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Top 23 desktop-app Open-Source Projects
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cc-switch
A cross-platform desktop All-in-One assistant for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Grok Build & Hermes Agent. Only official website: ccswitch.io
Project mention: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-22 -
AppSignal
Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.
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awesome-mac
This project is dedicated to collecting high-quality macOS software and organizing them systematically by different categories for easy search and use.
Project mention: Awesome-mac: The GitHub Repo I Bookmark for Every Mac Setup (99.8K Stars) | dev.to | 2026-03-10Then you find awesome-mac — a GitHub repository with 99,800 stars, maintained by 460 developers, updated constantly, and every single app cross-checked by the community via pull requests.
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Project mention: Show HN: Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Tauri | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-31
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Project mention: ChatGPT VS BotVa - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/ChatGPT | 2026-03-23
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responsively-app
A modified web browser that helps in responsive web development. A web developer's must have dev-tool.
Project mention: Improving Responsively App Documentation – Week 2 of Hacktoberfest | dev.to | 2025-10-19For my second Hacktoberfest contribution, I worked on improving the documentation for Responsively App, an open-source desktop browser that helps developers preview responsive websites in real time. The README was missing some setup instructions and quick-start steps, so I decided to make it easier for new users and contributors.
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Kargo
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ChatALL
Concurrently chat with ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Bard, Alpaca, Vicuna, Claude, ChatGLM, MOSS, 讯飞星火, 文心一言 and more, discover the best answers
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open-design
🎨 Local-first, open-source alternative to Anthropic's Claude Design. ⚡ 19 Skills · ✨ 71 brand-grade Design Systems 🖼 Generate web · desktop · mobile prototypes · slides · images · videos · HyperFrames 📦 Sandboxed preview · HTML/PDF/PPTX/MP4 export 🤖 Runs on Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / Gemini / OpenCode / Qwen / Copilot / Hermes / Kimi CLI.
Project mention: Open Design 0.22.0 – Introducing OpenDesign Arena | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-09-10 -
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omniget
Download Udemy and Hotmart courses, YouTube videos, music and books — 1,800+ sites, no terminal. Free open-source desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux, with a built-in course player, PDF/EPUB reader and music library. Powered by yt-dlp. Your files stay on your computer.
Project mention: Open source desktop app for studying online courses | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-03 -
rubick
🔧 Electron based open source toolbox, free integration of rich plug-ins. 基于 electron 的开源工具箱，自由集成丰富插件。
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modly
Desktop app to generate 3D models from images or prompt using local AI — runs entirely on your GPU
Project mention: Modly: Drop a photo, get a 3D mesh, open source and runs on your GPU | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-26skip all the adds (christ almoghty what a shit site. fucking hell.)
https://github.com/lightningpixel/modly
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I'm also using Reqable, for those interested check it out: https://reqable.com
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soundnode-app
Soundnode App is the Soundcloud for desktop. Built with Electron, Angular.js and Soundcloud API.
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Project mention: We've raised $10M to build open source AI security | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-02
Hey, Ildar here, CTO at Archestra
Archestra is an open-source AI gateway and MCP orchestrator. It runs MCP servers in sandboxed environments, applies deterministic context-aware policy at the tool-call level, and handles the auth, audit, cost tracking, and observability, so an in-house AI team can let business users connect to real internal data. Now we are raising next round to expand.
We’re strong believers that there should be an independent, battle-tested, cloud-native, open-source platform that's free from big players and takes care of all that boring stuff. Something like GitLab, Grafana, or Clickhouse.
Repo is here: https://github.com/archestra-ai/archestra Matvey (CEO), Joey (Co-founder), and I are all in the thread. Ask us anything, including the unflattering stuff.
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Project mention: Zen-desktop: Desktop ad-blocker for Windows, macOS and Linux | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-24
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fastpotify
Spotify, native and fast. One lightweight Rust app for your whole library, local playback, and Spotify Connect on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Project mention: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-09-04 -
Google-Assistant-Unofficial-Desktop-Client
A cross-platform unofficial Google Assistant Client for Desktop (powered by Google Assistant SDK)
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source desktop-app projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | cc-switch | 131,963 |
| 2 | awesome-mac | 113,471 |
| 3 | tauri | 110,952 |
| 4 | ChatGPT | 54,462 |
| 5 | pear-desktop | 33,447 |
| 6 | DevToys | 31,993 |
| 7 | responsively-app | 25,165 |
| 8 | ChatALL | 16,494 |
| 9 | open-design | 13,746 |
| 10 | reactide | 10,502 |
| 11 | omniget | 10,310 |
| 12 | rubick | 10,021 |
| 13 | BingGPT | 8,925 |
| 14 | modly | 7,510 |
| 15 | EcoPaste | 7,387 |
| 16 | reqable-app | 6,727 |
| 17 | winbox | 6,443 |
| 18 | angular-electron | 5,721 |
| 19 | soundnode-app | 5,272 |
| 20 | archestra | 4,268 |
| 21 | zen-desktop | 4,224 |
| 22 | fastpotify | 3,805 |
| 23 | Google-Assistant-Unofficial-Desktop-Client | 3,630 |
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