Think of Alcatraz as the Xcode equivalent of Will Bond's "Package Control" package for Sublime Text. Cocoapods is a dependency manager, more like PHP's composer

Think of Alcatraz as the Xcode equivalent of Will Bond's "Package Control" package for Sublime Text. Cocoapods is a dependency manager, more like PHP's composer.phar (or whatever your language of choice's current dependency-manager-of-choice happens to be).