Rewriting Notion in SwiftUI
Apple this week confirmed that Notion is migrating its user interface to SwiftUI, citing the app’s desire for greater performance and UI consistency than its existing web-based stack can deliver.
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The callout was clearly deliberate; Notion is one of the most widely used productivity apps on the Mac, and has long been criticized for the sluggishness that comes with its Electron-based architecture.
Previously:
- Claude Desktop App
- Gemini 3.0 and Antigravity
- Electron Apps Causing System-Wide Lag on Tahoe
- Is Electron Really That Bad?
- Rewriting SoundCloud in SwiftUI
- Rewriting Remotion in SwiftUI
- 1Password 8 for Mac
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"Notion is one of the most widely used productivity apps on the Mac"
Never heard of it and their home page does not help figuring out what this solution actually does. Is it an announcement as big as when Maya was ported to Mac OS X?
I’d be curious to know how many others like Notion will do the same (Slack and Asana would be nice for instance) and if SwiftUI will make the resulting app any good, where “better than Electron” isn’t a bar high enough.
Meanwhile Gruber just tore SwiftUI a new asshole https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/swiftui_only_makes_it_easy_to_develop_bad_apps
These SwiftUI guys are clowns. Look at all the comments here and on various forums. It has flipped. SwiftUI haters are the majority now I think. Give it the Liquid Glass treatment so they fucking deprecate it and/or put it on the back burner where it belongs. Think of all the improvements that could've been made to AppKit over that last 10 years. Instead they obsess on this shitty side project and they can't even get Undo/Redo right. I encourage everyone to keep telling Apple that this shit sucks otherwise this is what we are going to get stuck with.
> I’d be curious to know how many others like Notion will do the same
Not many. All these AI apps are Electron. Claude, Codex. Hermes Desktop. They probably bribed them..."we'll mention you at WWDC if you use SwiftUI." Traditionally you go native to provide better UX but SwiftUI sucks just as much so there is no point.
