I'm no fan of singletons either, but writing one with GCD dispatch_once is pretty simple. Nevertheless, I do have a macro for it: http://lukeredpath.co.uk/blog

I'm no fan of singletons either, but writing one with GCD dispatch_once is pretty simple. Nevertheless, I do have a macro for it: http://lukeredpath.co.uk/blog/a-note-on-objective-c-singletons.html http://lukeredpath.co.uk/blog/a-note-on-objective-c-singleto... It's really for creating "shared" instances rather than true singletons, but who honestly needs a real singleton?