24 Apps You Can Make Today — Apps
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App 1
Hello World
The very first app — a Text view, a Button, and your first taste of @State.
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App 2
Scoreboard
Keep score for two players with + and − buttons. @State for numbers, updated by taps.
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App 3
Color Picker
Pick a color with iOS's built-in color wheel and fill the screen with it.
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App 4
Edges
Fill the whole screen — including behind the safe area — and learn how SwiftUI lays out views.
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App 5
Shapes
Draw circles, rectangles, and custom shapes — and style them with fills and strokes.
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App 6
Move the Target
Drag a target around the screen with your finger using DragGesture.
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App 7
Face Parts
Assemble a face from shapes and emoji using ZStack and offsets.
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App 8
Roll the Dice
Shake or tap to roll a die — and learn how Swift generates random numbers.
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App 9
John's Favorite Animals
A scrollable list of animals — your first data-driven view using List and a simple struct.
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App 10
Super Color Picker
Build a color picker from scratch using three RGB sliders — no ColorPicker control this time.
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App 11
Color Mixer
Pick two colors and blend them together — introduction to mixing color values.
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App 12
Hold On Contest
Hold a button as long as you can — a timer-based contest that tracks your best time.
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App 13
Pixel Paint
A pixel art editor built on a 2D array — tap cells to color them, change your color, make art.
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App 14
Choose-Your-Own-Adventure
An interactive story where every tap is a choice — built around an enum-driven state machine.
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App 15
Helpful Translations
A phrasebook app that shows useful phrases in multiple languages — list navigation and structured data.
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App 16
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Play rock, paper, scissors against the phone — enum-based game logic, random computer moves.
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App 17
Recipe Helper
A recipe display app with ingredients and steps — List sections and deeper data modeling.
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App 18
Clock
Display the current time and watch it tick — Timer, Date formatting, and TimelineView.
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App 19
Typing
A typing practice app — TextField, FocusState, and working with the keyboard in SwiftUI.
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App 20
Not-so-Secret Messages
Encode and decode messages with a simple cipher — string manipulation with map() and character operations.
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App 21
StopWatch
A working stopwatch with start, stop, and reset — Timer, elapsed time, and formatted display.
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App 22
Sort Game
Put items in the right order — tap to swap, detect when the sequence is sorted.
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App 23
Tortoise and Hare
Animate a race between two characters — Timer-driven progress, withAnimation, and offset.
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App 24
Lights Out Game
The classic puzzle game — a 5×5 grid of lights where every tap toggles a cell and its neighbors.
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App 25
Emoji Canvas
Bonus app — drag emoji around a free-form canvas, place them anywhere, and make a scene.