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Desktop projects on GitHub

Desktop platform software and cross-platform desktop application development.

As of , the most-starred Desktop projects on GitHub are opencode (215.3K stars), flutter (180.3K stars) and PowerToys (139.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 501 Desktop repositories with 8.1M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was opencode, with +1.3K stars in a day.

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8.1MStars in total
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Top 100 of 501 · by stars

  1. #1 · anomalyco/opencode

    opencode

    OpenCode is an open source AI coding agent that helps you write, explore, and edit code, available as a CLI and now also as a beta desktop app.

    215.3K
  2. #2 · flutter/flutter

    flutter

    Flutter is Google's SDK for building beautiful, fast apps for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase.

    180.3K
  3. #3 · microsoft/PowerToys

    PowerToys

    PowerToys is a collection of over 30 utilities from Microsoft that let you customize Windows and streamline everyday tasks, like a window manager, color picker, bulk file renamer, and more.

    139.4K
  1. 4

    v2rayN

    118.5K2dust/v2rayN · C#

    v2rayN is a free, open-source GUI client for Windows, Linux and macOS that manages proxy connections using protocols like V2Ray, Xray, sing-box, Trojan, Shadowsocks and others.

  2. 5

    browser-use

    118.3Kbrowser-use/browser-use · Python

    Browser Use is an open-source browser agent that lets AI models control a real web browser - navigating sites, filling forms, handling CAPTCHAs, and completing tasks like booking appointments.

  3. 6

    awesome-mac

    116.4Kjaywcjlove/awesome-mac · Swift

    It is a curated, categorized list of high-quality macOS software, covering everything from text editors and developer tools to design apps, utilities, and security tools.

  4. 7

    ant-design

    99.8Kant-design/ant-design · TypeScript

    Ant Design is an enterprise-class UI design language and a React component library for building web applications.

  5. 8

    OpenCut

    95.2KOpenCut-app/OpenCut · TypeScript

    OpenCut is a free, open-source video editor meant to be a CapCut alternative, built to work across web, desktop, and mobile.

  6. 9

    zed

    91.9Kzed-industries/zed · Rust

    Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor built by the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, designed to feel extremely fast and support real-time collaboration.

  7. 10

    opencv

    91.2Kopencv/opencv · C++

    OpenCV is a widely used open-source library for computer vision, image processing, and machine learning, offering tools for tasks like object detection, video analysis, and camera calibration.

  8. 11

    vue-element-admin

    90.1KPanJiaChen/vue-element-admin · Vue

    vue-element-admin is a production-ready front-end solution for building admin interfaces, built on Vue and the element-ui component toolkit.

  9. 12

    NextChat

    88.9KChatGPTNextWeb/NextChat · TypeScript

    NextChat is a fast, lightweight AI chat assistant that lets you talk to GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and 100+ other models through one unified interface, deployable with a single click or self-hosted.

  10. 13

    Font-Awesome

    77KFortAwesome/Font-Awesome · JavaScript

    Font Awesome is an icon toolkit that ships icons as SVG, icon fonts, and CSS, used by millions of designers and developers to add scalable icons to websites and apps.

  11. 14

    tabby

    75KEugeny/tabby · TypeScript

    Tabby is a highly configurable terminal emulator, SSH and serial client for Windows, macOS and Linux, formerly known as Terminus.

  12. 15

    cline

    70.5Kcline/cline · TypeScript

    Cline is an open source coding agent that runs in your IDE, terminal, or desktop: it reads your project, edits code across files, and executes shell commands to build, test, and deploy.

  13. 16

    uBlock

    68.6Kgorhill/uBlock · JavaScript

    uBlock Origin (uBO) is a free, open-source browser extension that blocks ads, trackers, coin miners, popups, anti-blockers, and malware sites in Chromium and Firefox.

  14. 17

    drawio-desktop

    63.5Kjgraph/drawio-desktop · JavaScript

    drawio-desktop is the official Electron build of draw.io, a desktop diagramming app that wraps the core draw.io editor so you can build flowcharts and diagrams without a browser.

  15. 18

    Pake

    62.2Ktw93/Pake · Rust

    Pake turns any webpage into a small, fast desktop app with a single command — ChatGPT, YouTube, Notion, whatever you use daily.

  16. 19

    Motrix

    57Kagalwood/Motrix · TypeScript

    Motrix is a free, full-featured download manager for HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, and magnet links, built as a desktop app with an optional headless server mode.

  17. 20

    CLIProxyAPI

    55.6Krouter-for-me/CLIProxyAPI · Go

    CLIProxyAPI is a proxy server that exposes OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, and Grok compatible API endpoints, letting you access CLI-based AI accounts (Antigravity, ChatGPT Codex, Claude Code, Grok Build, Muse Code, Devin) through any standard OpenAI/Gemini/Claude-compatible client or SDK.

  18. 21

    goose

    55.4Kaaif-goose/goose · Rust

    Goose is an open-source, general-purpose AI agent that runs on your machine to help with code, research, writing, automation, and data analysis — not just code suggestions, but actually installing, executing, editing, and testing things for you.

  19. 22

    ChatGPT

    54.6Klencx/ChatGPT · Rust

    ChatGPT Desktop is a native desktop wrapper around ChatGPT, built with Tauri and Rust, available as a dedicated app for Mac, Windows and Linux.

  20. 23

    lx-music-desktop

    54.5Klyswhut/lx-music-desktop · TypeScript

    LX Music Desktop is a free, open-source Electron and Vue 3 desktop music player that streams tracks by pulling data from Chinese music platforms (like Kuwo, Kugou, Migu) via configurable 'source' plugins.

  21. 24

    pdf.js

    54Kmozilla/pdf.js · JavaScript

    PDF.js is a PDF viewer built with HTML5, community-driven and supported by Mozilla. Its goal is a general-purpose, web standards-based platform for parsing and rendering PDFs.

  22. 25

    dbeaver

    52.1Kdbeaver/dbeaver · Java

    DBeaver is a free universal database tool and SQL client for developers, DBAs and analysts, supporting almost any database that has a JDBC or ODBC driver.

  23. 26

    jadx

    51Kskylot/jadx · Java

    jadx is a Dex to Java decompiler: command line and GUI tools that produce Java source code from Android Dex and Apk files.

  24. 27

    spotube

    50.1Kteam-spotube/spotube · Dart

    Spotube is an open-source, cross-platform music streaming app for desktop and mobile that lets you bring your own music metadata, playlists, and audio sources through plugins instead of relying on one locked-in backend.

  25. 28

    x64dbg

    49.9Kx64dbg/x64dbg · C++

    x64dbg is an open-source user-mode debugger for Windows, built specifically for reverse engineering and malware analysis.

  26. 29

    iina

    46.8Kiina/iina · Swift

    IINA is a free, open-source, modern video player built specifically for macOS, using mpv for media decoding.

  27. 30

    TrafficMonitor

    46.6Kzhongyang219/TrafficMonitor · C++

    TrafficMonitor is a floating desktop widget for Windows that shows your current network speed, CPU usage, and memory usage in real time, with optional taskbar embedding and skins.

  28. 31

    vnpy

    45.9Kvnpy/vnpy · Python

    VeighNa (vnpy) is an open-source Python framework for building quantitative trading systems, used by hedge funds, brokerages, and futures companies in China.

  29. 32

    omarchy

    45.1Komacom/omarchy · Shell

    Omarchy is an opinionated, pre-configured Linux desktop setup created by DHH, built on Arch Linux and the Hyprland window manager, bundling curated apps, themes, and keybindings for a polished out-of-the-box experience.

  30. 33

    edex-ui

    45KGitSquared/edex-ui · JavaScript

    eDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor styled like a sci-fi computer interface, heavily inspired by TRON: Legacy's Board Room scene. It combines a real terminal with live CPU/RAM/network monitoring and touchscreen support.

  31. 34

    desktop

    45Kzen-browser/desktop · C++

    Zen is a desktop web browser built on top of Firefox, focused on making you more productive — its tagline is 'Welcome to a calmer internet'.

  32. 35

    meteor

    44.8Kmeteor/meteor · JavaScript

    Meteor is a full-stack JavaScript platform for building modern web, mobile, and desktop applications with a single codebase.

  33. 36

    lossless-cut

    44.7Kmifi/lossless-cut · TypeScript

    LosslessCut is a cross-platform FFmpeg GUI for extremely fast, lossless cutting, trimming, merging and remuxing of video and audio files without re-encoding.

  34. 37

    puter

    43.8KHeyPuter/puter · TypeScript

    Puter is an open-source, self-hostable 'internet computer' — a web-based desktop environment that bundles everyday apps, cloud storage, and a developer platform (AI, database, serverless workers) accessible from any browser.

  35. 38

    openhuman

    42.1Ktinyhumansai/openhuman · Rust

    OpenHuman is a local-first personal AI system that combines a persistent memory of your data, an orchestrator that runs agent fleets on durable graphs, and a deep researcher that sweeps your files and the web for you. It is written in Rust and ships as a desktop app.

  36. 39

    nw.js

    41.1Knwjs/nw.js · JavaScript

    NW.js is an app runtime based on Chromium and Node.js that lets you write native desktop apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, calling Node.js modules directly from the DOM.

  37. 40

    qBittorrent

    40.9Kqbittorrent/qBittorrent · C++

    qBittorrent is a free, open-source BitTorrent client written in C++ with Qt, built on top of the libtorrent engine. It aims to be a solid alternative to other torrent clients, focusing on speed, stability, and Unicode support.

  38. 41

    project-nomad

    40.5KCrosstalk-Solutions/project-nomad · TypeScript

    Project NOMAD is a self-contained, offline-first knowledge and education server: offline Wikipedia, thousands of books, Khan Academy courses, offline maps and optional local AI, all running on hardware you own with no internet required.

  39. 42

    aseprite

    40.2Kaseprite/aseprite · C++

    Aseprite is a program for creating animated sprites and pixel art, with dedicated tools for layers, frames, color modes, and frame-by-frame animation.

  40. 43

    video.js

    40Kvideojs/video.js · TypeScript

    Video.js is a free, open source video player for all web-based platforms: a full-featured HTML5 player that also works as a framework (v10) for building players in HTML and React.

  41. 44

    dioxus

    39.4KDioxusLabs/dioxus · Rust

    Dioxus is a Rust framework for building apps with one codebase that run on web, desktop, mobile, and server.

  42. 45

    UI-TARS-desktop

    39.3Kbytedance/UI-TARS-desktop · TypeScript

    TARS is an open-source multimodal AI agent stack from ByteDance that ships two projects: Agent TARS, a CLI/Web UI agent for terminal, browser and tool-use tasks, and UI-TARS Desktop, a native app that lets a vision-language model see your screen and control mouse/keyboard.

  43. 46

    spacedrive

    39.2Kspacedriveapp/spacedrive · Rust

    Spacedrive is a cross-platform file explorer and a cross-device data platform. It indexes files, emails, notes, and other sources, lets you search everything in one place, and syncs data across devices via peer-to-peer connections.

  44. 47

    RevokeMsgPatcher

    39Khuiyadanli/RevokeMsgPatcher · C#

    A patcher for the Windows desktop versions of WeChat, QQ, and TIM that disables the 'message revoked' notification, so recalled/deleted messages stay visible to you.

  45. 48

    lapce

    38.9Klapce/lapce · Rust

    Lapce is a fast code editor written in pure Rust, with a UI built in Floem, built-in LSP support, modal (Vim-like) editing, remote development, and a terminal.

  46. 49

    Hyprland

    38.9Khyprwm/Hyprland · C++

    Hyprland is an independent, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor for Linux that focuses on both usability and visual polish, with gradient borders, blur, animations, shadows and glow built in.

  47. 50

    prompt-optimizer

    38.4Klinshenkx/prompt-optimizer · TypeScript

    Prompt Optimizer is an AI tool that helps you write better prompts and get better results from AI models, available as a web app, desktop app, Chrome extension, and Docker deployment.

  48. 51

    rufus

    38Kpbatard/rufus · C

    Rufus is a free utility for Windows that formats and creates bootable USB flash drives, used to make installers for Windows, Linux, FreeDOS and other bootable ISOs.

  49. 52

    khoj

    37.7Kkhoj-ai/khoj · Python

    Khoj is an open-source personal AI — a 'second brain' that answers your questions from the web and your own documents, runs custom agents for you, and works with any online or local LLM.

  50. 53

    claude-code-router

    37.7Kmusistudio/claude-code-router · TypeScript

    Claude Code Router (CCR) is a local model gateway and control plane for coding agents: your agents get one stable local endpoint while you manage providers, models, routing rules, and tools from one app.

  51. 54

    mpv

    37.4Kmpv-player/mpv · C

    mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.

  52. 55

    mediapipe

    37.3Kgoogle-ai-edge/mediapipe · C++

    Google's open-source, cross-platform toolkit for on-device machine learning in live and streaming media: ready-made libraries and pre-trained models you plug straight into your own app.

  53. 56

    nativefier

    35.2Knativefier/nativefier · TypeScript

    Nativefier is a command-line tool that wraps any website into a native-looking desktop app, so sites like WhatsApp Web or Gmail get their own icon, window, and taskbar entry instead of living in a browser tab.

  54. 57

    AnotherRedisDesktopManager

    34.8Kqishibo/AnotherRedisDesktopManager · JavaScript

    Another Redis Desktop Manager (AnotherRedisDesktopManager/ARDM) is a GUI desktop client for managing and browsing Redis databases, built to be faster and more stable than other Redis GUI tools, especially with huge key sets.

  55. 58

    ExplorerPatcher

    34.1Kvalinet/ExplorerPatcher · C

    ExplorerPatcher is a Windows customization tool that restores and tweaks the classic Windows 10-style interface (taskbar, Start menu, Alt+Tab window switcher) on newer Windows versions like Windows 11.

  56. 59

    BetterDisplay

    34.1Kwaydabber/BetterDisplay

    BetterDisplay is a macOS menu bar app that unlocks extra display controls on your Mac, including flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR brightness boosts, DDC and HDMI-CEC hardware control, virtual screens, and picture-in-picture streaming.

  57. 60

    vscodium

    33.7KVSCodium/vscodium · Shell

    VSCodium is freely-licensed binaries of Visual Studio Code: automated build scripts turn Microsoft's own vscode repository into MIT-licensed builds with telemetry disabled and no Microsoft branding.

  58. 61

    AionUi

    33.6KiOfficeAI/AionUi · TypeScript

    AionUi is a free, open-source Cowork app for AI agents: they work alongside you on your computer — reading files, writing code, browsing the web, automating tasks 24/7 — while you see everything they do and stay in control.

  59. 62

    easyexcel

    33.6Kalibaba/easyexcel · Java

    EasyExcel is a Java library from Alibaba for reading and writing Excel files with very low memory usage, solving the out-of-memory problems that plague Apache POI and JXL on large files.

  60. 63

    Proton

    33.1KValveSoftware/Proton · C++

    Proton is a compatibility tool for the Steam client that lets games exclusive to Windows run on Linux. It is based on Wine plus additional components.

  61. 64

    FinceptTerminal

    32.6KFincept-Corporation/FinceptTerminal · C++

    Fincept Terminal is a free, open-source desktop finance terminal in the spirit of a Bloomberg terminal: institutional-grade market analytics, AI research agents and trading tools combined in one application.

  62. 65

    QtScrcpy

    32.5Kbarry-ran/QtScrcpy · C++

    QtScrcpy is a desktop app that displays and controls your Android phone's screen on your computer in real time, over USB or WiFi, without needing root access.

  63. 66

    DevToys

    32.1KDevToys-app/DevToys · C#

    DevToys is a desktop app that bundles 30+ small developer utilities (converters, encoders, formatters, generators, graphics tools, testers, text utilities) into one offline Swiss-Army-knife tool, so you don't need to use random untrustworthy websites for quick tasks.

  64. 67

    iced

    31.8Kiced-rs/iced · Rust

    Iced is a cross-platform GUI library for Rust, focused on simplicity and type-safety and inspired by the Elm architecture.

  65. 68

    Avalonia

    31.7KAvaloniaUI/Avalonia · C#

    Avalonia is a cross-platform UI framework for .NET: you write apps in C# and XAML, and they run on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android and WebAssembly.

  66. 69

    egui

    31.5Kemilk/egui · Rust

    egui (pronounced 'e-gooey') is a simple, fast and highly portable immediate mode GUI library written in pure Rust. It runs on the web, natively on desktop, and inside game engines.

  67. 70

    mcp-for-blender

    31.4Kahujasid/mcp-for-blender · Python

    A community integration that connects Blender to any LLM through the Model Context Protocol, letting an AI assistant do prompt-assisted 3D modeling, scene creation and manipulation. It is third-party and not affiliated with the Blender Foundation.

  68. 71

    dsh-desktop

    31.3Kanywhere-labs/dsh-desktop · TypeScript

    A free, open-source Windows and macOS desktop client for DeepSeek Harness (DSH): the Harness's local Web UI, Host service and plugin system wrapped into one native app. Everything — even the desktop shell itself — is a plugin.

  69. 72

    flameshot

    31.2Kflameshot-org/flameshot · C++

    Flameshot is a free, open-source screenshot tool: capture a screen region, annotate it in a built-in editor, then save it, copy it or share it online.

  70. 73

    calculator

    31.1Kmicrosoft/calculator · C#

    The official Windows Calculator that ships pre-installed with Windows, open-sourced by Microsoft — a modern Windows app written in C++ and C#, updated regularly with new features via the Microsoft Store.

  71. 74

    facefusion

    30.3Kfacefusion/facefusion · Python

    FaceFusion is an industry leading face manipulation platform - AI software for swapping faces and syncing lips in media, which you download and run on your own machine rather than use as a web service.

  72. 75

    Rectangle

    30.1Krxhanson/Rectangle · Swift

    Rectangle is a window management app for macOS that lets you move and resize windows using keyboard shortcuts and screen-edge snap areas.

  73. 76

    sim

    29.8Ksimstudioai/sim · TypeScript

    Sim is a collaborative workspace for building, deploying, and monitoring AI agents and workflows, used by 100,000+ builders. Agents can be built visually, in chat, or with code.

  74. 77

    deskflow

    29.8Kdeskflow/deskflow · C++

    A free, open-source app that lets the keyboard, mouse, or trackpad of one computer control several nearby computers, moving seamlessly between them — like a software KVM but without the video.

  75. 78

    yabai

    29.7Kasmvik/yabai · C

    Yabai is a tiling window manager for macOS that extends the system's built-in window manager, arranging windows automatically using a binary space partitioning algorithm.

  76. 79

    actual

    29.6Kactualbudget/actual · TypeScript

    Actual Budget is a local-first personal finance app built around envelope budgeting. It is 100% free and open-source, written in NodeJS, and syncs your changes between devices.

  77. 80

    Mindustry

    29.4KAnuken/Mindustry · Java

    Mindustry is an automation tower defense RTS written in Java — a game that combines factory-building with tower-defense combat.

  78. 81

    fyne

    28.8Kfyne-io/fyne · Go

    Fyne is an easy-to-use UI toolkit and app API written in Go, inspired by Material Design. It is designed to build applications that run on desktop and mobile devices from a single codebase.

  79. 82

    qwen-code

    28.5KQwenLM/qwen-code · TypeScript

    An open-source AI coding agent that lives in your terminal — it edits code and runs commands in your project, powered by Qwen, OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini APIs, or local models via Ollama and vLLM.

  80. 83

    niri

    28.5Kniri-wm/niri · Rust

    niri is a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor for Linux, written in Rust on top of Smithay. Its signature idea: windows sit in columns on an infinite strip that scrolls to the right.

  81. 84

    Chat2DB

    28.3KOtterMind/Chat2DB · Java

    Chat2DB is a free, cross-platform, local-first database client and SQL workspace for developers, DBAs, analysts, and data teams. It combines a full SQL client with an AI assistant that you plug your own model into.

  82. 85

    ScreenToGif

    27.8KNickeManarin/ScreenToGif · C#

    ScreenToGif is a Windows desktop tool that records a selected area of your screen, your webcam, or a sketchboard, then lets you edit the capture and export it as a GIF, APNG, video, PSD, or PNG.

  83. 86

    kilocode

    27.6KKilo-Org/kilocode · TypeScript

    Kilo Code is an open source AI coding agent that works inside VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, or directly from the CLI, helping you write, debug, and ship code with AI.

  84. 87

    awesome-electron

    27.3Ksindresorhus/awesome-electron

    A curated list of useful resources for creating apps with Electron — the open-source framework that builds desktop apps using web technologies, combining the Chromium rendering engine with the Node.js runtime.

  85. 88

    clash-party

    26.9Kmihomo-party-org/clash-party · TypeScript

    Clash Party is a free, open-source desktop GUI for the Mihomo (Clash Meta) proxy core, built with Electron. It lets you manage proxy configs, subscriptions and node switching visually instead of hand-editing YAML.

  86. 89

    libgdx

    25.4Klibgdx/libgdx · Java

    libGDX is a cross-platform Java game development framework built on OpenGL (ES): one codebase targets Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, and web browsers.

  87. 90

    QuickLook

    25.4KQL-Win/QuickLook · C#

    QuickLook brings macOS's 'Quick Look' feature to Windows: select any file in File Explorer, press Space, and get an instant preview without opening a full application.

  88. 91

    PhotoSwipe

    25.3Kdimsemenov/PhotoSwipe · JavaScript

    PhotoSwipe is a JavaScript image gallery and lightbox for mobile and desktop — modular, framework-independent code you add to your own web pages.

  89. 92

    letta

    25.2Kletta-ai/letta

    Letta is a platform for building stateful AI agents with advanced memory that lets them learn and improve over time; it's the actively developed successor to MemGPT.

  90. 93

    chromium

    25.1Kchromium/chromium

    The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source code — the open-source browser project that aims to make the web safer, faster and more stable for all users.

  91. 94

    sqlitebrowser

    24.7Ksqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser · C++

    DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) is a visual, open-source tool for creating, designing, and editing SQLite database files, using a spreadsheet-like interface instead of raw SQL commands.

  92. 95

    HandBrake

    24.7KHandBrake/HandBrake · C

    HandBrake is an open-source video transcoder: it takes videos you already have and makes new ones that play on phones, tablets, TV media players, game consoles, computers, and web browsers.

  93. 96

    proxyee-down

    24.6Kproxyee-down-org/proxyee-down · Java

    Proxyee Down is an open-source, free HTTP downloader built on an HTTP proxy layer, offering multi-connection chunked downloads and support for custom HTTP requests, with an extension system for special download needs.

  94. 97

    slint

    24.2Kslint-ui/slint · Rust

    Slint is an open-source declarative GUI toolkit for building native user interfaces that run on embedded systems, desktops, mobile, and the web, with business logic written in Rust, C++, JavaScript, or Python.

  95. 98

    BongoCat

    24Kayangweb/BongoCat · Rust

    BongoCat is a cross-platform desktop pet: a cat that sits on your screen and reacts in real time to your keyboard, mouse, and gamepad input. It's free, open source, and built with Tauri.

  96. 99

    brave-browser

    23.9Kbrave/brave-browser

    This is the companion repo Brave Software uses to track issues, publish releases, and host the wiki for Brave Browser, a Chromium-based browser available on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. It is not the browser's source code repository.

  97. 100

    OpenLogi

    23.7KAprilNEA/OpenLogi · Rust

    OpenLogi is a native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+ written in Rust: it unlocks Logitech mice, keyboards, and webcams over HID++ and UVC, with no account and no telemetry.

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