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flutter/flutter

Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond

AI dev

Stack

Dart Android Flutter Shelf CMake CocoaPods Dart Pub

GitHub topics

#android #app-framework #cross-platform #dart #dart-platform #desktop

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-19
History: 3 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 13,254 open

179,049

stars

Forks: 31,785
Commits: 91,640 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ChatGPTNextWeb/NextChat

✨ Zero-config AI chat assistant. No API key needed — sign up and instantly chat with GPT-5, Claude 4, Gemini 2.5, DeepSeek & 100+ top models. Pay-as-you-go saves you more. Available on Web, iOS, macOS, Android, Linux, Windows.

Stack

TypeScript Next.js React Tauri Cargo Yarn

GitHub topics

#calclaude #claude #cross-platform #desktop #fe #gemini

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2023-03-07
History: 123 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 853 open

88,840

stars

Forks: 58,850
Commits: 3,143 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

HeyPuter/puter

🌐 The Internet Computer! Free, Open-Source, and Self-Hostable.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Express Vite npm

GitHub topics

#cloud #cloud-os #cloud-storage #desktop #desktop-environment #dropbox

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-03-03
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 35 open

43,424

stars

Forks: 4,052
Commits: 6,552 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tinyhumansai/openhuman

The fastest, cheapest, most efficient open-source agent harness. Run more than 500 agents on a $10 VPS.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum React Tailwind CSS Tauri Cargo npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#agent-orchestration #ai-agents #ai-assistant #desktop #llm #local-first

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 7 list mentions
First commit: 2026-01-26
History: 110 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 371 open

42,121

stars

Forks: 4,155
Commits: 41,610 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +324 +0.8%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +5,835 +16.3%

Website GitHub

nwjs/nw.js

Call all Node.js modules directly from DOM/WebWorker and enable a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies.

Stack

JavaScript npm pip

GitHub topics

#desktop #javascript #node-webkit #nodejs #nwjs #web-application-framework

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-11-01
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 912 open

41,169

stars

Forks: 3,851
Commits: 5,844 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

DevToys-app/DevToys

A Swiss Army knife for developers.

Stack

C# ASP.NET Core .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#blazor #cross-platform #csharp #desktop #desktop-app #desktop-application

Updated: 2026-02-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-09-05
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 341 open

31,931

stars

Forks: 1,750
Commits: 1,081 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Anuken/Mindustry

The automation tower defense RTS

Stack

Java Android Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #desktop #game #java #mindustry #mobile-game

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2017-04-30
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 25 open

28,959

stars

Forks: 3,764
Commits: 21,486 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

flet-dev/flet

Build realtime web, mobile and desktop apps in Python only. No frontend experience required.

AI dev

Stack

Python Android FastAPI Flutter pytest Bundler CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#android #cross-platform #desktop #flutter #ios #python

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-03-24
History: 46 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 329 open

16,663

stars

Forks: 691
Commits: 1,575 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

infinitered/reactotron

A desktop app for inspecting your React JS and React Native projects. macOS, Linux, and Windows.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Electron Expo React React Native Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#debugging #desktop #react-native #reactjs #reactnative #reactotron

Updated: 2026-08-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-04-12
History: 12 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 156 open

15,591

stars

Forks: 970
Commits: 6,310 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher

:mag: Quick file search & app launcher for Windows with community-made plugins

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#alfred #application-launcher #desktop #finder #flow-launcher #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-12-19
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 306 open

15,511

stars

Forks: 643
Commits: 11,666 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dail8859/NotepadNext

A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#desktop #editor #linux #macos #notepad #notepad-plus-plus

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-11-27
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 91 open

14,555

stars

Forks: 912
Commits: 1,066 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

bitwarden/clients

Bitwarden client apps (web, browser extension, desktop, and cli).

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Angular Electron Tailwind CSS Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#angular #bitwarden #browser-extension #chrome #cli #desktop

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-12-09
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,307 open

13,761

stars

Forks: 2,018
Commits: 22,950 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Zettlr/Zettlr

Your One-Stop Publication Workbench

Stack

TypeScript Electron Vue Yarn

GitHub topics

#desktop #docx #electron #html #languages #libreoffice

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2017-12-26
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 543 open

13,593

stars

Forks: 846
Commits: 9,311 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

elkowar/eww

ElKowars wacky widgets

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#desktop #eww #gtk #gtk-rs #gtk3 #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-09-19
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 379 open

12,654

stars

Forks: 536
Commits: 718 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bytebot-ai/bytebot

Bytebot is a self-hosted AI desktop agent that automates computer tasks through natural language commands, operating within a containerized Linux desktop environment.

Archived

Stack

TypeScript Express NestJS Next.js React npm

GitHub topics

#agent #agentic-ai #agents #ai #ai-agents #ai-tools

Updated: 2025-09-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-02-03
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 72 open

11,085

stars

Forks: 1,520
Commits: 499 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

popcorntime/popcorntime

Popcorn Time™ puts everything in one place. Your favorite platforms, your shows, your movies-ready when you are.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Axum React React Native Tailwind CSS Cargo npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#android #desktop #ios #linux #macos #popcorn

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-03-17
History: 46 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 66 open

10,682

stars

Forks: 741
Commits: 51 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

devhubapp/devhub

TweetDeck for GitHub - Filter Issues, Activities & Notifications - Web, Mobile & Desktop with 99% code sharing between them

Stack

TypeScript Android Electron Next.js React CocoaPods Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#android #cross-platform #desktop #devhub #electron #github

Updated: 2024-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-11-19
History: 6 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 105 open

10,135

stars

Forks: 859
Commits: 2,727 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mockoon/mockoon

Mockoon is the easiest and quickest way to run mock APIs locally. No remote deployment, no account required, open source.

Stack

TypeScript Angular Electron Express npm

GitHub topics

#api #application #desktop #electron #mock #mock-api

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-07-17
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 32 open

8,419

stars

Forks: 478
Commits: 1,918 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

podman-desktop/podman-desktop

Podman Desktop is the best free and open source tool to work with Containers and Kubernetes for developers. Get an intuitive and user-friendly interface to effortlessly build, manage, and deploy containers and Kubernetes — all from your desktop.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Electron Express React Svelte npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#container #containers #desktop #docker #hacktoberfest #kubernetes

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-03-08
History: 10 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 877 open

8,022

stars

Forks: 567
Commits: 11,447 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

thewh1teagle/vibe

Transcribe on your own!

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Axum Express React Tailwind CSS Cargo pnpm uv

GitHub topics

#ai #cross-platform #desktop #openai #rust #transcribe

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-01-08
History: 69 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 231 open

7,796

stars

Forks: 566
Commits: 1,919 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +15 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

os-js/OS.js

OS.js - JavaScript Web Desktop Platform

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#cloud-platform #desktop #javascript #osjs #web-desktop

Updated: 2022-12-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-02-16
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 20 open

7,079

stars

Forks: 864
Commits: 65 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ytmdesktop/ytmdesktop

A Desktop App for YouTube Music

Stack

TypeScript Electron Fastify Vite Vue Yarn

GitHub topics

#app #desktop #discord #electron #electron-application #javascript

Updated: 2026-09-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-10-19
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 356 open

6,546

stars

Forks: 624
Commits: 1,385 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

apache/maka

Apache Maka (Incubating) is a high-performance agent workspace that keeps a complete record of everything it did.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Astro Electron Express React Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#agent-runtime #ai #ai-agent #apache #cli #desktop

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2026-05-19
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 383 open

5,811

stars

Forks: 551
Commits: 5,084 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors

Open-source office suite pack that comprises all the tools you need to work with documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs, and PDF forms on Windows, Linux, and macOS

GitHub topics

#collaboration #desktop #docx #excel #form-builder #office

Updated: 2026-05-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-10-03
History: 9 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 477 open

5,429

stars

Forks: 542
Commits: 210 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

frappe/books

Free Accounting Software

Archived

Stack

TypeScript Electron Tailwind CSS Vite Vue npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#accounting #book-keeping #desktop #double-entry-accounting #electron #frappe

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-01-01
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 144 open

5,000

stars

Forks: 1,158
Commits: 3,978 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

meowtec/imgo

🖼️ Image optimization app for macOS, Windows and Linux.

Stack

TypeScript Astro React Tailwind CSS Tauri Cargo npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#cross-platform #desktop #image-compression #jpeg #jpegmini #linux-app

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2026-08-20
History: 13 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 59 open

4,442

stars

Forks: 316
Commits: 40 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +5 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +2 +5.3%

Website GitHub

meowtec/Imagine

🖼️ PNG/JPEG optimization app for macOS, Windows and Linux.

Stack

TypeScript Electron React Vite npm

GitHub topics

#cross-platform #desktop #image-compression #jpeg #jpegmini #linux-app

Updated: 2023-08-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-06-01
History: 10 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 61 open

4,404

stars

Forks: 319
Commits: 302 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

pojala/electrino

Desktop runtime for apps built on web technologies, using the system's own web browser engine

Stack

C# .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#desktop #electron #electronjs #javascript #macos #webkit

Updated: 2022-12-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-05-02
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 21 open

4,397

stars

Forks: 97
Commits: 48 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

lencx/nofwl

NoFWL Desktop Application

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#application #chatgpt #desktop #linux #macos #tauri

Updated: 2024-01-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-02-22
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 83 open

4,136

stars

Forks: 388
Commits: 53 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

klaudiosinani/tusk

Refined Evernote desktop app

Stack

JavaScript Electron npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#app #desktop #evernote #hacktoberfest #yinxiang

Updated: 2026-06-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-08-07
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 191 open

3,152

stars

Forks: 242
Commits: 624 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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