Apple Dev Search: A search engine for Apple developer blogs

2026-03-24

This isn't new, but I'm convinced it's useful and think it needs a boost. Also, it might be a slight antidote to LLMs helping themselves to all our content.

appledevsearch.com is a search engine; it searches blog posts written by people who develop for Apple platforms. Hopefully the uses are obvious: pick just about any topic you can think of to do with iOS and macOS development and someone will have been writing about it.

Sure, you'll have regulars that you read, but you can't follow everyone! When you land, there's a list of the latest articles from whoever's been writing. But there's also a great depth of past material – just waiting there until you need to find out about a particular topic.

At the time of writing it's searching 14989 articles across 674 blogs (including this one).

I built it a few years ago, so it's been around for a while. Frankly I'm kind of surprised that more people don't use it – I find it fairly useful myself. I hope people still read! Possibly it doesn't help that I changed the domain at some point (it used to be iosdevsearch.com).

Of course, you could use a generic search engine, but I bet you'd get more noise than you do with this.

The blog list comes from the iOS Dev Directory, so if you write and you're not listed there, then you should go and sort that out. Dave has some recent comments about the directory too.

A note: there are a bunch of blog categories in the directory. Apple Dev Search indexes just one of them: development blogs, which is material written by individuals. Of course there will be other good stuff in other categories too, but I was finding with company blogs in particular that you end up with a lot of content marketing. We don't want that.