Electron VS Signal-Desktop

Compare Electron vs Signal-Desktop and see what are their differences.

Electron

:electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS (by electron)

Signal-Desktop

A private messenger for Windows, macOS, and Linux. (by signalapp)
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Electron Signal-Desktop
236 322
111,866 13,985
1.1% 0.6%
9.8 9.9
1 day ago 17 days ago
C++ TypeScript
MIT License GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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Electron

Posts with mentions or reviews of Electron. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-29.

Signal-Desktop

Posts with mentions or reviews of Signal-Desktop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Electron and Signal-Desktop you can also consider the following projects:

tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.

signal-cli - signal-cli provides an unofficial commandline, JSON-RPC and dbus interface for the Signal messenger.

dotenv - Loads environment variables from .env for nodejs projects.

axolotl - A Signal compatible cross plattform client written in Go, Rust and Vuejs

Eel - A little Python library for making simple Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps

session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger

puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome

AppImageLauncher - Helper application for Linux distributions serving as a kind of "entry point" for running and integrating AppImages

react-native - A framework for building native applications using React

webclient - Angular webclient (with Linux, macOS and Windows desktop clients) for CTemplar's encrypted email service.

cheerio - The fast, flexible, and elegant library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML.

telegram-bot-api - Telegram Bot API server