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ToDesktop Builder — Web app to desktop app in minutes
🔧 Take your web app codebase and transform it into a cross-platform desktop app with native functionality.
🖱️ With our drag-and-drop UI, you can easily customize your app's design. Code is optional.
🚀 One-click publish your desktop app to your customers.
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solves so many of the gnarly steps I had to go through to go from web-app to native app! My next app I’ll be using it, congrats Dave! @rickpastoor @trafnar @thekitze @linuz90 @peer_rich @brian_lovin @davej
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Can I use this to build a site-specific wrapper for other web apps that I use? (i.e. I don't own those websites, but want to access them via my Mac dock).
@chrismessina Hey Chris, great question. We're not targeting this use case but you can do that for absolutely free if you want to. It's a bit of a hack so let me explain how:
1. Download ToDesktop Builder from our website.
2. Create an app using ToDesktop Builder. You probably want a "Simple Window" app.
3. Customise it if you would like to customise it.
4. Hit the run button
5. When the app is running then right-click on the dock icon. Choose "Options" → "Show in Finder"
6. You can now drag that application into your Applications directory and treat it like a normal app.
Note: If you send this app to a friend or another computer then it won't work because the app hasn't been signed or notarized. If you want to distribute the app then you'll have to press the "Release" button on ToDesktop Builder and you would need to pay for this service.
@morajabi Ah, a connoisseur of the classic Electron brew! With ToDesktop Builder we've distilled it down to a fine essence - like switching from a good old cup of joe to a potent espresso shot! All the power, none of the grind.
We're big fans! Love ToDesktop at Campsite — the tool is dead simple, easy to spin up, easy to customize, and the team's customer support has been outstanding the entire time we've been using the tool.
looks great! Is there any tools that can do things vice versa? like turning desktop app to web app, lol
I would like to try building our web app to desktop, but I am a bit concerned how will links be handled. Does ToDesktop Builder provide integration with the OS to handle links to old web app to open in the desktop app instead of the browser?
Congrats on the launch! Has been a huge help with pushing a great experience with Basedash. Having a desktop app on Windows and Mac would have been out of reach for the capacity of our team, but with Todesktop, it's barely any additional effort on our end to maintain. The team is also fast to ship updates and responsive when we have questions, like with launching external windows for more complicated auth flows.
I wish every web app would use this.
@tomjohndesign Thank you, Tom. Awesome to have you as a customer. The new Basedash website is stunning btw, great job!
huge congrats on the launch! I've been using ToDesktop Builder for quite some time and it's really brilliant – makes desktop app creation a breeze, and incredibly fast – you can run and test your app almost immediately. love seeing how far TD's come!
@johnny_makes Thank you Johnny. So proud to have Fabric as a customer. High-five from across the internet 🙌
I avoided building a desktop app for Conjure for months, then built one within a single day with ToDesktop Builder, and my users love it. I use it daily over the Web version of Conjure.
I avoided building a desktop app because I was worried about managing it as a solo developer, but ToDesktop has removed all that overhead, and having a desktop app is now a driving factor for many of my daily users.
ToDesktop's API is incredibly nice and thoughtful, which made integrating Conjure's habit and time tracking through the menu bar, native notifications, and multiple windows a breeze.
ToDesktop Builder is next level in its configurability of the desktop app, icons, menu bar, menu tray, and more. The deployment and distribution workflow is just one click. It's honestly upsetting how straightforward everything is.
I seriously can't recommend ToDesktop enough. The team is super helpful, and they make it very easy and quick for you to build an excellent desktop experience.
Myself and my users over at https://conjure.so are very thankful for ToDesktop and @davej 😊
@whelton Ah man, thanks so much for the rave review James. 😊
You traded desktop app procrastination for a lifetime of user admiration. That's what we're all about!
Anybody else reading this? If so, check out Conjure, it is the absolute best way to develop good habits and achieve your goals.
Unfortunately for my team, we can't get any use from ToDesktop Builder as our app is already built and ready for deployment. However, it does seem like an enticing tool that could simplify the application deployment process for others, and perhaps myself for future builds.
Nice launch, and looks like a solid product!
I love it, I've seen more and more of my tools swap to ToDesktop and it makes me want to give it a try once I've got something ready! Keep up the awesome work and I look forward to working with your product soon 👀
@lxunos Whoop! We're taking over the dock! Would be delighted to have you, Lucas. Ping me if you have any questions. 🙌
Epic Product
Love how it removes all the "Electron" headache and gives super powerful APIs/plugins for native features!
ToDesktop powers most of my favorite tools. Happy to be both a user as a dev, and user as end-customer.
Congrats @davej
@omarmcpizza Thanks Omar, super glad for your help along the way. We've turned the 'Electron' headache into a ToDesktop head-rush, love it! Less hassle more sparkle ✨!
I'm a big fan, I was dreading creating my desktop app and this solved all the headaches. I used it to launch two desktop apps, ReadyRunner.ai and TaskTXT.com.
@trafnar Your feedback has been absolutely invaluable Nathan, thank you. @ everyone else: check out Nathan's apps, the attention to detail and care that goes into his apps are remarkable.
Desktop app to be able to run stuff yourself quickly is such a cool improvement to an already great product. Fair play @davej!
@davecalnan Thanks for the kind words Dave! Took a while to get here but really proud of this.
Congrats on the launch @davej You've just made an awesome product even better 🚀
For anyone building an electron app, this is a no-brainer!
@mkeftz You were literally our very first customer Michael. Thanks for all your help. 🙏
Hi Dave, congrats on your launch. This is AWESOME! I'm really excited about native plugins. Can't wait to see what is coming in the future 🎉
@patrick_corrigan2 Afterplay would make a really great desktop app. Could do some nifty features like picture-picture. Play Pokemon while you reply to your email!
ToDesktop Builder is a developer's dream come true. With its user-friendly interface, extensive customization options, multi-platform support, and advanced features, it has become an indispensable tool in my toolkit. It deserves a solid 5-star rating for empowering developers like me to create stunning desktop apps.
@davej, This seems unreal! Great product and Congrats on the launch!
Quick question - Is this limited to macOS?
I’ve been a todesktop customer for over 2 years. I use it to provide maintainance-free Linux, windows, and mac clients for @kinopioclub . Congrats on the release, looking forward to trying this out!
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