There are a few open source libraries for managing CoreData from a higher level now (like NSOperation for GCD). This post by Mattt Thompson (of course) on NSHi

There are a few open source libraries for managing CoreData from a higher level now (like NSOperation for GCD). This post by Mattt Thompson (of course) on NSHipster has links to wrappers, adapters, synchronizers and utilities for working with CoreData: http://nshipster.com/core-data-libraries-and-utilities/ http://nshipster.com/core-data-libraries-and-utilities/ I highly recommend reading that before starting any CoreData project, and reading over that whole site in general to add new tools/concepts to the Objective-C and iOS Framework toolbelt.