xcbeautify
October 21, 2025 ยท View on GitHub

xcbeautify is a little beautifier tool for xcodebuild.
A faster alternative to xcpretty written in Swift.
Features
- Human-friendly and colored output.
- Supports the new build system's output.
- Supports Xcode's parallel testing output.
- Supports formatting Swift Package Manager output.
- Supports generating JUnit reports.
- Supports macOS & Linux.
- Written in Swift:
xcbeautifycompiles to a static binary which you can bring anywhere. This also means less Ruby-dependant in your development environment and CI.
Installation
Homebrew
brew install xcbeautify
Mint
mint install cpisciotta/xcbeautify
Build from source
git clone https://github.com/cpisciotta/xcbeautify.git
cd xcbeautify
make install
Usage
xcodebuild [flags] | xcbeautify
If you want xcbeautify to exit with the same status code as xcodebuild
(e.g. on a CI):
set -o pipefail && xcodebuild [flags] | xcbeautify
For parallel and concurrent destination testing, it helps to use unbuffered I/O for stdout and to redirect stderr to stdout.
NSUnbufferedIO=YES xcodebuild [flags] 2>&1 | xcbeautify
swift test [flags] 2>&1 | xcbeautify
GitHub Actions
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xcbeautify features an integrated GitHub Actions renderer that harnesses workflow commands to highlight warnings, errors, and results directly within the GitHub user interface. To utilize this function, simply run xcbeautify and add the --renderer github-actions flag during execution:
set -o pipefail && xcodebuild [flags] | xcbeautify --renderer github-actions
TeamCity
xcbeautify features an integrated TeamCity renderer that harnesses service messages to highlight warnings, errors, and results directly within the TeamCity user interface. To utilize this function, simply run xcbeautify and add the --renderer teamcity flag during execution:
set -o pipefail && xcodebuild [flags] | xcbeautify --renderer teamcity
Azure DevOps Pipeline
xcbeautify features an integrated Azure DevOps Pipeline renderer that harnesses logging commands to highlight warnings, errors and results directly within the Azure DevOps Pipeline user interface. To utilize this function, simply run xcbeautify and add the --renderer azure-devops-pipelines flag during execution:
set -o pipefail && xcodebuild [flags] | xcbeautify --renderer azure-devops-pipelines
Development
Generate Xcode project:
make xcode
Release a new version, e.g. x.y.z:
make release version=x.y.z
Contributing
Please send a PR!

