Swift course: the 10 best in 2026

Best for Swift developers who want to master modern concurrency. It covers async/await, actors, async-let, task groups, unstructured concurrency and detached tasks, and how to use them in iOS apps to keep the interface responsive.

It has 4.6 stars from more than 1,400 reviews and more than 7,700 students. It runs about five hours with 39 resources and was last updated in December 2023. We lowered it because it is not a beginners' course.

Best for beginners who want to learn both UIKit and SwiftUI. It goes from the fundamentals to senior-level topics, building more than 18 production-grade apps, with dedicated modules on using and training machine learning models.

It has 4.5 stars from more than 400 reviews and more than 3,700 students. It runs about 117 hours, the longest course here, with 75 resources, and was last updated in March 2025.

Best for programmers who want broad iOS coverage, including back-end Swift. It covers SwiftUI, the Model-View pattern, Combine, Core Data, SwiftData, MapKit, unit and UI testing, Firebase and server-side Swift with Vapor for building APIs.

It has 4.5 stars from more than 600 reviews and more than 6,500 students. It runs about 74 hours with 459 resources, the most here, and was updated in October 2025. Basic programming concepts are expected.

Best for learners who want many SwiftUI projects across Apple platforms. It covers SwiftUI, SwiftData, Core Data, MVVM, Combine, WidgetKit, Apple Intelligence and Foundation Models, with projects including Wishlist, Grocery List, Africa, an e-commerce app, a slot machine game and a watchOS notes app.

It has 4.3 stars from more than 7,900 reviews and more than 50,000 students. It runs about 37 hours with two quizzes and 51 resources, and was updated in June 2026.

Best for beginners who want a short, focused project on storing data in iOS apps. You build a data-driven app with SwiftData and SwiftUI from scratch in Xcode, creating the data layer and the interface components, in lessons that usually last three to six minutes.

It has 4.9 stars, but from only 8 reviews and 21 students. It runs about two hours and was updated in June 2026. It joined the list through our second round, and we lowered it because it covers one framework rather than Swift as a whole.

Best for beginners who want to build clones of well-known apps. Using Swift 6, it builds projects including Catch the Kenny, a currency converter, a calorie tracker, a travel book, Instagram, Snapchat and Angry Birds clones and an image recognition app, with Firebase, Parse, a SwiftUI section and AI tools such as ChatGPT, Cursor and Claude.

It has 4.5 stars from more than 2,000 reviews and more than 17,000 students. It runs about 55 hours and was updated in February 2026. It also makes you eligible for the Codestars CCA certificate exam.

Best for learners who want to master the Swift language itself before app development. It covers fundamentals, collections, flow control, loops, error handling, functions, closures and higher-order functions, then object-oriented programming, extensions, generics and asynchronous programming, with exercises, challenges and projects for each concept.

It has 4.7 stars from 108 reviews and more than 800 students. It runs about 21 hours with 307 resources and was updated in February 2026. We raised it because it is the course most focused on Swift as a language.

Best for learners who want a deep, project-based path from Swift basics to modern Apple frameworks. It covers closures and higher-order functions, SwiftUI data flow, MVVM, async/await, SwiftData and Core Data, localisation, Swift Charts, MapKit, notifications, Core ML and Foundation Models, through projects such as a weather app, an activity tracker, an alarm app and Conway's Game of Life.

It has 4.6 stars from more than 1,000 reviews and more than 9,700 students. It runs about 90 hours with six quizzes and 117 resources, and was updated in October 2026, the most recent here.

Best for beginners who want to learn with Swift 6 and SwiftUI 6 from the start. You build five apps with themes such as Lord of the Rings, Jurassic Park and Pokemon, covering images, SF Symbols, scrolling, animations, maps and data storage, then follow a real app from idea to App Store using ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and Claude.

It has 4.7 stars from more than 2,500 reviews and more than 19,000 students. It runs about 47 hours with two quizzes and was updated in December 2025.