Open-source desktop-applications software

1730 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged desktop-applications, ranked by how closely desktop-applications is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.

1730 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.

Product	Health v2	Stars	Maturity
lilipads/gradient_descent_viz A cross-platform C++/Qt desktop application that interactively visualizes five popular gradient descent optimization methods (vanilla GD, m…	32	1419	maintenance
HuberTRoy/MusicBox A cross-platform desktop music player built with Python and PyQt5 that aggregates multiple Chinese music services (NetEase Cloud Music, Xia…	32	1349	maintenance
ItsPi3141/alpaca-electron Alpaca Electron is an Electron desktop app that provides a simple ChatGPT-style UI for chatting with Alpaca and other LLaMA-based local LLM…	21	1302	maintenance
Red Programming Language Red is a next-generation programming language inspired by Rebol, shipping as a single ~1MB zero-install executable containing a full toolch…	66	6041	experimental
oguzhaninan/Buka Buka is a desktop ebook management application with a clean, straightforward interface for organizing and reading ebooks. It currently supp…	23	1117	maintenance
Nilhcem/FakeSMTP FakeSMTP is a free, cross-platform dummy SMTP server with a graphical interface, written in Java, that intercepts emails sent by applicatio…	10	1008	maintenance
lencx/nofwl NoFWL is a cross-platform desktop application for accessing ChatGPT, built with Tauri and Rust. It wraps the ChatGPT experience in a native…	22	4127	experimental
Priler/jarvis JARVIS is an offline, privacy-respecting voice assistant built in Rust with Tauri, using neural networks for speech-to-text, text-to-speech…	50	2952	experimental
the-ora/browser Ora is an open-source, native macOS web browser built with Swift, SwiftUI, and WebKit, positioned as an Arc alternative with tab management…	74	2233	experimental
RibirX/Ribir Ribir is a non-intrusive, declarative GUI framework for Rust that builds multi-platform applications (desktop, mobile, web/WASM) from a sin…	72	1733	experimental
lorryjovens-hub/claude-code-rust A Tauri 2.0 desktop application (Rust backend, React 19 frontend) that wraps multiple LLM providers like Anthropic, OpenAI, and DeepSeek in…	49	1662	experimental
compose-miuix-ui/miuix Miuix is a UI component library for Compose Multiplatform that implements the Xiaomi HyperOS design language. It provides basic and complex…	89	1381	experimental
ZY Player ZY-Player is a cross-platform desktop video resource player built with Electron and Vue. It aggregates online video sources with a clean, a…	23	14508	abandoned
Cider Cider 1 is the archived source code for a cross-platform Apple Music client built with Electron, Vue.js 2, and Webpack. It offered a custom…	10	7128	abandoned
Rambox Rambox Community Edition is a free, open-source, cross-platform desktop app that combines common web messaging and email services (WhatsApp…	10	6380	abandoned
qingshuisiyuan/electron-ssr-backup A backup of the discontinued electron-ssr project, a cross-platform ShadowsocksR proxy client desktop app built with Electron for Windows, …	10	5796	abandoned
benoitvallon/react-native-nw-react-calculator A calculator application demonstrating how to architect a single JavaScript codebase that runs as iOS/Android apps (React Native), desktop …	32	5203	abandoned
Buttercup Password Manager Buttercup Desktop is a free, open-source, cross-platform password manager built with Electron and TypeScript that stores credentials in enc…	10	4387	abandoned
JadenGeller/Helium Helium is a macOS application that provides a floating browser window that stays on top of other windows, letting users watch media or brow…	10	3585	abandoned
Thomas101/wmail WMail is a free, open-source Electron-based desktop client for Gmail and Google Inbox, supporting multiple accounts, desktop notifications,…	10	2045	abandoned
will-stone/browserosaurus Browserosaurus is an open-source macOS browser prompter that registers itself as the default browser and shows a picker menu of installed b…	10	2011	abandoned
electron/electronjs.org-old The source code for an old version of the Electron project's website (electronjs.org), built with Handlebars templates. It has been superse…	10	1743	abandoned
SpiderOak/Encryptr Encryptr is a zero-knowledge, cloud-based password manager and e-wallet built on the Crypton framework by SpiderOak. It stores passwords, c…	23	1559	abandoned
Code52/DownmarkerWPF MarkPad (formerly DownmarkerWPF) is a visual Markdown editor for Windows built with WPF, featuring real-time side-by-side preview, spellche…	32	1443	abandoned
MiningCattiva/x-spider X-Spider is a desktop media downloader for X (Twitter) that fetches images and videos from accounts. It supports media filters, configurabl…	10	1256	abandoned
akshaykmr/hogwatch Hogwatch is a bandwidth monitor that shows per-process network transfer using nethogs data plotted in a web-based GUI. It is a Python 2.7 a…	32	1218	abandoned
SchizoDuckie/DuckieTV DuckieTV is a standalone desktop application for TV show addicts that provides a personalized TV-show calendar with integrated, blocking-re…	83	1190	abandoned
EragonJ/Kaku Kaku is an open-source desktop music player that aggregates streaming from online platforms like YouTube, SoundCloud, and Vimeo. It is buil…	23	1084	abandoned
ZoneMinder/zmNinja zmNinja is a cross-platform ZoneMinder client app for monitoring CCTV/NVR cameras on mobile and desktop, built with Ionic and AngularJS. It…	10	1076	abandoned
Alchemy Alchemy is an open-source desktop file converter built on Electron and React that lives in the menu bar on macOS and Windows. It offers a d…	23	1000	abandoned