Skip
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“You don't 100% need them to release it, there's projects like Skip:”
“Skip allows to "Build truly native iPhone and Android apps with Skip"”
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“seems like Swift is going in the right direction here”
“https://skip.tools has bridged it to Compose.”
Caveats and dissent
“there is no LICENSE file putting this in DONT USE territory.”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Flutter's grim outlook has resulted in a surge of interest in Skip”
“Skip is native on both platforms.”
“Skip uses the native toolkits and conventions on both platforms”
“Plain text, markup and Markdown to HTML with XSLT:”
Threads where it came up
- Skip Is Now Free and Open Source 9 mentions
- Swift 6.4 Released 1 mention
- Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023) 1 mention
- Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible 1 mention
- Show HN: My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award 1 mention
- Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford 1 mention
Also written as skip. Data: skip.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 13
“You don't 100% need them to release it, there's projects like Skip:”
“Skip allows to "Build truly native iPhone and Android apps with Skip"”
“Skip was ejectable.”
“I do wonder how much of a boost skip offers vs Flutter's mobile apps.”
“maybe Skip would allow me to do it anyways”
“Skip looks ideal; I was planning on asking you about licensing”
LGPL3 has now been added: https://github.com/skiptools/skip/commit/7ad94680a801ca393fe9715565766ccb0629cdfa
“there is no LICENSE file putting this in DONT USE territory.”
“I wonder how this compares to Skip[1]?”
It was already fully native Swift and I began the apps before React Native existed. But it’s not true what you say! I have begun prototyping experiments in running my Swift and SQLite in the browser via WASM, and I’m also evaluating https://skip.tools for running SwiftUI on Android. I will go cross platform without ditching Swift. But to be honest I am more likely to pursue web than native Android (Skip runs Swift na
“seems like Swift is going in the right direction here”
“I'm also evaluating https://skip.tools for running my SwiftUI on Android.”
“https://skip.tools has bridged it to Compose.”