The best Eureka alternatives
8 tools that do a similar job to Eureka, 8 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
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NVActivityIndicatorView
Open source · MIT · ★ 10.7k
A Swift library of 32 ready-made loading spinner animations for iOS apps.
Best for: iOS developers who want a ready-made loading indicator with many styles; Developers using Swift in UIKit-based apps
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SwifterSwift
Open source · MIT · ★ 15.3k
A library of over 500 ready-made Swift extensions that add handy helper methods to common types.
Best for: Swift developers building iOS or macOS apps who want common helper methods ready to use; Teams that want to pick only the extension groups they need, such as UIKit or CoreLocation
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SVProgressHUD
Open source · MIT · ★ 12.4k
A simple progress and status overlay for iOS and tvOS apps, written in Objective-C.
Best for: iOS developers who need a quick loading indicator for a blocking task; Developers maintaining Objective-C codebases that want a drop-in HUD
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FSCalendar
Open source · MIT · ★ 10.6k
A customizable calendar view control for iOS apps, usable from Objective-C or Swift.
Best for: iOS developers who need a calendar or date-picker view in their app; Teams with existing Objective-C code that also want Swift support
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SwiftyJSON
Open source · MIT · ★ 22.9k
A Swift library that makes reading JSON data simpler and safer than Foundation's built-in parsing.
Best for: Swift developers building iOS, macOS, tvOS or watchOS apps that read JSON from web APIs; Teams maintaining existing projects that already use SwiftyJSON
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SkeletonView
Open source · MIT · ★ 12.9k
A loading placeholder library for iOS that shows grey skeleton shapes where content will appear.
Best for: iOS developers building apps that load data from the network; Teams using UITableView or UICollectionView lists that need loading placeholders
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validator.js
Open source · MIT · ★ 23.7k
A JavaScript library for checking and cleaning up strings, like emails, dates, and URLs.
Best for: JavaScript developers validating form or API input on Node.js; Developers who need checks like isEmail or isDate without writing regular expressions themselves
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VeeValidate
Open source · MIT · ★ 11.3k
A library for building and validating forms in Vue.js apps.
Best for: Vue developers who need form validation without writing it from scratch; Teams building Vue 3 forms with synchronous or asynchronous rules
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Eureka. We don't take payment for placement.