Electron makes it easy to build cross-platform desktop apps with web technologies, so easy it's been used to power some hugely popular apps. Check out this list of them.
As with Electron, Atom is built by GitHub and its beautiful code editing experience provides a powerful showcase for Electron's capabilities, highlighting its strength as a fully adept cross-platform development tool.
Free, extensible code editor with Git integration, AI-driven IntelliCode, and 30,000+ extensions, supporting various languages like Python, Java.
Electron is so good, even Microsoft jumped on board and created this gorgeous and powerful IDE with it.
A simple and elegant alternative to WordPress, Ghost's Electron-powered desktop app makes it easy to interact with Ghost blogs.
Open-source software for creating websites and blogs with an emphasis on accessibility, ease of use, performance, and security.
WordPress stands as the biggest name in blogging and the company behind it all used Electron to bring WordPress.com to the desktop.
Light Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games. It provides the real time feedback we need to not only answer questions about our code, but to understand how our programs really work.
Known widely for its powerful live coding features, Light Table uses Electron to take its elegant IDE to multiple desktop platforms.
Having trouble managing a busy team or staying on top of everything happening at work?
Flow's intuitive task manager is brought to the Mac desktop with Electron.
Facilitates teams' real-time collaboration with versatile chat interface and advanced search in configurable channels across multiple platforms.
Slack is an indispensable tool for many online businesses and Electron drives its integrated desktop app.
Now part of the Docker tool set, Kitematic uses Electron to make Docker easier to use.
Send hilarious, fun, animated GIFs when you chat with your friends with PopKey + GIF Keyboard! Easily search, discover and send the latest and greatest GIFs from pop culture, movies, TV shows, and more.
Possibly the easiest way to find and share fun and entertaining GIF images, PopKey supports multiple platforms including Mac and Windows with its Electron-powered app.
A terminal emulator for the 21st century. (formerly) Black Screen is a terminal emulator and interactive shell with auto-completion.
Black Screen is a great-looking terminal emulator with Atom-like auto-completion built in.
Available across platforms via Electron, Marp makes it super easy to create a presentation from a Markdown document. Just use --- to separate slides and it takes care of the rest.
Pencil is a standalone app that lets you create diagrams or UI mockups. It doesn't have collaboration/multi-user features.
Pencil's full-featured, cross-platform GUI prototype tool was rewritten to make use of Electron for much easier development going forward.
Cross-platform cloud note-taking with plain text, syncing, tagging, real-time collaboration, markdown, version history, and open-source clients.
Simplenote is a super convenient, cross-platform note app that keeps notes locally for privacy and security reasons. It's made by the people behind WordPress, who use Electron to bring its great note taking features to the desktop.
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