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.
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Webapp Manager Alternatives
Webapp Manager is described as 'Are you often struggling to find a particular website among the many browser windows and tabs already opened? Do you wish you could easily just launch your favorite websites and have them run in their own window as if they were desktop applications?' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Webapp Manager for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and Flathub apps. The best Webapp Manager alternative is Electron, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Webapp Manager are Nativefier, NeutralinoJS, Photino and Pake.
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Nativefier is a command-line tool to easily create a desktop application for any web site with succinct and minimal configuration. Apps are wrapped by Electron in an OS executable (.app, .exe, etc.) for use on Windows, macOS and Linux.
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
Photino is a lightweight open-source framework for building native, cross-platform desktop applications with Web UI technology.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
33 Native Alpha alternativesNative Alpha lets you create full screen Web Apps with shortcuts and custom settings.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Android
- F-Droid
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux Mobile
- Ubuntu Touch
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30 COSMIC Web Apps alternativesCOSMIC Web Apps written with love and libcosmic. Allow you to simply create web applications from given URL working inside separate window of your browser of choice. Works on most mainstream desktop environments with all the mainstream web browsers installed via flatpak.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
Install websites as desktop apps, so that they appear in their own windows separate from any browsers installed. Links to websites other than the one installed open in a new browser window. This is similar to the "Install as App" feature found in popular web browsers.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
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 (MIT)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- React
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