Converting tkinter Python to Swift

Cliff — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 07:55:26 +0000

Hi,

I’m a newbie here and looking for some guidance. I’m a keyboard player in a cover band and looking to create an iPad app to help me manage song sets. I have a prototype in Python on my Mac but I want to be able to port to my iPad, so I guess I’ll finally have to learn Swift. 😳 A friendly AI ported it to Swift but now Xcode wants a dev license. I’ve heard there’s a free hobbyist license where I can write something which is just for me. Google advises it exists, but Apple’s web site always wants $100.

I’ve looked into Swift Playground but my Python’s code version is over 3k lines.

What’s the best way to get my app over onto my iPad? Should I just suck it up and pay $100 or is there a free solution out there? I’m not against doing all of the dev on the iPad itself, even using a different language but I’m not sure if a tool exists out there that can support more than “hello, world”.

Any pointers, guidance or software avoidance warnings would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,

Cliff
Souderton, PA USA

Note:
I realize there are iPad apps out there which have this functionality but I have some specific user requirements that none seem to offer completely.

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Converting tkinter Python to Swift