TourKit launches and reaches 100 GitHub stars

TourKit began as a practical piece of our own product work.

We wanted a polished, Apple-style onboarding experience that could be reused across our Mac apps. It needed to support clear feature walkthroughs, feel at home on macOS, and save us from rebuilding the same foundation for every product.

Once it was working well, keeping it private no longer made much sense.

The tweet that changed the launch

On April 17, 2026, we shared a short TourKit demo on X. The post went viral, travelled far beyond our usual audience, and brought a wave of developers to the project.

The response reinforced something we have seen repeatedly: a focused developer tool can resonate quickly when it solves a familiar problem and shows its value without requiring a long explanation.

Shipping version 1.0

We released TourKit 1.0 on April 22, 2026.

TourKit is a Swift package for building feature walkthroughs and onboarding flows. It includes a SwiftUI slideshow view and a ready-to-use floating window controller for macOS. It is released under the MIT License, so developers can use it in personal and commercial projects.

Our own apps, including Presentify, FaceScreen, KeyScreen, and ToDoBar, use the package.

The first 100 stars

Soon after launch, the TourKit repository crossed 100 GitHub stars.

Stars are not the purpose of an open-source project, but they are a useful sign that the work has reached people who may build on it. For a small package that started as an internal component, reaching that milestone felt special.

TourKit is still young. We are looking forward to seeing where other developers take it.