awesome-electron-alternatives

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A curated list of alternatives to Electron for building desktop applications

A curated list of awesome Electron alternatives.

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👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives
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👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / C#(.Net)
Orleans 10,142 7 days ago : Cloud Native application framework for .NET
Avalonia : Avalonia UI creates pixel-perfect, native, create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET
Uno : Pixel-Perfect Multi-Platform Applications with C# and WinUI
Chromely 2,977 almost 2 years ago : Build HTML Desktop Apps on .NET/.NET Core/.NET 5 using native GUI, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS
SpiderEye 217 almost 2 years ago : Cross platform .Net Core applications with a webview UI
Photino.NET 928 about 1 month ago : Photino uses the OSs built-in WebKit-based browser control for Windows, macOS and Linux. Photino is the lightest cross-platform framework. Compared to Electron, a Photino app is up to 110 times smaller! And it uses far less system memory too!
foton 10 over 1 year ago : Prototype for an Electron alternative written in C# by Integrative Software LLC and contributors

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / C/C++
Qt : Qt (pronounced "cute") is free and open-source cross-platform software for creating graphical user interfaces as well as cross-platform applications
wxWidgets : wxWidgets is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, macOS, Linux and other platforms with a single code base. It has popular language bindings for Python, Ruby, Lua, Perl and several other languages
sciter : Embeddable HTML/CSS/JavaScript engine for modern UI development
Ultralight : Ultra-fast, ultra-light, standards-compliant HTML renderer for applications and games. Based on WebKit— supports most modern HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript features while still remaining light and configurable
Webview 12,710 6 days ago : Tiny cross-platform webview library which uses Cocoa/WebKit on macOS, gtk-webkit2 on Linux and Edge on Windows 10
Molybden : An SDK for building modern and secure cross-desktop apps with HTML/CSS/JavaScript GUI
Saucer 297 19 days ago : 🛸 Next-gen desktop apps with web-frontend in C++
tiny 54 7 months ago : This is a tiny alternative to electron
UnityHub 371 28 days ago : A native alternative to the heavy Electron Unity Hub, written in C++. UnityHubNative is a lightweight C++ / wxWidgets alternative to the unnecessarily heavy official Unity Hub, built using wxWidgets. This means that, instead of using heavy web components like the official Electron hub, it uses native GUI components on all platforms. It launches many times faster, uses far less memory and CPU, and is a fraction of the total size of the offical Unity Hub

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / Crystal
Crystal Webview 94 over 1 year ago : Crystal language bindings for , a tiny cross-platform webview library which uses Cocoa/WebKit on macOS, gtk-webkit2 on Linux and Edge on Windows 10)

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / Dart
flutter : Flutter is an open source framework by Google for building beautiful, natively compiled, multi-platform applications from a single codebase

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / Delphi
FMX (FireMonkey) : The FireMonkey® framework is the app development and runtime platform behind RAD Studio, Delphi and C++Builder. FireMonkey is designed for teams building multi-device, true native apps for Windows, OS X, Android and iOS, and getting them to app stores and enterprises fast

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / Elm
Elm UI : UI library for making web applications with Elm

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / Go
lorca 8,040 4 months ago : Build cross-platform modern desktop apps in Go + HTML5
wails 25,498 7 days ago : Create beautiful applications using Go
muon 2,889 over 1 year ago : Lightweight alternative to Electron written in Golang in about ~300 LoC, using Ultralight instead of Chromium

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / Guile
guile-pstk 6 over 2 years ago : fixed to work fine on modern GNU Guile
guile-webview 13 about 1 year ago : Wrapper for using libwebview from GNU Guile

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / Haskell
Fudgets : Fudgets is primarily a Graphical User Interface Toolkit for Haskell and the X Windows system. Fudgets also makes it easy to create client-server applications that communicate via the Internet. It runs on Unix but not on Windows
Keera Hails 196 over 2 years ago : Keera Hails is a library to connect values that change with one another using rules or relations. Keera Hails is back-end agnostic and not exclusive to GUIs; it has backends for Gtk+ but also hardware (wiimotes), files, sockets and FRP-driven networks (using Yampa), and experimental backends for wx, qt, HTML DOM (using GHCJS) and Android's widget toolkit. It has been used commercially in production in medium-sized applications (10K-20K locs)
Threepenny-gui : Threepenny-gui is a GUI framework that uses the web browser as a display. It supports Functional Reactive Programming
webviewhs : webviewhs is a Haskell binding to the webview library created by Serge Zaitsev. This binding allows the creation of rich web-based UI experiences wrapped up in the powerful, type-safe embrace of Haskell. To render the UI it uses Cocoa/WebKit on macOS, gtk-webkit2 on Linux and MSHTML (IE10/11) on Windows
Monomer 597 7 months ago : Monomer is an easy to use, cross platform, GUI library for writing native Haskell applications. It provides a framework similar to the Elm Architecture, allowing the creation of GUIs using an extensible set of widgets with pure Haskell

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / Java
Swing : Swing is a GUI widget toolkit for Java.[1] It is part of Oracle's Java Foundation Classes (JFC) – an API for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for Java programs
OpenJFX or JavaFX : JavaFX is an open source, next generation client application platform for desktop, mobile and embedded systems built on Java. It is a collaborative effort by many individuals and companies with the goal of producing a modern, efficient, and fully featured toolkit for developing rich client applications
webview 5 over 7 years ago : Template project for Android Studio that allows you to create an android webview application in minutes. You can use it to create a simple app for your website or as a starting point for your HTML5 based android app

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / Javascript/TypeScript
Sciter.JS : Is a 5MB HTML/CSS/JS (ES6) runtime aimed as a direct Electron replacement
electrino 4,389 almost 2 years ago : Desktop runtime for apps built on web technologies, using the system's own web browser engine
nidium : A powerful rendering engine for modern mobile applications. Unlike many solution, nidium doesn't rely on webviews or native OS widgets. Instead, it uses its own high-performance rendering engine to draw custom widgets
modern-hta 25 about 1 month ago : Run modern code in an HTML Application
React Native Desktop 1,215 over 3 years ago Cross-platform React Native Desktop port based on Qt framework
NodeGui 8,928 3 days ago : Powered by Qt5, , ,
Astrodon 941 over 1 year ago : Desktop App Framework (not there yet!) for Deno, based on Tauri
webview_deno 1,448 8 days ago : 🌐 Deno bindings for webview, a tiny library for creating web-based desktop GUIs
DeskGap : bundles a Node.js runtime and leaves the HTML rendering to the operating system‘s webview)
NW.js : Similar to electron, )
Neutralinojs : chromium module is replaced with either user’s web browser or built-in browser component. Node run-time is replaced with a lightweight web server which exposes native OS functionality)
Proton Native : does the same to desktop that React Native did to mobile, based on
Graffiti 938 about 1 year ago : HTML/CSS engine for node.js and deno
Gluon 3,100 about 1 year ago Uses normal system installed browsers (not webviews) and NodeJS, also supports Firefox
Avernakis 85 almost 2 years ago Nodejs addon for Avernakis SDK, use TypeScript to develop modern desktop app with powerful UI kits
WelsonJS 229 1 day ago : Build Windows desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS based on WSH/HTA or GTK
Vuido 6,105 almost 2 years ago : Creating native desktop applications based on Vue.js, based on
quasar : Vue.js based framework, which lets web developer to quickly create responsive websites/apps
ProtonShell 5 about 1 month ago : Lightweight shell for websites, simple web applications, built on the Microsoft Edge system browser
Electrobun : Electrobun aims to be a complete solution-in-a-box for building, updating, and shipping ultra-fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop applications written in Typescript. Under the hood, it uses bun to execute the main process and to bundle webview typescript, and has native bindings written in zig

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / Julia
MouseTrap 413 9 months ago : GUI Engine made for Julia

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / Kotlin
Compose Multiplatform : Declarative framework for sharing UIs across multiple platforms. Based on Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Developed by JetBrains and open-source contributors

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / Nim
nimx 1,102 over 1 year ago : Desktop, Mobile & Web GUI framework in Nim
NiGui 724 4 months ago : A cross-platform, desktop GUI toolkit
ui 240 almost 2 years ago : Wrapper for libui. Beginnings of what might become Nim's official UI library
iup 47 about 3 years ago : Wrapper for IUP. Beginnings of what might become Nim's official UI library
SDL2 234 22 days ago : Official wrapper for SDL 2.x
SDL2 145 over 2 years ago : A wrapper for SDL 2
Owlkettle 384 11 days ago : Declarative user interface framework based on GTK
wNim 326 5 months ago : Nim's Windows GUI Framework
gintro 298 over 1 year ago : High-level GObject-Introspection based GTK3/GTK4 bindings for Nim
nimqml 166 8 months ago : Qt QML bindings for the Nim programming language
Neel 230 about 1 year ago : A library for making Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps
nimview 150 about 2 years ago : A Nim/Webview based helper to create desktop/server applications with Nim and HTML/CSS
webgui 141 20 days ago : Web technologies based cross-platform GUI Framework with a dark theme
fidget 767 8 months ago : Figma based UI library for Nim, with HTML and OpenGL backends
nsciter : High-level and low-level Nim wrapper for
imgui 134 12 months ago : ImGui bindings for Nim via cimgui
nimAntTweakBar 11 about 3 years ago : Wrapper for AntTweakBar
ggplotnim 177 about 1 month ago : A port of ggplot2 for Nim
plotly 181 8 months ago : A plotly wrapper for Nim
graph 28 over 4 years ago : A basic plotting library in Nim
nimetry 7 over 5 years ago : Simple plotting in pure Nim
nimgraphviz 6 about 3 years ago : A Nim library for making graphs with GraphViz and DOT

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / No-code\Low-code
Kodular : Much more than a modern app creator without coding
Bubble : Design, develop, and launch production-grade applications without code. It doesn't matter if you’re starting out or on an enterprise team — Bubble is for anyone

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / Perl
Gtk : Gtk3 - Perl interface to the 3.x series of the gtk+ toolkit
Prima : Prima - a perl graphic toolkit
Perl Executing Browser 66 24 days ago : Perl Executing Browser (PEB) is an HTML user interface for Perl 5 desktop applications. It is a C++ Qt 5 application running local Perl scripts as child processes without server. Inspired by Electron and NW.js, PEB is another reuse of web technologies in desktop applications with Perl doing the heavy lifting instead of Node.js
Tk : Perl/Tk is an extension for writing Perl programs with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) on both Unix and Windows 95/NT. Tk was originally developed as an extension to the Tcl language, for use with the X Window System on Unix
Tkx : Tkx - Yet another Tk interface
Wx : The Wx module is a wrapper for the wxWidgets (formerly known as wxWindows) GUI toolkit

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / PHP
NativePHP : NativePHP is a new framework for rapidly building rich, native desktop applications using PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript
PHP TkUI 492 9 months ago : Build native desktop applications using PHP and Tcl/Tk

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / Python
fbs : Python and Qt are great for writing lightweight desktop apps. But packaging, installers, code signing and automatic updates are a pain. fbs solves these problems and saves you months of development
PyQt : PyQt is a Python binding of the cross-platform GUI toolkit Qt, implemented as a Python plug-in. PyQt is free software developed by the British firm Riverbank Computing
PySide : PySide is a Python binding of the cross-platform GUI toolkit Qt
Kivy : The Open Source Python App Development Framework. Build and distribute beautiful Python cross-platform GUI apps with ease. Kivy runs on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS and Windows
PyGUI : An project to develop a cross-platform pythonic GUI API
Flet : The fastest way to build Flutter apps in Python
Eel 6,507 11 days ago A little Python library for making simple Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps
wxPython : Cross-platform GUI toolkit for the Python language. With wxPython software developers can create truly native user interfaces for their Python applications, that run with little or no modifications on Windows, Macs and Linux or other unix-like systems
Tkinter : The Tkinter module or "Tk interface" is the standard Python interface to the Tk GUI toolkit. Both Tk and Tkinter are available on most Unix platforms, as well as on Windows systems. Tk itself is not part of Python; it is maintained at ActiveState
pywebview 4,805 1 day ago : Build GUI for your Python program with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Pysimplegui : PySimpleGUI creates graphical user interfaces (GUIs) using Python, quickly and easily!
NiceGUI : NiceGUI is an approachable web-based UI toolkit for Python that can self-host with auto-refresh as you update the source, with a rich set of UI widgets
Toga : Toga is a Python native, OS native, cross-platform GUI toolkit. Toga consists of a library of base components with a shared interface to simplify platform-agnostic GUI development

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / R
gWidgets : API for writing graphical user interfaces (GUIs) within R. The package is cross-platform (Linux/Mac/Windows) and cross-toolkit (RGtk2, qtbase, tcltk)
fGui : Rapidly create a GUI interface for a function you created by automatically creating widgets for arguments of the function. Automatically parses help routines for context-sensitive help to these arguments. The interface essentially a wrapper to some Tcl/Tk routines to both simplify and facilitate GUI creation. More advanced Tcl/Tk routines/GUI objects can be incorporated into the interface for greater customization for the more experienced
Shiny : Easy web apps for data science without the compromises

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / Reason
revery-ui : Fast, native, cross-platform UI

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / Rebol
Native Gui : The primary objectives of the R3 GUI have been clearly stated in prior documents. However, to be sure we're all in sync: the GUI is designed to make simple apps simple, and sophisticated apps possible. That is, you really can write a useful app in just a few lines of GUI dialect, and a full scale app may require just a few dozen pages

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / Red
Drawing 60 about 2 months ago : Draw is a dialect (DSL) of Red language that provides a simple declarative way to specify 2D drawing operations. Such operations are expressed as lists of ordered commands (using blocks of values), which can be freely constructed and changed at run-time
Native GUI 60 about 2 months ago : The Red/View (or just View) component is a graphic system for the Red programming language
Layout 60 about 2 months ago : VID stands for Visual Interface Dialect. Its purpose is to provide a simple dialect (DSL) for describing graphic user interfaces on top of the Red View engine

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / Ruby
Glimmer 570 3 months ago : A Domain-Specific Language & metaframework for building GUI apps using Ruby, with bindings for various GUI libraries and also Web
qtbindings 340 almost 4 years ago : Ruby bindings for Qt
tk 118 10 months ago : Ruby bindings for Tcl/Tk
ruby-gnome 386 13 days ago : Ruby bindings from GNOME/GTK3
JRubyFX 147 over 2 years ago : JRuby wrapper on JavaFX
traveling-ruby 2,107 4 months ago : Runtime to bundle Ruby applications into executables

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / Rust
gtk-rs : Rust bindings for GTK
tauri 85,913 about 9 hours ago : Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend
GPUI : A fast, productive UI framework for Rust from the creators of

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / V
ui 100 1 day ago : Isaiah's cross-platform GUI library for V. Inspired by the syntax of Java's Swing
mui 105 4 months ago : A Cross-Platform UI Library in vlang
viup 46 11 months ago : A V wrapper for the cross-platform UI library, IUP
vi-v 8 almost 4 years ago : Vi-v is a visual scripting UI for vlang. It allows anyone to create their own programs easily without an extensive programming skill
vxui 9 15 days ago : vxui is a cross-platform desktop UI framework which use your browser as screen, and use V lang as backend. It reply on Websocket, no http/https, no web server!

👓 Awesome Electron.js Alternatives / 👓 Alternatives to the Electron.js ⚛ / Visual programming
Blockly Blockly is a visual programming editor by Google that uses drag-and-drop blocks. It's the engine that powers the most popular coding education programs world
Livecode : Lightweight language with [native GUI], integrated IDE, and visual interface builder
Positron 1 7 months ago : List of electron apps so I can avoid them, and some alternatives to use instead
Awesome Alternatives to Electron Apps 2 over 4 years ago : Electron is an application platform which spreads like a cancer in software development world making your immensely powerful computer feel slow and laggy. Sometimes apps made in Electron are useful, though. This list contains good alternatives to an memory hungry eco-unfriendly Electron software
Comparison of Browser Engines : A browser engine (also known as a layout engine or rendering engine) is a core software component of every major web browser. The primary job of a browser engine is to transform HTML documents and other resources of a web page into an interactive visual representation on a user's device. Besides "browser engine", two other related terms are commonly used: "layout engine" and "rendering engine". In theory, layout and rendering (or "painting") could be handled by different engines. In practice, however, these components are tightly coupled and rarely encountered on their own outside of the browser engine
Web To Desktop Framework Comparasion 1,437 2 days ago : This repository was made to create an objective comparison of multiple framework that grant us to "transform" our web app to desktop application formats
Awesome-electronjs-hacking 590 4 months ago : A curated list of awesome resources about Electron.js (in)security
Qt : Qt (pronounced "cute") is free and open-source cross-platform software for creating graphical user interfaces as well as cross-platform applications
jscherer92/Quark 270 almost 5 years ago : Create Applications with browser technologies using the native engine in your OS
Xojo : Build Native, Cross-Platform Apps.Rapid application development for Desktop, Web, Mobile & Raspberry Pi
LambdaNative : LambdaNative is freely available under the BSD license, extensively documented, and hosted on GitHub. LambdaNative builds native applications on a wide range of platforms including iOS, Android, Blackberry, OS X, Linux, Windows, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenWrt, from a single source code
REVERY : Fast, native, cross-platform UI
8th : 8th lets you use your preferred platform to write and test your code. With one click, you generate the executables for any platform 8th supports, from any platform it supports!
CEF : Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). A simple framework for embedding Chromium-based browsers in other applications
yue/yue 3,450 22 days ago : A library for creating native cross-platform GUI apps
Godot : Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
HaxeUI based cross platform (desktop, mobile, web) UI framework
HTA/HTML Application : HTML Application or "HTA" is a Microsoft Windows program whose source code consists of HTML, Dynamic HTML, and one or more scripting languages supported by Internet Explorer, such as VBScript or JScript. The HTML is used to generate the user interface, and the scripting language is used for the program logic. An HTA executes without the constraints of the internet browser security model; in fact, it executes as a "fully trusted" application

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