Xcode 4+
Developer Tools
Apple
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- Free
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Description
Xcode offers all the tools you need to craft great apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro, and Mac. It enables a unified workflow that spans from the earliest stages of app development to testing, debugging, optimization, and app distribution to testers and users. And with the Swift programming language, Xcode makes developing apps easy and fun.
Xcode includes a world-class code editor with an on-device machine learning model trained for Swift and Apple SDKs, a built-in preview tool that shows the UI of your app as you modify code, and a powerful debugger with conditional breakpoints.
Xcode also includes companion tools to help you rapidly prototype and test your app. Simulator enables rapid prototyping and testing your app in a simulated environment when a real device isn’t available. Instruments helps you profile and analyze your app, improve performance, and investigate system resource usage. And you can use Reality Composer Pro to create 3D content, train custom machine learning models with Create ML, and identify potential accessibility issues with Accessibility Inspector.
To test or run applications on an Apple device, all you need is a free Apple ID. To submit your apps to the App Store you must be a member of the Apple Developer Program. Some features may require Internet access and may not be available for all regions or on all Apple devices.
What’s New
Version 16.4
Xcode 16.4 includes Swift 6.1 and SDKs for iOS 18.5, iPadOS 18.5, tvOS 18.5, watchOS 11.5, visionOS 2.5, and macOS Sequoia 15.5.
Ratings and Reviews
Stop heavy updates
XCode is a great app but please stop so heavy updates please. I have an iMac 27 inches with 16GB RAM of origin, and this is the second update that take more than 4 days to upload completely and install. It almost put the iMac to a halt and I can't do basic browsing, working and saving work, without taking ages to load or save. It's counterproductive and the wifi is not the problem I have 50Mb download constantly.
Getting significantly worse on each release
Around Xcode 12 or 13 I could happily work with storyboards for hours. Ever since then every release comes with major performace issues and bugs. Latest version broke support for custom fonts in interface builder, making it unusable for a lot of apps. I've had to continually keep a folder of older Xcode versions in order to work around issues.
I'm assuming this long list of issues with interface builder are due to a drive to focus on SwiftUI, which has been incredibly problematic on its own. Its a shame to see what was once a great IDE becoming my biggest pain point across multiple complex projects
Version problems
Xcode is great for developing iOs apps, I agree. However, every time there is a new update on iphone, it won't work anymore as xcode is also required to be updated. Xcode update takes way too long and too much space. My Mac crashed sometimes because of the updates.
App Privacy
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Data Not Linked to You
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- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Provider
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APPLE DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONAL LIMITED has identified itself as a trader for this app and confirmed that this product or service complies with European Union law.
- DUNS Number
- 985013578
- Address
- HOLLYHILL INDUSTRIAL ESTATE HOLLYHILL CORK T23 YK84 Ireland
- Phone Number
- +1 8002752273
- support@apple.com
- Size
- 3.1 GB
- Category
- Developer Tools
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 15.3 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2025 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free