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How to advertise to Swift and iOS developers

To advertise to Swift and iOS developers, be where they read every day: daily.dev Ads, iOS Dev Weekly, Swift by Sundell and r/iOSProgramming. daily.dev gives you a verified company page they follow and puts your posts and releases in the feed of developers who read #swift, #ios and #mobile, in one plan we run for you.

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Who are the Swift and iOS developers on daily.dev?

What they read, where it comes from, and what else they follow: the signals a campaign is targeted on.

The tags that reach them

Target any mix; your plan runs the campaign on them.

  • #swift
  • #ios
  • #mobile
  • #flutter
  • #react-native
  • #performance

800+ targetable keywords in all (daily.dev Media Kit 2.0, August 2026 — targeting).

Where Swift and iOS developers get their news

The sources that publish most on these tags, ranked by followers on daily.dev.

  1. 1 Flutter
  2. 2 Ionic Blog
  3. 3 Hacker News
  4. 4 React Native
  5. 5 JavaScript Mastery
  6. 6 iOS Developers

What they also read

Tags on the same recent posts, as a share of them. Worth adding to a campaign.

  • #swiftui11%
  • #ai-agents8%
  • #dart8%
  • #xcode4%
  • #kotlin4%
  • #android4%

Tags, sources and co-reading: daily.dev public API snapshot.

How do you reach Swift and iOS developers?

Developers are the audience that taught the industry to block ads. The way in is not a louder interruption; it is the reading they chose, in the place they open every day. That is why daily.dev Ads exists: to help brands earn a place in that reading, week after week.

13K+
companies whose developers read daily.dev
800+
targetable stacks and topics
2,000+
content sources in the feed

Written by the daily.dev Ads team, which plans and runs every campaign on the platform. Sources on the audience overview.

  1. Swift Package Manager support is the entry ticket.

    Swift developers expect to add a dependency with one URL. Open your posts with the package line and the import; anything that needs another package manager is a task nobody takes on.

  2. Show SwiftUI, not UIKit.

    A SwiftUI example signals an SDK built for current apps. Publish the view modifier or the async call, with the platform versions you support stated plainly.

  3. Let the platform calendar set your publishing calendar.

    The developer conference and the autumn release set what iOS developers read about. Publish your compatibility notes in those weeks, when readers are looking for them.

  4. Say plainly where you stand on cross-platform.

    Swift developers compare native with Flutter and React Native. A post that states which platforms your product supports, and what is native, reads as honest to both camps.

Handsontable
“Keep publishing, or the AI forgets you exist.”

Joseph Petty

Head of Developer Experience

Why do developers pay attention on daily.dev?

The team reviews real developer ad creatives and unpacks why developer UI, technical density and humour decide what gets read.

More from the team: the developer marketing series →

What do Swift and iOS developers read, and what should your brand say?

A few things they read and discuss

Examples of popular posts on these tags that Swift and iOS developers read and talk about on daily.dev. Open any of them to join the conversation.

  1. You don't need a Mac to develop iOS apps anymore — Expo blog Expo Blog 33 232
  2. An offline outbox that never loses what someone typed, in JavaScript and Swift Medium 1 1
  3. How I reduced the size of my DocC documentation with 95% Daniel Saidi 1 0

Each post opens on daily.dev with its discussion.

What that means for your message

Your takeaways from what they discuss. Our team writes the creative with you.

  • SwiftUI first Publish the view modifier and the async call in a working example
  • The next iOS release Post what changes and what your SDK does about it
  • App size and launch time State the kilobytes and milliseconds your framework adds

How do you target Swift and iOS developers on daily.dev?

Targeting is built on what developers read on daily.dev, not a self-declared profile. You set it once with your campaign manager; your plan runs it, and we optimise it every week.

Tags
#swift, #ios, #mobile, #flutter, #react-native, #performance, and any of the 800+ targetable keywords
Seniority
Junior, mid-level, senior and leadership, from on-platform activity
Region
Global, or by region and country
In your plan
  • Your verified company page
  • Your posts in their feed
  • Your logo on the daily.dev homepage
  • A weekly report and a campaign manager
Creative

Our team works with you to shape, finish and test your creative, so it reads like the posts around it.

Creative specs for every placement

Pick a size

Same work in every size. The size sets your reach.

Plan size
Explore my options →

Prices are quoted per company. See how plans work →

Where else can you reach Swift and iOS developers?

Where Swift and iOS developers can be reached with paid media, and what each channel is good at. Most teams combine two or three; a plan here is the always-on part.

Compare daily.dev with

daily.dev Ads
iOS newsletters iOS Dev Weekly, iOS Goodies
Format
Your verified company page, your posts in their feed, the newsletter they chose, the homepage One sponsor slot per issue
Target by stack
Yes: #swift, #ios and related tags, seniority, region By list
How you buy
Managed monthly plan Per issue
Best for
Building a brand developers follow, every week, with creative and reporting done for you Launch-week spikes

Channel facts from each channel's own public pages, October 2026. Prices are not compared.

What do teams build with Swift and iOS developers on daily.dev?

Build your brand with them

Show up every day in the reading Swift and iOS developers chose, with your posts, releases and point of view, so yours is the name they know when they pick a tool.

Grow a community around your product

Your verified company page is where Swift and iOS developers follow you, discuss your posts and come back for your next release.

Strengthen your employer brand

Share engineering stories, culture and open roles with Swift and iOS developers where they already discover tools and ideas.

Brands building with developers on daily.dev

Brands building with developers on daily.dev

Google
Okta
AWS
Vanta
RevenueCat
JetBrains
ClickHouse
Neo4j
Appwrite
Pulumi
OpenRouter
Postmark
Google
Okta
AWS
Vanta
RevenueCat
JetBrains
ClickHouse
Neo4j
Appwrite
Pulumi
OpenRouter
Postmark
Atlassian
Sentry
Google Cloud
Zoho
QA Wolf
Postman
PostHog
Temporal
dbt Labs
CodeRabbit
Bright Data
Novu
Atlassian
Sentry
Google Cloud
Zoho
QA Wolf
Postman
PostHog
Temporal
dbt Labs
CodeRabbit
Bright Data
Novu
Notion
Datadog
Cursor
Edge Impulse
TigerData
Snyk
LaunchDarkly
Sonar
Retool
Windsurf
Stream
context.dev
Notion
Datadog
Cursor
Edge Impulse
TigerData
Snyk
LaunchDarkly
Sonar
Retool
Windsurf
Stream
context.dev

Google, AWS, Google Cloud, Cursor, Vanta, Zoho, Atlassian, Notion, Okta, Sentry, Datadog, JetBrains, Postman, Snyk, ClickHouse, Edge Impulse, RevenueCat, QA Wolf, TigerData, PostHog, LaunchDarkly, Neo4j, Temporal, Sonar, Appwrite, dbt Labs, Retool, Pulumi, CodeRabbit, Windsurf, OpenRouter, Bright Data, Stream, Postmark, Novu, context.dev

Postmark drove 12.8× more signups context.dev hit 3× the industry CTR benchmark

Guides on reaching Swift and iOS developers

All guides: developer marketing resources →

Advertising to Swift and iOS developers: your questions

Yes. Your posts can reach only developers who read #swift, or #swift with #ios, #mobile or #performance, with seniority and region on top. It is built on what developers read, not a self-declared profile.

daily.dev reaches millions of developers, and Swift developers there read about SwiftUI, the Apple platform releases and app performance. We do not publish audience sizes per segment; tell us the regions and seniority you need and your plan proposal comes back with the reach it buys. 75% of active developers across the network are mid-level or senior.

Your verified company page comes first, with SwiftUI examples, release notes and compatibility updates. Your plan puts them in the feed of developers who read #swift and #ios. Lead with a sample that builds in Xcode and runs on a device, and keep publishing over a release quarter.

Yes. Every plan includes a verified company page that developers follow. What you publish there (releases, tutorials, engineering posts) reaches your followers, and your plan puts it in the feed of Swift and iOS developers who read #swift, #ios, #mobile. The following stays yours between campaigns.

Yes. Engineering stories, culture and open-source work published on your company page reach Swift and iOS developers where they already read, which is what makes an employer brand stick. To hire them directly, recruiter.daily.dev matches roles to developers who opt in.

daily.dev Ads is one managed monthly plan in three sizes, Starter, Growth and Scale. Every size includes your verified company page, your posts and releases in their feed and newsletter, creative made with you and a weekly report; the size sets the reach. Prices are quoted per company, so tell us the audience and regions you need and we come back with a size and a quote.

Pick a plan. We reach
Swift and iOS developers for you.

Tell us what you sell and the regions you need. We come back with a plan size, the reach it buys and a quote.

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