A Swift CMS like no other

Meet the headless Swift CMS that integrates with your app using a straightforward API. Smooth, simple, and tasty content integration — that’s Butter.

Posted on November 28, 2023

Intuitive admin interface

So easy to use. So easy to customize. You’re going to love the content you build better with ButterCMS.

Handy integration with Swift

Our Swift CMS has a simple content API and drop-in Swift SDK that makes the magic happen in minutes, not hours.

A truly zero-maintenance solution

With ButterCMS, you’ll never worry about security upgrades, hosting, or performance again.

Powerful CMS for Swift. Zero headache.

Drop our API-based CMS into your Swift app in minutes. 

ButterCMS provides a component-based CMS and content API for Swift and Swift apps. Use ButterCMS to enable dynamic content in your apps for page content, blogs, and anything else. Most customers get our Swift CMS set up in one hour or less. 

That leaves plenty of time for you and your marketing team to do what you do best: create killer apps with killer content. 

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See how Butter’s API enables you to compose flexible page layouts and easily reorder components, without a developer.

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“Best CMS on the market”

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After shopping the market, it was clear that ButterCMS was the perfect choice. It allows our developers to build powerful components and makes it easy for our marketing team to drive a better customer experience. Hampton Catlin Creator of Sass and Haml

Built to make content marketing easy

ButterCMS is the best headless CMS for Swift for a simple reason: Swift developers can build solutions that marketing people love. Our API allows your content gurus to quickly spin up high-converting, dynamic landing pages, SEO pages, product marketing pages, and more, all using simple drag-and-drop functionality.

  • SEO landing pages
  • Customer case studies
  • Company news & updates
  • Events + webinar pages
  • Education center
  • Location pages
  • And more...

The simplest Swift CMS you'll find

Our simple setup saves you time and money. Take us for a spin to see for yourself!

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It's the epitome of plug-and-play simplicity for content creators. It does exactly what I need it to. LUKE GARDNER, CONTENT SPECIALIST, PRINTAVO

Fast integration with any Swift app

Our mission was to make it easy to integrate Butter with your existing Swift app in minutes. It’s so simple! To demonstrate, here’s a mini tutorial to give you a feel for the process of adding marketing pages to your Swift app.

Of course, you can also use our Collections to do advanced content modeling. For a full integration guide, check out our Official Guide for the ButterCMS Swift API client.

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See how easily you can integrate the ButterCMS Pages API with your Swift app.

Seamless Swift components

Empower your marketing team with dynamic landing pages that align perfectly with your Swift components. 

Components are the essential building blocks of any Swift app, and ButterCMS handles them with ease. 

Our drag and drop interface makes it simple to structure your content to match existing Swift components, and to create new reusable components whenever you need them.

One Swift CMS with everything you need

There’s a reason so many developers are choosing a headless Swift CMS. It’s easy to set up, offers flexible, customizable content modeling, and gives you access to our full Swift API.

  • Custom page types
  • Custom content modeling
  • CDN for assets
  • Webhooks
  • Testing environment
  • Customer case studies
  • Location pages

ButterCMS saves you development time

Most customers get our Swift CMS up and running in less than an hour. Try it yourself!

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Simple as can be, with powerful features and great customer support. DILLON BURNS, FRONT END DEVELOPER, KEYME

How to integrate ButterCMS into your Swift application

Just follow the simple steps below to complete the integration and begin creating pages with Butter. Be sure to check out our full guide to creating pages using the ButterCMS Swift API.

1. First, install our swift package with either the Swift Package Manager or CocoaPods.

For Swift Package Manager:

  • Select XCode > File > Swift Packages > Add Package Dependency.
  • Provide this git repository: https://github.com/ButterCMS/buttercms-swift.git.
  • Then set your version, e.g. 1.0.7

For CocoaPods:

  • Install CocoaPods if not installed already with $ brew install cocoapods
  • Create a Podfile in the root directory of your project with $ pod init and open your generated podfile. For example: $ open -a Xcode Podfile.
  • Update your podfile so it reads like the below snippet, then run $ pod install

target 'YourAppName' do
    use_frameworks!
pod 'ButterCMSSDK', '1.0.7'
end

2. Initialize the SDK:

To get started with the Butter API, instantiate the ButterCMSClient with your ButterCMS API token.

// Initialize Butter client 

import ButterCMSSDK

var butter = ButterCMSClient(apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY")

3. Fetch posts or pages:


All ButterCMS Single Pages and Page Types have a configurable Page schema. In order to fetch a Page via the Swift SDK, you'll need to model the Butter Page schema as a Codable Struct and pass it to the getPages API, which will allow the SDK to deserialize the page data for you.

This is different from Blog posts, which have a fixed data model. For example, to fetch all blog posts, you can use the SDK's getPosts() function:

import ButterCMSSDK
var butter = ButterCMSClient(apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY")
butter.getPosts(parameters: [
  .preview,
  .excludeBody,
  .page(value: 1),
  .pageSize(value: 10)
      ]) { result in
  switch result {
  case .success(let posts):
      //Do something on success
      print("Count: \(posts.meta.count)")
      posts.data.compactMap() { print("Post: \($0.title)") }
  case .failure(let error):
      //Do something on failure
      print("getPost failed with Error: \(error)")
  }
}

4. Integrate into your application.

ButterCMSDK calls to the posts or pages API return JSON responses, like the below sample, which can be easily integrated into the framework of your choice.

{
  "data": {
    "slug": "homepage",
    "name": "HomePage",
    "published":"2021-08-20T15:06:58.237911Z",
    "updated":"2021-08-20T15:06:58.237911Z",
    "page_type": null,
    "fields": {
      "seo_title": "Anvils and Dynamite | Acme Co",
      "headline": "Acme Co provides supplies to your favorite cartoon heroes.",
      "hero_image": "https://cdn.buttercms.com/c8oSTGcwQDC5I58km5WV",
      "call_to_action": "Buy Now",
      "customer_logos": [
        {
          "logo_image": "https://cdn.buttercms.com/c8oSTGcwQDC5I58km5WV"
        },
        {
          "logo_image": "https://cdn.buttercms.com/c8oSTGcwQDC5I58km5WV"
        }
      ]
    }
  }

That's it! With a simple API call, you can grab the data you need from Butter, ready to be fed into your app!

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