UIKit Lab vs SixD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UIKit Lab
An interactive guide for designers to explore and customize UI components. Visualize and understand interface essentials through hands-on demos. Get a feel for how components look and behave with real-time adjustments.
- Interactive UI component demos
- Browse organized interface essentials
- Customize UI components
- Real-time visual feedback
- Designed for designers
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UIKit Lab is an interactive guide to UIKit for designers. Browse interface essentials that are thoughtfully organized. Play with interactive demos of UI components. Customize UI components to quickly get a sense of their new look and feel right from UIKit Lab.
SixD
Learn and create with SwiftUI through an intuitive interface. Explore components, design graphically, and get native SwiftUI code. Browse SF Symbols with natural language search.
- SwiftUI component exploration
- Native graphical design interface
- Copy SwiftUI code directly
- Interactive UI design foundations
- Natural language SF Symbols search
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SixD (SwiftUI x Design) is the most intuitive and beautiful way to learn and create with SwiftUI. SwiftUI Lab • Explore SwiftUI components • Design in a native graphical interface • Copy the SwiftUI code: what you see is what you get Interactive Guide • Learn UI design foundations through an interactive experience SF Symbols • Browse SF Symbols and search with natural descriptions • No more "square.and.arrow.up," just search "share" Designed and developed by Haolun Yang. Awarded by Apple WWDC23 Swift Student Challenge.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SixD at 4.8 against UIKit Lab's 4.5. SixD also leads on review sentiment (90% vs 71%) and device support (4 vs 2). UIKit Lab's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SixD holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 43 and 29 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of UIKit Lab's written reviews are positive against 90% of SixD's.
UIKit Lab ships an update every 4 weeks, SixD every 3 months. Both last shipped on September 30, 2026.
| Parameter | UIKit Lab | SixD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (43 ratings) | 4.8 (29 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.6% of reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 43 — better | 29 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 143 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wenchang Yang | Haolun Yang |
Customer experience
UIKit Lab
SixD
In-app purchases
UIKit Lab
No in-app purchases
SixD
No in-app purchases
