Free NW.js Alternatives

The best free alternative to NW.js is Electron, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to NW.js and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to NW.js are Tauri, NeutralinoJS, Photino and B4X.

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  1. Electron icon
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    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.

    46 Electron alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. Tauri icon
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    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...

    16 Tauri alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
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  3. NeutralinoJS icon
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    Neutralino is a lightweight application development framework. It lets you develop desktop apps, cloud apps and even browser based apps.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. Photino icon
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    Photino is a lightweight open-source framework for building native, cross-platform desktop applications with Web UI technology.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. B4X icon
     52 likes

    Cross platform development tools for native iOS, Android, desktop and server applications. B4X is a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool for real world apps. The programming language is a modern version of Visual Basic.

    72 B4X alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  6. WebDGap icon
     11 likes

    WebDGap allows you to convert any website or HTML/CSS/JavaScript web application to a native Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome application.

    53 WebDGap alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • Self-Hosted
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  7. Buntralino icon
     6 likes

    Buntralino unites Bun and Neutralino.js to make a simpler, lighter alternative to Electron and NW.js. Use Neutralino.js API at client and send harder tasks to Bun while keeping your development process easy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  8. Revery icon
     1 like

    Native, high-performance, cross-platform desktop apps - built with ReasonML. Revery is kind of like super-fast, native code Electron - with bundled React-like/Redux-like libraries and a fast build system - all ready to go.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Appcelerator Titanium, offered for free by Appcelerator, lets web developers use web technologies, open source and cloud computing to build native apps for iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  10. DeskGap icon
     1 like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  11. pywebview icon
     2 likes

    pywebview is a lightweight cross-platform wrapper around a webview component that allows to display HTML content in its own native GUI window. You may think of as Electron for Python (minus huge executable sizes).

    15 pywebview alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. Vuido icon
     4 likes

    Vuido leverages the simplicity of Vue.js along with the open-source libui library to let you create lightweight, native desktop application. Applications can run cross-platform using native GUI components (different from Electron-based desktop web apps).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Vue.js
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