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24 alternatives to Desktopr

From web to desktop.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Web2Desk▲503

    Turn your favorite websites into a desktop app in one click

    2018 · web2desk.io · its alternatives →

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    Faster prototyping on desktop

    2021 · framer.com · its alternatives →

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    Convert your web app to desktop app in one click

    2019 · appmaker.xyz · its alternatives →

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    A year ago, my co-founder launched Desktop Docs here on HN. It's a Mac app we built with Electron that uses CLIP embeddings to search photos and videos locally with natural language. We got positive feedback from HN and our first paying customers, but the app was almost 1GB and clunky to use. TLDR; rebuilding in Rust was the right move. So we rewrote the app with Rust and Tauri and here are the results: - App size is 83% smaller: 1GB → 172MB - DMG Installer is 70% smaller: 232MB → 69.5MB - Indexing files is faster: A 38-minute video now indexes in ~3 minutes instead of 10-14 minutes -…

    2025 · desktopdocs.com · its alternatives →

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    Web app to desktop app in minutes

    2023 · todesktop.com · its alternatives →

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    Desktopr▲144

    Make any website your Mac wallpaper

    2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    ToDesktop▲403

    Convert your web app to a desktop app in 2 minutes.

    2019 · todesktop.com · its alternatives →

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    Make any web page a desktop application. Contribute to nativefier/nativefier development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Organize your research and notes beautifully ✨

    2018 · weavatools.com · its alternatives →

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    Build OS X desktop apps using React Native

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The New Native

    2017 · desktop.github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build cross platform desktop apps

    2016 · electronjs.org · its alternatives →

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    A familiar, open-source desktop interface for Podman, Docker and Apple™ Container — local, remote over SSH, and WSL, the same UI on Windows, macOS and Linux. Free, MIT licensed.

    2024 · container-desktop.com · its alternatives →

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    Framac▲103

    An unofficial Framer for Web desktop app for Mac

    2020 · framac.netlify.app · its alternatives →

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    All in one platform for building and releasing desktop apps

    2020 · todesktop.com · its alternatives →

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    A cross platform desktop app for Google Suite.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Sava OS▲139

    A desktop interface for your web browser

    2024 · savaos.com · its alternatives →

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    Use your favorite web apps as desktop apps for fun & profit

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Tauri▲214

    An Electron alternative written in Rust

    2022 · tauri.app · its alternatives →

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    Turn websites into desktop apps with WebCatalog. Organize them in customizable spaces, stay signed in to multiple accounts, launch everything from a personalized home screen, and discover curated apps for Mac and Windows.

    2020 · webcatalog.app · its alternatives →

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    In the [first article in this series](<https://wasmer.io/posts/wasm-as-universal-binary-format-part-1-native-executables>) we demonstrated how you can c...

    2022 · wasmer.io · its alternatives →

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    Bootstrap a crossplatform Desktop Application using tools you probably never heard of. - GitHub - Anonyfox/node-webkit-hipster-seed: Bootstrap a crossplatform Desktop Application using tools you probably never heard of.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Organize your projects and team. Now on Mac, Windows, Linux.

    2018 · zenkit.com · its alternatives →

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