Ultralight Alternatives

Ultralight is described as 'D HTML UI kit for use with games and desktop apps. It's essentially a stripped and rebuilt version of WebKit designed for speed, performance and efficiency' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Ultralight for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Ultralight alternative is Electron, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ultralight are Photino, Sciter, Google Cobalt and NoesisGUI.

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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.

    43 Electron alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Comments about Electron as an Alternative to Ultralight
    Guest
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    electron isn't embedded nor does it run natively and/or on the gpu.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Electron is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Ultralight.

    • Electron is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Ultralight.

    • Electron is Free and Open SourceUltralight is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Photino icon
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    Photino is a lightweight open-source framework for building native, cross-platform desktop applications with Web UI technology.

    40 Photino alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Sciter icon
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    Use HTML and CSS to build cross-platform desktop apps. Sciter provides a stack of GPU-accelerated web technologies for desktop UI development.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Comments about Sciter as an Alternative to Ultralight
    Paulo Coghi
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    It uses less RAM than both Electron and Ultralight, creates only a single process and it's cross-platform.

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    • Sciter is Freemium and ProprietaryUltralight is Paid and Proprietary
    • Sciter is LightweightUltralight is not according to our users
  4. 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
     
  5. NoesisGUI icon
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    NoesisGUI is a User Interface middleware for videogames and realtime applications:

    12 NoesisGUI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Android Tablet
     
    • NoesisGUI is the most popular Android, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to Ultralight.

    • NoesisGUI is Free Personal and ProprietaryUltralight is Paid and Proprietary
  6. Revery icon
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    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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. 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
     
  8. azula icon
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    azula is a lightweight alternative to Electron. It is based on Ultralight, which is an embedding friendly Fork of WebKit, with less memory usage and low disk space requirements.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Coherent GT icon
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    Coherent GT is a user interface runtime for game UI based on a heavily modified version of WebKit. It removes unnecessary features of Webkit and involves rewriting of some elements to get it finely tuned for performance in games.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Coherent GT is the most popular commercial alternative to Ultralight.

    • Coherent GT is Paid and ProprietaryUltralight is also Paid and Proprietary
  10. 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
     
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