Four ways to learn
Full courses with progressive learning paths, mini-courses focused on a single framework, quick tips for everyday problems and reusable code snippets explained in context.
Learn Swift. Everywhere.
Courses, mini-courses and real code to become a native Apple developer — on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
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Be Native brings together structured training, guided projects and practical content updated every week. Explore sample lessons from many courses before subscribing, and keep every line of source code you see in the videos.
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iOS 1.13 · macOS 1.02
Free download
- 5
- levels, from beginner to expert
- 10+
- years teaching Apple development
- Weekly
- new content, aligned with iOS and WWDC
- 3
- platforms, one single subscription
What is Be Native
One app to learn, practise and stay current
Training that makes sense for where you are right now: read code, understand it, and write your own with intent.
All the source code
Every line used in the training videos ships with the lesson. Study it, run it, adapt it. No transcribing from a screen recording.
English and Spanish audio
New training comes with both audio tracks, professional subtitles and full transcripts. Dual audio keeps expanding across the back catalogue.
Ask Be Native
Ask about what you are studying and get an answer grounded in your own courses, lessons, podcasts, articles and transcripts. It runs on your device, and any code snippet can be explained with one tap.
Podcasts, articles and news
Original podcasts, newsletters, live sessions and articles about the Apple ecosystem — free for everyone, no subscription required.
Notes, folders and timestamps
Save snippets, ideas and video notes anchored to the exact second. Markdown, folders and sync across every device you sign in on.
Learning path
Five levels. Start where you actually are.
Begin from scratch with Swift, or jump straight into SwiftUI, UIKit or the framework you need. Every level builds on the one before it, so you always know what comes next.
Beginner
Swift from zero: syntax, types, control flow and your first app.
Junior
SwiftUI, navigation, state and data persistence in real projects.
Intermediate
Architecture, concurrency, networking, UIKit interop and testing.
Senior
Performance, quality, production data flows and complex frameworks.
Expert
Advanced projects, technical decisions and end-to-end AI integration.
Learning
Four formats, one path
Not everything you need to learn takes a twelve-hour course. Be Native mixes formats so the depth always matches the question you actually have.
- Courses with progressive learning paths and guided projects.
- Mini-courses focused on one framework, tool or goal.
- Quick tips that solve everyday development problems.
- Practical, reusable snippets explained with real context.
- Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, SwiftData, architecture, Xcode, GitHub and AI-assisted development.
- New content every week, in step with iOS, Swift and WWDC.
- Library groups what you have saved, started and finished, with search, sorting and filters.
Notes
Notes anchored to the exact second
Take notes at specific timestamps in your videos and organise them into folders. Save code snippets, tips, resources and free-form ideas, written in Markdown and shareable as plain text.
- Up to 10 notes without an account; unlimited once you sign in.
- Synced across iPhone, iPad and Mac.
- Video notes jump straight back to the moment you saved them.
- Your latest notes sit right below your folders, and code snippets show their language and a peek at the code.
- Recently Deleted keeps what you delete until you empty it.
Apple Intelligence
Ask your library, on your device
Ask Be Native answers questions using your own courses, lessons, podcasts, articles and transcripts. Spotlight finds lessons by idea, not just by matching words, and any code example can be explained in a structured, readable breakdown.
- Runs on device: your questions never leave your iPhone, iPad or Mac.
- SiriAI can find lessons, create and manage notes, and play podcasts.
- Ask Be Native and SiriAI need iOS 27 or macOS 27 with Apple Intelligence, and a Mac with Apple silicon. SiriAI is in beta and works in English for now.
Learn to code first, then let AI multiply you. Using AI without knowing how to program is not the same as using it with real technical judgement.
Bilingual
Audio and subtitles in English, so nothing gets lost
New training ships with English and Spanish audio tracks, professional subtitles in both languages and full transcripts you can search and read alongside the video. Switch the audio language and the transcription follows — and the app remembers your choice.
Original podcasts are recorded in Spanish.
Insight
Podcasts, masterclasses, live streams, articles and newsletters
The editorial side of Be Native is free for everyone. Original podcasts about the Apple ecosystem, newsletters, articles and YouTube integration so you catch live streams, video podcasts and masterclasses without leaving the app. Article read-aloud remembers your place across all your devices.
Free with no account and no subscription.
New on iPhone Duo
At home on iPhone Duo
Open it, close it, fold it or stand it on its side: Be Native adapts to what you are doing, with layouts made for every pose.
- Fold it like a little laptop: the video stays on top and the details sit below, and it keeps playing while you fold and unfold.
- Open it like a book to read articles and turn the pages, with the spine right on the hinge.
- Close it and lay it on its side to turn it into an alarm clock: the video fills the screen and podcasts get big, easy controls.
On Mac
A Mac app built from scratch for macOS
Be Native is on the Mac App Store as a genuinely native, multi-window app. Keep a lesson open in one window, its source code in another and your notes in a third — the setup that works for you, not a stretched iPad app.
- Real multi-window workspace.
- Code notes and explanations with Apple Intelligence.
- Favourites and Share in the toolbar, and Now Playing shows the lesson card with its course.
- One subscription across iPhone, iPad and Mac, with the same access level.
Sign in
There is no password to steal
Be Native never had a password field, so there is nothing to leak, reuse or phish. Signing in uses passkeys — the WebAuthn standard built into Apple platforms — or Sign in with Apple.
Passkeys are the FIDO2/WebAuthn standard, supported across Apple platforms.
Your key never leaves your device
The private key stays in your device's secure storage. Our server only ever holds the public half, which is useless to anyone who steals it.
Phishing does not work
A passkey is bound to benative.dev. A lookalike site cannot ask for it, because your device will not offer it to any other domain.
Nothing to remember, nothing to reset
Face ID or Touch ID and you are in, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. No password to invent, no reset email, no credential recycled from another site.
We never see a secret
Be Native does not store, transmit or verify any password, because none exists. Sign in with Apple is available too, with Hide My Email if you prefer.
Screenshots
See it before you download it
The same content, adapted to each platform.
How it works
Start free. Go deeper when you want to.
Two ways to use Be Native, and the first one costs nothing.
The editorial side, free for everyone
Podcasts, videos, articles, newsletters and live sessions about the Apple ecosystem. Plus sample lessons from many courses, so you can try the teaching method before deciding anything. No account required to start.
- Original podcasts, videos and articles
- Sample lessons from many courses
- Notes: 10 free without an account, unlimited once you sign in
- Semantic search, on your device
Structured training, by subscription
The guided learning paths, the projects and the full source code are the part that a subscription unlocks — across the five levels, from beginner to expert. One subscription covers iPhone, iPad and Mac with the same access.
- Complete courses with guided learning paths
- All lesson source code
- The five levels, from beginner to expert
- One subscription for iPhone, iPad and Mac
You will find the available subscriptions inside the app, on the App Store.
Accessibility
Built to be used by everyone
Be Native publishes Apple's Accessibility Nutrition Labels on the App Store. They are not a promise on a marketing page: Apple shows them on the product page, and every feature declared there has to actually work.
Declared on the App Store product page
- VoiceOver Descriptive labels, hints and custom actions; live updates keep VoiceOver focus.
- Voice Control Native controls throughout, so spoken commands work without special cases.
- Larger TextiPhone and iPad Dynamic Type across body copy, headings and interactive labels.
- Dark Interface Light and Dark Mode built on semantic colours, tested in both.
- Differentiate Without Colour Alone Icons, underlines and text labels back up every colour cue.
- Sufficient Contrast Text and key interface elements meet WCAG 2.1 AA on supported backgrounds.
- Reduced Motion Transitions become crossfades and parallax is dropped when the system asks.
- Captions Time-synced closed captions on video lessons.
The full picture
The Mac app carries the same declarations — its label is filed and will be published when the app clears review on the Mac App Store. Audio descriptions are the one feature not supported on any platform. Accessibility is reviewed internally every release cycle, and findings are fixed before an update ships.
Found a barrier? Write to info@benative.dev.
Read the accessibility statement
Privacy
Privacy you can check before you download
Apple publishes the privacy label on the Be Native product page, and every build ships a privacy manifest that Apple reads on submission. Those documents say what the app collects. This section says the same thing in plain language — and the shortest line matters most: there is no tracking.
The data Be Native declares on the App Store
- NameData Not Linked to YouThe name on your profile and the name you give on the support form. It exists only if you create an account or write to us, and it is declared for app functionality alone.
- Email addressData Not Linked to YouOnly if you create an account or write to support through the form. With Sign in with Apple you can use Hide My Email, and then what we hold is Apple's relay address, not your real one.
- Other user contentData Not Linked to YouYour notes, notebooks and folders — including the notes you attach to favourites — once you sign in and they sync between your devices. Declared for app functionality and analytics.
- Search historyData Not Linked to YouThe terms people search for, kept in aggregate: the term and how many times it was searched. That record has no user field at all, so a search is never tied to whoever typed it.
- User IDData Not Linked to YouYour account identifier, so it exists only if you choose to create an account. It is what makes your progress, notes and subscription work on every device you sign in on. Declared for app functionality and analytics; never for advertising.
- Device IDData Not Linked to YouUsed for usage statistics. Declared as not linked, which means those records are not joined to your account or your name.
- Product interactionData Not Linked to YouWhich features get opened, and how often, so we know what to improve next. Also declared as not linked to your identity.
- Performance dataData Not Linked to YouThe app version, device model and system version, sent along with the support form so we know which version and device you are writing from. Only when you write to us.
What the app does not do
- No tracking. The privacy manifest inside the app declares tracking as false, and not one of the declared data types is collected for tracking.
- No App Tracking Transparency prompt. That system dialog asks permission to track you; Be Native has nothing to ask for, so it never appears.
- No advertising, and no advertising identifier.
- Nothing sold, and nothing shared with any company for advertising or profiling.
- No third-party analytics or advertising code inside the app.
- No account needed to read, watch and listen. The free catalogue works without giving us any personal data at all.
- No password to store or to leak: signing in uses passkeys or Sign in with Apple.
- Apple Intelligence features run on your device. Your question, the code on screen and the explanation never leave it.
- Subscriptions are handled by the App Store, so Be Native never sees your payment details.
- This website loads no third-party fonts, no analytics and no advertising: the typefaces are served from benative.dev, so your visit is not reported to anyone.
The full picture
Every data type in that list is declared as not linked to your identity — Apple's own wording, which we use instead of calling anything anonymous. Several of them appear only if you choose to: an account needs an identifier and an email address to restore your subscription and sync your notes, and a message to support carries your name, your email address and the app and device versions you are writing from. Two companies take part in delivering the service: Axinom, in Germany, hosts and delivers the video, captions and transcripts, and Apple runs App Store subscriptions, sign-in and the security checks that protect playback. Neither is given your data for advertising.
A question about your data? Write to info@benative.dev.
Read the privacy policy
FAQ
Questions worth answering
What is Be Native?
Be Native is an app for iPhone, iPad and Mac that teaches Swift, SwiftUI and native development for Apple platforms. It includes free podcasts, videos and articles, plus subscription-based structured courses across five difficulty levels, from beginner to expert.
Is Be Native free?
You can start for free: all podcasts, videos and articles are free for everyone, and many courses include sample lessons. The structured training — guided learning paths, projects and source code — is what a subscription unlocks. You will find the available subscriptions inside the app.
Do I need prior experience?
No. You can start from scratch with the Swift from zero path, or jump straight into SwiftUI, UIKit or another framework if you already have a foundation. The five levels exist so every learner finds the right starting point.
Which devices does it support?
iPhone and iPad with iOS or iPadOS 18.4 and later, including iPhone Duo with layouts for every pose, and Mac with the app available on the Mac App Store. One subscription covers them all with the same access level.
Is the lesson source code included?
Yes. All source code used in the training videos ships with the lesson and is free to use. You can follow along, copy it and practise directly in Xcode without writing everything from scratch.
Is the app available in English?
Yes. New training content ships with English and Spanish audio tracks, professional subtitles in both languages and full transcripts, and dual audio keeps expanding across the historical catalogue. Original podcasts are recorded in Spanish.
How does the AI work, and is it private?
It all runs on your device with Apple Intelligence and the Foundation Models framework, and nothing is sent to an external server. With iOS 27 or macOS 27, Ask Be Native answers questions from your own library and Spotlight finds lessons by idea. On earlier systems, semantic search still runs on device, refined by Foundation Models where Apple Intelligence is available. Code explanations need a device compatible with Apple Intelligence, and Ask Be Native on Mac needs Apple silicon.
How often is content updated?
New content is published every week, aligned with the iOS release cycle and WWDC announcements. YouTube integration means live streams, video podcasts and masterclasses are available without leaving the app.
Be honest with yourself for a second
Be Native does not promise shortcuts. Our content is 25% of the journey; the other 75% is you writing code, practising and learning from your own mistakes. If you want shortcuts, this is not your app. If you want solid foundations and constant evolution, it is.
Understand the code. Change the world.