Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to daedalOS
Desktop environment in the browser
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. daedalOS launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Demo: https://dustinbrett.com Hey HN! I've been building my passion project daedalOS for over 4 years now. The original idea was to give visitors to my website the experience as if they had remotely connected to my personal machine. To do this I decided I would attempt to recreate as much of the functionality as possible. My hope is to keep working on this project for the rest of my life and continue to evolve it's capabilities as technologies progress. Thanks for checking it out!
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · signalsandsorcery.org · its alternatives →
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Mostly vibe-coded Apple Containers front-end that I'd like to use myself. But if others want to use it, here's the source code.
Jul 2026 · davit.app · its alternatives →
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Web2Desk▲503Turn your favorite websites into a desktop app in one click
2018 · web2desk.io · its alternatives →
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exaequOS, your browser is your computer
2023 · exaequos.com · its alternatives →
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ToDesktop 2.0▲380All in one platform for building and releasing desktop apps
2020 · todesktop.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · desk.glitchy.website · its alternatives →
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Octopus.do▲257FREE visual sitemap builder with lo-fi wireframes for prototyping website architecture & structure. Use our website planning and site mapping tool to create a site map instantly. Our website diagram tool and website mapping is extremely fast and easy, we promise!
2019 · octopus.do · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, in my last vacation, I built desktopcolors.com as a place to collect iconic solid background colors. Let me know what you think.
Aug 2026 · desktopcolors.com · its alternatives →
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A native desktop app for Google Allo
2018 · allofordesktop.com · its alternatives →
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Hermes Desktop▲215An open source terminal agent that builds its own skills
Jun 2026 · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com · its alternatives →
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Earlier this year, we released our open-source game engine [0] built with Rust, WebAssembly, and WebGPU. Today, we’re happy to announce the Ambient platform, which brings web deployment, server hosting, and more to the runtime. With Ambient, you can make a game, deploy it to the browser in one command, share your URL and instantly play with others, no downloads or installs needed. Our WASM use is innovative; it is being used as both a sandboxed runtime for user code, and as a way to run the entire Ambient runtime in the browser. This, paired with our ECS data model, enables a highly modular…
2023 · ambient.run · its alternatives →
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LT Browser▲200Next-gen browser to build, test & debug mobile websites
2021 · testmuai.com · its alternatives →
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A design system for building faithful recreations of the Windows 7 UI.
2025 · khang-nd.github.io · its alternatives →
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Blanc▲93A minimal browser with a floating island for a toolbar
Sep 2026 · blancbrowser.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I've always loved the aesthetic, quirks, and concepts of Plan9, and I wanted to see how far I could vibe-code a web desktop/OS that resembled it. The result is DWS OS. My goal was to reach a point where I could build "userspace" apps for this OS, in the OS. DWS OS has a virtual filesystem, an approximation of the ACME editor, file browser, internet browser (just an iframe for fun), and a few other apps to discover. The environment supports uploading and downloading data from the virtual filesystem, along with support for JavaScript programming within ACME and an API for building…
2025 · dws.rip · its alternatives →
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Not really an oprating system, Just a pile of javascript pretending to be a Desktop Environment - Lerc/notanos
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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