iOS Dev Tools: App Store Screenshot Tester, Iconed, ChessKit,
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App Store Screenshot Tester
Your first 3 screenshots have seconds to convince users to download your app - they're often the deciding factor between a scroll-past and a download.
This web tool helps iOS developers visualize how their app will appear in App Store search results before submission, so you can test different screenshots, icons, and listing details to optimize your app's visual appeal and make informed decisions about your App Store presence.
Why you will like it:
Preview your app's appearance in App Store search results before going live.
Test different screenshot combinations and see which ones work best together.
Experiment with app names and subtitles to optimize your listing.
Export your preview to share with team members, stakeholders, or clients for feedback.
100% free.
Iconed
Iconed is a convenient icon creation tool that helps users easily create and customize icons from images. It supports generating app icons for macOS and iOS, customizing folder icons, and converting between various icon formats. Whether cropping GIF animations into square animated icons or converting icons to common formats like PNG, JPEG, and TIFF, Iconed handles it all with ease.
Why you will like it:
Folder Icons: Easily customize folder icons.
App Icons: Import images to generate complete app icons with preview support.
Icon Format Conversion: Supports conversion between multiple common formats.
Automatic Multi-Scale Generation: Automatically generates 1x, 2x, and 3x icons.
GIF Icon Handling: Crop and generate square animated GIF icons.
ChessKit
ChessKit-Swift is a Swift package for efficiently implementing core chess logic, including board representation, move validation, and notation parsing, optimized with performant data structures like bitboards.
Why you will like it:
Comprehensive Chess Elements – Models pieces, squares, positions, boards, moves, and full games.
Efficient Move Validation – Uses
UInt64bitboards for fast, rule-compliant move generation and legality checks.Special Moves & States – Automatically handles castling, en passant, pawn promotion, check, checkmate, stalemate, and draw detection.
Notation Support – Includes PGN, FEN, SAN, and UCI-style engine LAN parsing and generation.
Stormy
Stormy AI is presented as a marketing AI agent. It aims to assist with various marketing tasks, potentially including content creation, campaign analysis, or strategy development.
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