Love it! Not an iOS dev, but have built a personal app that I want to publish for macOS too. I built on top of SQLite, but didn’t want to tackle the synchronisation yet. That should solve it.

It employs a „last edit wins“ strategy for conflict resolution, which is fine in my case. Obviously could be too basic for collaborative apps.

I find "Fast lightweight replacement for SwiftData that can target all the way back to iOS 13" (when SwiftUI came out I think) to be such a hard sell. How many businesses are there that must absolutely (1) run their apps on iOS 13; (2) use declarative syntax for data persistence; and (3) are profitable enough to invest time and effort on learning a third-party library for a really old OS? It sounds like an overly specific use case.

In general though, I'm not sure who finds PointFree's work a net positive investment of resources, but the company seems to be in the business of reinventing the wheel and locking you in so that you'll pay for support. Meanwhile, Apple's own SDKs are free. And with Apple's history of source-breaking changes over major platform updates, plus given how even huge libraries/tools like Alamofire, Realm, RxSwift, Cocoapods eventually succumbed to oblivion, I can't think of why an Apple developer with any modicum of discernment would choose PointFree's tools over Apple's own--unless they are themselves caught by the allure of reinventing the wheel.

Unrelated, but as a backend dev who recently worked in Swift/SwiftUI to build an app, the iOS developer experience is absolutely horrendous

GRDB/GRDB-Query (https://github.com/groue/GRDB.swift) is another solid library worth looking at if you're looking for libraries in this space, though it doesn't have CloudKit support out of the box.

The more SwiftData alternatives the better -- as it has a lot of rough edges, and Apple hasn't invested much in it since it's initial launch.