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 Fluid, Nativefier, NeutralinoJS and Photino.
Alternatives list
- 44 Electron alternatives
29 Fluid alternativesAre you a Gmail, Facebook, Basecamp or Pandora fanatic? Do you have 20 or more browser tabs open at all times? Are you tired of some random site or ad crashing your browser and causing you to lose data in other tabs?
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
14 Nativefier alternativesNativefier 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
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
31 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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COSMIC 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
32 Web Apps alternativesInstall 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
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