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Desktop-application projects on GitHub

Cross-platform desktop application frameworks and app collections.

As of , the most-starred Desktop-application projects on GitHub are awesome-mac (116.3K stars), wails (36.6K stars) and nativefier (35.2K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 14 Desktop-application repositories with 338.7K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was gpui-kit, with +161 stars in a day.

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338.7KStars in total
+298Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+161

gpui-kit

longbridge/gpui-kit · ★ 17.9K

GPUI Kit is a Rust framework for building cross-platform desktop apps on top of GPUI (Zed Industries' UI engine), combining a styled component library, a headless behavior layer, and an extension layer that opens the app to JavaScript.

+84

awesome-mac

jaywcjlove/awesome-mac · ★ 116.3K

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.

+20

Seelen-UI

eythaann/Seelen-UI · ★ 18.1K

Seelen UI is a full desktop environment replacement for Windows 10/11 that lets you rebuild the taskbar, dock, app launcher, window manager, flyouts, and virtual desktops instead of just skinning them.

+12

FileConverter

Tichau/FileConverter · ★ 15.4K

File Converter is a Windows tool that lets you convert and compress files directly from the right-click context menu in Windows Explorer, without opening a separate app.

The all-time top

14 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · jaywcjlove/awesome-mac

    awesome-mac

    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.

    116.3K
  2. #2 · wailsapp/wails

    wails

    Wails is a framework for building desktop apps with Go: it wraps your Go backend and a web frontend into a single binary, with tooling for creating, compiling and bundling the project.

    36.6K
  3. #3 · nativefier/nativefier

    nativefier

    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.

    35.2K
  1. 4

    brackets

    33Kadobe/brackets · JavaScript

    An open-source code editor for web development, focused on HTML, CSS and JavaScript, itself written in those same web technologies and originally built by Adobe.

  2. 5

    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.

  3. 6

    ContextMenuManager

    20.3KBluePointLilac/ContextMenuManager · C#

    ContextMenuManager is a Windows tool that lets you enable, disable, and customize right-click context menu items for files, folders, new-item menus, send-to, open-with, custom file formats, IE, and WinX menus.

  4. 7

    Seelen-UI

    18.1Keythaann/Seelen-UI · Rust

    Seelen UI is a full desktop environment replacement for Windows 10/11 that lets you rebuild the taskbar, dock, app launcher, window manager, flyouts, and virtual desktops instead of just skinning them.

  5. 8

    gpui-kit

    17.9Klongbridge/gpui-kit · Rust

    GPUI Kit is a Rust framework for building cross-platform desktop apps on top of GPUI (Zed Industries' UI engine), combining a styled component library, a headless behavior layer, and an extension layer that opens the app to JavaScript.

  6. 9

    FileConverter

    15.4KTichau/FileConverter · C#

    File Converter is a Windows tool that lets you convert and compress files directly from the right-click context menu in Windows Explorer, without opening a separate app.

  7. 10

    zeal

    12.8Kzealdocs/zeal · C++

    Zeal is an offline documentation browser that acts as your personal reference library, letting you search programming docs instantly without an internet connection.

  8. 11

    gtkx

    487gtkx-org/gtkx · TypeScript

    GTKX is a framework for building native Linux desktop apps with React and TypeScript, rendering real Adwaita and GTK4 widgets instead of a browser-based UI.

  9. 12

    NeuroMorph-Assessment

    251ruoyuw22-byte/NeuroMorph-Assessment · Python

    NeuroMorph Assessment (NMA) is an automated structural MRI morphometry system that integrates CAT12 processing, brain tissue quantification, visualization, and automated report generation into one workflow.

  10. 13

    dsh-launcher

    199Ruler4396/dsh-launcher · C#

    It is a lightweight native Windows launcher shell for DeepSeek Harness (dsh): double-click to start the dsh service instead of typing commands, with optional auto-start on boot.

  11. 14

    openframe-saas-desktop

    156flamingo-stack/openframe-saas-desktop · Rust

    OpenFrame Console is a Tauri 2 desktop shell for the OpenFrame SaaS platform. It wraps the openframe-oss-frontend static web export and adds OS-level features a browser tab can't do, like tray notifications, persistent sessions, and system-browser OAuth sign-in.

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