If you can build a website, you can build a desktop app. Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It takes care of the hard parts so you can focus on the core of your application.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux



Tauri is a toolkit that helps developers make applications for the major desktop platforms - using virtually any frontend framework in existence. The core is built with Rust and the CLI leverages Node.js making Tauri a genuinely polyglot approach to creating and maintaining...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone



Google Chrome OS is a Linux-based operating system designed by Google that uses the Google Chrome web browser as its principal user interface, so it works primarily with web applications.


Deno is the open-source JavaScript runtime for the modern web. Built on web standards with zero-config TypeScript, unmatched security, and a complete built-in toolchain.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
- JavaScript
- Typescript
- Visual Studio Code
- WebAssembly
- BSD



Cloudron is a complete solution for managing apps & users on your own server. Easily deploy production ready apps from the app library and keep them automatically up-to-date. It even comes with a built-in email server and web clients!.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted


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Are you a Gmail, Facebook, Basecamp or Pandora fanatic? Do you have 20 or more browser tabs open at all times? Are you tired of some random site or ad crashing your browser and causing you to lose data in other tabs?
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac

Convert websites into standalone desktop apps with enhanced features, multi-account support, and privacy protection through sandboxing.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Microsoft Edge
- Vivaldi
- Google Chrome
- Opera
- Brave
- Mozilla Firefox


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Meteor is a set of new technologies for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time. It is built around Smart Packages: little bundles of code that can run on a client, inside a cloud service, or both, and that can manage their lifetime inside the modern distributed...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Websites have become incredibly powerful tools, often more powerful than traditional desktop apps. However, despite their usefulness, they still live as tabs in our cluttered web browsers and aren’t given all of the benefits of native desktop apps.


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Caspio provides an intuitive visual application builder that guides you through every aspect of creating sophisticated cloud applications. Create custom web forms, searchable databases, multi-user portals, interactive dashboards, automated workflows and much more — in a fraction...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Amazon Web Services


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Raygun error, crash, and performance monitoring helps customer-centric teams detect, diagnose, and resolve software issues impacting real end-users.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- .NET Framework
- JavaScript
- PHP
- Ruby on Rails
- ASP.NET MVC


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Firework is a program for converting websites and web applications into desktop applications. People use one set of web applications every day for work or play. Firework allows you not to lose such a set among browser tabs and keep it always at hand on the Taskbar or in the...
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux


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Productive Web Apps is an interactive directory that lets you search, sort, rate and compare hundreds of the best web applications to help you at work and play!
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online

Feathers is a real-time, micro-service web framework for NodeJS that gives you control over your data via RESTful resources, sockets and flexible plug-ins.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- Node.JS
Quick Web Apps written with love and libcosmic. Turn Any URL into a Web App, running in a separate window of any browser installed on your system, selected according to your preference. Integrates with your desktop environment (icon pinnable to the dock).



[The Aviary Advanced Suite was discontinued. On the official website ( http://www.aviary.com/ ) are available SDK for iOS, Android and WP7 and a Web widget for its image editor. Moreover Aviary Photo Editor is available for various smartphones.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Online

MVC framework making it easy to write realtime, collaborative applications that run in both Node.js and browsers.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Expressive middleware for node.js using generators via co to make web applications and APIs more enjoyable to write. Koa's middleware flow in a stack-like manner allowing you to perform actions downstream, then filter and manipulate the response upstream.
Sails.js make it easy to build custom, enterprise-grade Node.js apps. It is designed to mimic the MVC pattern of frameworks like Ruby on Rails, but with support for the requirements of modern apps: data-driven APIs with scalable, service-oriented architecture.
Wordpress to App is the brand behind a team that converts your WordPress website into a native mobile app for Android and iOS in less than 24 hours. We offer a great service at a lower cost than the competitors.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Software as a Service (SaaS)


Durandal is a cross-device, cross-platform client framework written in JavaScript and designed to make Single Page Applications (SPAs) easy to create and maintain.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
The Famous Engine is a free and open source JavaScript rendering engine. What makes the Famous Engine unique is its JavaScript rendering engine and 3D physics engine that gives developers the power and tools to build native quality apps and animations using pure JavaScript.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- JavaScript
Seamlessly convert web apps into desktop apps Applicationize converts your favorite web apps into desktop apps with their own dedicated launcher icon.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Chrome OS





























































