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Swift Package Manager is the official package manager for Xcode. It's been available for a few years now and a lot of third party iOS/macOS projects support it. I haven't had to touch CocoaPods in many years. For the past 5 years I've been using Carthage, and more recently everything is SPM.

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Sadly, the existence of Swift Package Manager has pretty much taken all the wind out of the sails of third-party package managers, and it has done so far too early.

Why is it too early? We’ve had great success with SPM even if it’s not at feature parity with some of the 3rd party package managers. Now if only Apple actually accepted contributions on github rather than linking you to the swift jira then we might get more community involvement with SPM.

SPM is missing a lot of things that a package manager typically lets you do–it's very focused on a handful of specific cases and falls down if you try to diverge from that.

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