Free Swift iOS Chat with Firebase
Full source code in Swift to build your own iOS chat feature in minutes
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Launch your iOS app faster with our free Swift iOS chat implementation
Real-time Swift iOS Chat with Firebase, inspired by Messenger
Launch Instantly
Save years of hard work and energy by starting with a high-quality implementation.
Save Money
Save hundreds of thousands of dollars in design, development and management costs.
Scale to Millions
Scale to millions from day 1 with code written by former Facebook & Uber developers.
What's Included
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- Swift iOS Chat with Firebase, inspired by Messenger
You get the full Swift codebase, running in Xcode.
- Integrated with Firebase Auth & Firestore
The iOS project is already integrated with Firebase, to save you a few days of work and headache.
- UI Layout
The iOS source code contains the implementation for the entire UI.
- Github Project
You get access to our open-source Github project.
- Comprehensive Documentation
Step-by-step documentation that covers everything you need to get started.
- MIT License
Use this project without license restrictions.
iOS Chat App Designs
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Features That Will Blow Your Mind
- User Lists and Chat Threads
- Real-time synchronization with Firebase Firestore
- Text messages
- Photo messages
- Inline Editor to send messages
- Profile photos support
- Layout
- Firebase Auth, Firestore and Storage
- Compatible with latest version of Xcode and SwiftUI
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Learn how to build a chat app with Firebase and MessageKit! Download our free Swift iOS chat template, which has full integration with Firebase Cloud Firestore. Inspired by Facebook Messenger app, this Swift source code will help you integrate a chat into your iOS app extremely quickly, with only a few lines of code. Our extensive documentation will help you get started right away. Build a simple chat application in iOS in minutes, by leveraging our open-source iOS Chat app source code.
Running the app
- Download the source code by cloning this repository
- Download the GoogleService-Info.plist file from your Firebase Console and replace the existing file in ChatApp folder. This will connect the app to your own Firebase instance.
- If you don’t have Cocoapods already, install it by following their instructions
- Install the pods by running
pod update
- Open the xcworkspace file with the latest version of Xcode
Download our free chat app template and make it your own, by skinning the user interface as you want. Follow our detailed Messenger Clone app tutorial on how to make further customizations.
Most iOS apps need a social chat feature built in their user interface. If you're building a social network or functionality that requires chatting (such as customer service, for instance), skip the overhead of implementing everything from scratch and just reuse our free Swift chat implementation. By using Google’s Firebase Cloud Firestore to store and retrieve all the messages, you’re also saving a lot of work that needs to be done on your own servers. An insane amount of work! Plus, it comes with bulletproof security, provided by Google itself. Huge shout out to MessageKit contributors, who made this easier for us!
Interested in making your own native iOS app? See if you can skip the first 1000 hours of work with one of our beautiful iOS app templates.
What Our Clients Are Saying
Speed & Costs
Instamobile's codebase proved to be incredible. We built our solution in just a matter of days. This was a project estimated to 15 months by several development teams we discussed with. It's insane how much money and time it saved us!
CODE QUALITY
I'm really impressed by how well organized the code is. It's relatively easy to add new components and stuff. I'm a newcomer with React Native and it was easy to understand the code. The integration with Firebase is amazing, the app works really fast.
APP PERFORMANCE
Overall, it's remarkable. The code is amazingly clean and well-written -- super elegant. I learned about a lot of performance optimizations that I was not familiar with, such as video compression, memoization, and disk caching. The app is crazy fast!
Meet A Few Team Members
Florian Marcu
Founder & CTO
"I did mobile development at Twitter (4 years), and Facebook (3 years). My code impacted literally billions of users. If you are using Twitter or Instagram for iOS, you are running my code."
Cristina Radulescu
Software Developer
"I'm a fullstack software developer. In my previous job, I was a developer at Uber, in San Francisco, where I spent 4 years in the marketplace team. At Instamobile, I'm focused on the backend side."
Emmanuel Shola
Software Developer
"I have over 5 years of experience doing cross-platform mobile app development in React & React Native. I also have a fair amount of experience with native Swift."
Mostafa Abdelazim
Software Developer
"I worked as a software engineer doing mobile development for over 6 years now. I'm mostly specialized on the Android platform, doing native Kotlin and Flutter."
Frequently Asked Questions
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