Swift Playground User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience45.8% of reviews
Neutral10.5% of reviews
Negative experience43.7% of reviews

~ Based on 542 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Swift Playground Safe?

Swift Playground appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Swift Playground is 74/100.

This assessment is based on 1,836 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.7/5.

Safety Analysis

64.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
9.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
26.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,836 App Store ratings for Swift Playground.

Is Swift Playground Legit?

Swift Playground appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Swift Playground is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

WORST APP EVER

I was creating a game about a virtual pet and it deleted some important stuff and the codes were in bad order! Worst app ever! 😡

Great but it need’s a fix on my iPad

So when I first downloaded this app also it was my first time coding so I needed to download it and when I actually press get guess what happened…🫠it did not let me download the resource so please I need you apple to fix it.

Thank you!

ITS SOOO GOOOD!!!!!

I keep staring at it, its a very GOOD EPIC EPIC GAME ENGINE, THE BEST, THE BEST!!!
here are some things you can add
1.more tutorials
2.easier to upload at app store
3.description and its pictures of thee, you know.
4.more realism, strength, options, physics.
5.able to pick objects and rotate and size like you know
6.able to make our own models
7.jsons and txts to work and be useful
8.more commands
9.more fairness and easier
10.fix more bugs
11.try to make it a middleweight to heavyweight game engine builder, and not just for learning, creating apps
12. optional, add more than just books and apps *might be perfect*
13. Remove alot of strict things (optional)
14. More speed, and a option To turn it to a ipa or put it in our homescreen to upload to app store or anything
15.option to upload without a team *this will get you more reviews and more people using*
And thats all, also i want to thank you for making a masterpiece! My dream is trying to be a game developer and now this is my most favorite game engine! Infinite out of 5, thank you for this masterpiece.
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Please read this!

I thought this was for kids! It actually said in the app “you’re 15 right?” Or something like that AND it starts out really easy and then goes on to add crucial buttons like while and I didn’t even know! And when I checked the answers, let me ask you a question, HOW IS EVEN A 10 YEAR OLD SUPPOSED TO JUST HAPPEN TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO WRITE A 30 SENTENCE CODE BLOCK!!?
So yea, you guys at apple need to make a learn to code app that is actually for kids and not for teenagers.
It’s really fun at times but at other times it’s a headache. Thanks for reading this comment, I give this app a 3.7/10
P.S. this was written by a 11 year old boy on his mom’s account.
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Annoying

When I try to press get, it doesn’t work. It’s HORRIBLE and DONT GET THIS APP

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Everytime i try to download a playground, it just resets

Use It

Works Great On My Own IPad

Wont work properly

I used it after my purchase and it so frustrating and works slow and freezes in random time!!!

Repeated Crash on Launch

I’ve been using this app to toy around with app ideas every now and then since it came out. After a few months away, I updated to the latest version and haven’t been able to keep the app from crashing. Any time I create or open an existing document, the whole app crashes within a couple seconds. I’m running the latest iPad OS version on an M2 iPad Pro
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Won't work on IOS 26

One ⭐️

More updates

We need more updates come on apple u can do better IM NOT GOING TO BUY A MAC TO DO I SIMPLE APP UPDATE THE APP BETTER TO BE MORE COMPLETE LIKE XCODE IM DONE

Downloads Simply Don’t Work

I can’t believe Apple released such a low quality app like this. I just downloaded it, and I tap the “Get” button to download a playground. Once the download “completes,” the button changes back to “Get.” Nothing happens. This is the case for every download I try. Great job, Apple. It just works, right? Right?!?
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It is good

It's good but takes up all my storage

4 trillion dollar company can’t fix their own apps

I have an m5 iPad Pro and the app doesn’t let me download anything. Extremely buggy and in a broken state.

Super app!

Hello developers I love swift playgrounds I made a cool app but can you make it so you can install you apps on your ipad? And make it so there is an ai to code for you? Thank you!

BEST APP EVER

Mate, this is the best app eva. It just can’t get any betta. It’s so good and helpful, and I learnt to code in 5 minutes. There are no bugs and plenty of tutorials. Would definitely recommend.

TRASH DISGUSTING APP (jk)

I’ve been using Swift Playgrounds for a project, and honestly, it’s been pretty frustrating. One of the most annoying issues is how hard it is to properly position buttons. I tried moving a button to the top-left corner like a normal app layout, but the hitbox stays stuck somewhere else on the screen. So even if it looks like it’s in the right place, you have to tap in a completely different area for it to work.

This makes designing even simple interfaces way more difficult than it should be. There’s barely any clear control over layout or touch areas, and it feels like you’re fighting the system instead of building something. For a tool that’s supposed to help beginners learn app development, this kind of problem just makes everything confusing and discouraging.

Overall, Swift Playgrounds is fine for very basic stuff, but once you try to do anything slightly more custom—like moving a button properly—it becomes unnecessarily complicated and TRASH even more TRASH than my dead body i kept in my freezer.
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Cannot install!

I have tried to install courses but none of them have successfully installed.

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Do not download

I’ve tried downloading the courses on multiple iPads on multiple accounts and none of the courses actually download. Huge disappointment.