Electron Alternatives

Electron is described as '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' and is a very popular app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Electron for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Self-Hosted apps. The best Electron alternative is Qt, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Electron are Tauri, Flutter, NW.js and NeutralinoJS.

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  1. Slint icon
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    GUI toolkit for Rust, C++, and JavaScript to efficiently develop fluid graphical user interfaces for embedded devices and desktop applications.

    20 Slint alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  2. Uno Platform icon
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    Uno is the platform for building native mobile, desktop and WebAssembly apps with C#, XAML from single codebase. It's a Universal Windows Platform Bridge that allows UWP-based code (C# and XAML) to run on iOS, Android, and WebAssembly.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
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    An open source native runtime that makes it easy to build cross-platform apps that run equally well on iOS, Android, and the Web.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  4. DeskGap icon
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    DeskGap is a framework for building cross-platform desktop apps with web technologies (JavaScript, HTML and CSS).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  5. Chromely icon
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    Chromely is a lightweight alternative to Electron.NET, Electron for .NET/.NET Core developers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Iced icon
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    iced is a cross-platform GUI library for Rust. It is inspired by Elm, a delightful functional language for building web applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Rust
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Google Cobalt icon
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    Cobalt is a lightweight HTML5/CSS/JS application container that is designed to provide a rich application development environment with minimal resource consumption (deployment size, RAM, CPU, GPU). At the same time, Cobalt enables a rich, low-latency user experience across a...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Proton Native icon
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    Proton Native offers a React environment for building native desktop applications. It's sort of like React Native but for desktop apps.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • React
     
  9. Webber icon
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    Webber effortlessly installs local shortcuts for any webpage.

    12 Webber alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux Mobile
    • Ubuntu Touch
     
  10. Gio icon
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    Gio is a library for writing cross-platform immediate mode GUI-s in Go. Gio supports all the major platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, iOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and WebAssembly.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
    • iPad
    • WebAssembly
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. ToDesktop icon
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    With ToDesktop your users can install your web app (or website) to their computer and launch it from the same place as other desktop apps on Windows, Mac and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • ToDesktop is the most popular SaaS alternative to Electron.

    • ToDesktop is Paid and ProprietaryElectron is Free and Open Source
  12. Ribir icon
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    Ribir is a Rust GUI framework that helps you build beautiful and native multi-platform applications from a single codebase.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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