Alcatraz is an open-source package manager for Xcode. It allows you to discover and install plugins, templates and color schemes. Here the top 4 plugins which can shorten your development time when code with Xcode. You can download them by installing Alcatraz.

1. Auto Highlight Symbol

By default, Xcode highlights selected instances by dash lines, which is hard to be noticed. This plugin can highlight the selected instance with chosen background color.

2. KSImageNamed-Xcode

Don't want to find the name of an image by searching a list of images? This plugin lets you to type in [NSImage imageNamed: or [UIImage imageNamed: and all the images in your project will appear in an autocomplete menu.

3. VVDocumenter-Xcode

Documentation is a good practice for software deveolopment. But typing /** and handling the indentation in Xcode a waste of time. This plugin can generate a document template when you type ///.

4. XAlign

Code alignment is important for code readability. This plugin can align you code by just pressing Shift+Cmd+X.