so happy you found

The app is really good, I love using it, it’s mostly easy to navigate and it made me a lot more confident when it comes to designing for and with SwiftUI. But at the same time, there are numerous bugs with it. Some of the ones I come across the most are, the files don’t save, or if I duplicate a file and start editing the new one, it also edits the old file too. To summarize, I would say think a bit before buying a subscription, it might let you down.

Details Pro is the very best way to jump headfirst into app development. You can start with a design and build out an iPad Playgrounds app in no time at all. It’s so easy, it’s like cheating.

This app is incredible, I know how hard it can be to make apps, to get all the animations, right, etc., but this does it perfectly!

This is the missing link for SwiftUI. I found creating interfaces in it to be next to impossible to achieve what I could do in UIKit, but DetailsPro actually made me not hate using SwiftUI. Looking forward to begin using more and more SwiftUI now that I have an intuitive and efficient way to actually build the interfaces!