# zed-ios-app-starter > Source: > Published: 2026-08-12 00:00:00+00:00 Put together [zed-ios-app-starter](https://github.com/mrmartineau/zed-ios-app-starter), a template for native iOS apps and the fourth member of [the Zed Stack](/zed-stack). It's SwiftUI and SwiftData targeting iOS 18+, and — unusually for me — it has no third-party dependencies at all. It ships the shell I'd otherwise rebuild every single time: a tab layout with a `NavigationStack` per tab, one SwiftData `@Model` wired all the way through list, detail, edit and delete, an `@Observable` preferences object over `UserDefaults` (because `@AppStorage` only works inside a `View` , which means anything a model needs ends up threaded through the view tree), a first-launch onboarding walkthrough you can replay from Settings, an animated splash over a matching launch-screen colour so there's no white flash, a theme with spacing and radius scales, and Reduce Motion and VoiceOver handling. StoreKit 2 in-app purchases and a streaming Claude API chat client are both in there but switched off by default — turn one on or delete its folder. The bit I'm most pleased with is that adding files needs no project-file edits. The target uses an Xcode file-system synchronized group, so anything dropped into the source directory gets compiled automatically, new folders included. The only things needing a `project.pbxproj` change are files that must be *excluded*. There's a `scaffold.sh` that copies the template to a new directory and renames everything — target, scheme, `@main` struct, bundle id, StoreKit product ids — because `AppStarter` becomes `struct AppStarterApp` and a hyphenated repo name simply won't compile. [Zero](/blog/zero-project-factory), my project factory, now does the same substitutions in CI, so `type: ios` is one more option on the form.