Codex is phenomenal at creating Swift iOS apps. I just single shotted an app using goals and got 95% of the way there. Iterating is super fast too. Impressed. Much better than Claude Code.
Omar Shahine on X: "Codex is phenomenal at creating Swift iOS apps. I just single shotted an app using goals and got 95% of the way there. Iterating is super fast too. Impressed. Much better than Claude Code."
Same! Building iPhone apps in Swift is still one of my favorite things to do in Codex. These days I do it all there: GPT-Image-2 for the design, GPT-5.5 for the code, then ask Codex to run it in Simulator without opening Xcode. Hard to beat!
I used Codex for my first iOS app too.I shipped my first iOS app today (on Steve Jobs' birthday). KidSchedule: local-first, no accounts, term dates + repeating activities + widgets + reminders. Build your own things. apps.apple.com/us/app/kidsche… “Everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter
codex on swift is the unexpected win. claude was so strong on web for so long, didn't see this gap coming
