Apps

App Launcher

• Cerebro - Launcher with inline previews.
• Zazu - Launcher.
• Hain - Launcher for Windows.
• Dext - Launcher.

Browser

• Beaker - Browser with peer-to-peer web protocols.
• Min - Minimal web browser.
• Wexond - Modern and feature-rich web browser base based on Electron.

Database Client

• Medis - Redis database management.
• Beekeeper Studio - Cross-platform SQL editor and database manager.
• Mongotron - MongoDB management tool.
• DBGlass - PostgreSQL client.
• PB for Desktop - Pushbullet client.
• LevelUI - LevelDB management.

Docker

• Eintopf - Manage development projects with Docker.
• docker-indicator - Unofficial Docker menubar app.
• Kitematic - Docker container management.

Download

• Motrix - Download manager.
• nuTorrent - BitTorrent client.
• WebTorrent - Streaming torrent client.

Efficient

• Pomotroid - Pomodoro timer.
• Pomodoro - Timer based on the Pomodoro Technique.
• VIR - Intelligent time manager with automatic planning.
• dida - Add tasks to TickTick (滴答清单).
• Ao - Unofficial Microsoft To-Do app.

Email

• nylas-mail - Nylas Mail was an open-source mail client built on the modern web with Electron, React, and Flux. It was designed to be easy to extend.
• Mailspring - Extensible email client. (Fork of Nylas Mail)
• Wmail - Unofficial Gmail & Google Inbox app.
• Rambox - Chat and email app that combines multiple services like Discord, Hangouts, Gmail and Outlook.
• ProtonMail Desktop - Unofficial ProtonMail app.
• Gmail Desktop - Unofficial Gmail app.

Git

• Git-it - Teaches you Git and GitHub.
• GReader - Collect and read offline readme files of GitHub repos.
• Gitify - GitHub notifications in your menubar.
• GReader - Collect and read offline readme files of GitHub repos.

Hardware stats

• SpaceRadar - Interactive disk space and memory visualization.
• iStats - CPU and memory stats on your menubar.

HTTP

• James - HTTP proxy to view and intercept browser requests.

IDE

• Visual Studio Code - Cross-platform IDE.
• Atom - Code editor.
• Light Table - Code editor with instant feedback.
• Graviton Editor - Cross-platform code editor.

Image

• Lightgallery - Image viewer.
• Imagemin - Minify images.
• ExifCleaner - Clean image metadata with drag and drop.
• SpaceEye - Live satellite imagery for your desktop background.
• Ansel - Image organizer.

Markdown

• Mark Text - Real-time preview Markdown editor.
• Boostnote - Markdown note & code snippet app for developers. Older Version: Latest:
• Abricotine - Markdown editor with inline preview.
• Vmd - Preview Markdown files.
• MarkRight - GitHub flavored Markdown editor with live preview.
• electron-markdownify - A minimal Markdown editor desktop app.
• Shiba - Live Markdown preview with linting.
• Marky - Markdown editor.
• Proton - Markdown editor with live preview.
• Markn - Lightweight Markdown viewer.

Messenger

• Electronic WeChat - Unofficial WeChat app.
• Caprine - Unofficial Facebook Messenger app.
• Franz - Skype, Slack, Hangouts, WhatsApp, Grape, Telegram, FB Messenger, Hipchat in the same app.
• Friends - P2P chat.
• Wire - Messenger and calling app.

Notepad

• Simplenote - Note keeper.
• Leanote - Cloud notepad.
• Noty - Auto-saving sticky note with support for multiple notes in a single window.
• Yana - Notebook app with rich-text notes, nested note organization and global search.
• Moonview - Ambient notepad.
• Notable - Markdown-based note-taking.
• Tusk - Unofficial Evernote app.

Password

• KeeWeb - Unofficial KeePass app.
• Buttercup Desktop - Password manager.
• Swifty - Password manager.
• Hawkpass - Password generator.

Screen Recorder/Sharing

• Kap - Screen recorder with GIF support.
• Snapper - Screen capturing & recording for Android devices.
• ScreenCat - Screen sharing & remote collaboration.

Terminal

• edex-ui - A cross-platform, customizable science fiction terminal emulator with advanced monitoring & touchscreen support.
• Extraterm - The swiss army chainsaw of terminal emulators.
• Hyper - A terminal built on web technologies.

Unofficial Apps

• YakYak - Unofficial Google Hangouts app.
• Ramme - Unofficial Instagram app.
• Mattermost - Mattermost client.
• WhatsDesktop - Unofficial WhatsApp app.
• Fog - Unofficial Overcast podcast app.
• GroupMe - Unofficial GroupMe app.
• DTCP - Twitter client.
• Active Collab - Unofficial Active Collab app.
• MediumDesk - Unofficial Medium app.
• MediumDesk - Unofficial Medium app.
• DevDocs - Unofficial DevDocs.io app.

Video/Music

• lx-music-desktop - A Music app based on electron.
• YesPlayMusic - A Netease Cloud Music App.
• lossless-cut - The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing.
• Google Play Music Desktop Player - Unofficial Google Play Music app.
• Nuclear - Streaming music player that finds free music for you.
• Cumulus - SoundCloud player in your menubar.
• Kaku - Kaku is a highly integrated music player supports different online platform like YouTube, SoundCloud, Vimeo and more. Available on Mac, Windows and Linux.
• Gokotta - Music player.
• PupaFM - DoubanFM music player.
• google-music-electron - Unofficial Google music app.
• VOX - Unofficial VOX music player.
• Toby - YouTube player.
• Kyoku - Displays current iTunes song.
• Yays - YouTube music player in your menubar.
• Tubehead - YouTube music player in your menubar.
• Museeks - Music player.
• Yoda - Browse and download YouTube videos.
• Tubehead - YouTube music player in your menubar.

Boilerplates

Tools

• electron-vue - An Electron & Vue.js quick start boilerplate with vue-cli scaffolding, common Vue plugins, electron-packager/electron-builder, unit/e2e testing, vue-devtools, and webpack.
• electron-quick-start - Clone the repo to try a simple app.
• angular-electron - Fast bootstrapping with Angular, Electron, TypeScript, SASS, and Hot Reload.
• electron-boilerplate - Comprehensive boilerplate which even generates installers.
• electron-typescript-react - An Electron boilerplate including TypeScript, React, Jest and ESLint.
• secure-electron-template - Security-focused boilerplate for creating apps with React, Redux, Webpack, and i18next.
• bozon - Scaffold, run, test, and package your app.
• generator-electron - Scaffold out an app boilerplate.
• electron-boilerplate - Boilerplate to kickstart creating an app.
• vite-electron-builder - Secure boilerplate for Electron app based on Vite. TypeScript + Vue/React/Angular/Svelte/Vanilla.
• electron-vite-template - A vue3 + Vite + electron project template.
• electron-react-boilerplate - Boilerplate based on React and webpack.

Framework

Tools

• electron-egg - A simple, cross platform, enterprise desktop software development framework.

Library

Auto Updater/Release Server

• electron-release-server - Self-hosted release server with front-end & auto-updater support.
• nuts - Releases/downloads server with auto-updater and GitHub as a backend.
• electron-dl - Simplified file downloads.
• electron-gh-release - Auto-update by releasing on GitHub.
• electron-download - Download the Electron release zip from GitHub.

Check/Detect

• electron-is-dev - Check if Electron is running in development.
• electron-is - An 'is' utility for Electron which provides a set of handy functions, with a self-descriptive name.
• is-electron - Detect if running in Electron.
• is-electron-renderer - Check if your code is running in main or renderer.
• electron-is-accelerator - Check if a string is a valid Electron accelerator.

Database

• RxDB - A client side, offline-first, reactive database for JavaScript Applications.
• realm-js - Realm is a mobile database: an alternative to SQLite & key-value stores.
• NeDB - Embedded persistent or in-memory database.
• better-sqlite3 - The fastest and simplest library for SQLite3 in Node.js.
• trilogy - TypeScript SQLite database layer with support for both native C++ and pure JavaScript backends.

Debug

• electron-debug - Adds useful debug features.
• debugtron - Debug in-production Electron-based apps.
• debug-menu - Chrome-like "inspect element" context-menu.

Dev Tools

• electron-reloader - Simple auto-reloading for Electron apps during development.
• elemon - Live-reload your app during development.
• electronmon - Run, watch, and restart electron apps using magic.
• electron-devtools-installer - An easy way to ensure Chrome DevTools extensions into Electron.
• devtron - Official DevTools extension.

IPC

• electron-better-ipc - Simplified IPC communication.
• ipc-stream - Duplex stream over IPC.
• electron-router - Router tidying up IPC message passing.
• electron-ipc-proxy - Transparent asynchronous remoting between renderer threads and the main thread using IPC.

Logging

• electron-log - Simple logging.
• electron-timber - Pretty logger.

Packager/Installer

• electron-builder - Create installers.
• electrify - Package Meteor apps.
• electron-packager - Package and distribute your app.
• electron-installer-windows - Create a Windows package.
• electron-installer-debian - Create a Debian package.
• electron-installer-redhat - Create a Red Hat package.

Persistent

• electron-store - Save and load data like user preferences, app state, cache, etc.
• electron-settings - Reads and writes user settings to disk.

Position/Size

• electron-positioner - Position windows at common spots.
• electron-drag - Improved window dragging.
• electron-window-state - Persist window sizes and positions.

Source Code Obfuscator/Protect

• javascript-obfuscator - A powerful obfuscator for JavaScript and Node.js.
• bytenode - A minimalist bytecode compiler for Node.js. it truly compiles your JavaScript code into V8 bytecode, so that you can protect your source code.

Testing

• spectron - Test Electron apps using ChromeDriver.
• electron-mocha - Run Mocha tests in Electron.
• jest-electron - Run and debug Jest unit tests in a browser environment.

UI

• electron-context-menu - Extensible context menu.
• electron-vibrancy - Add vibrancy (blur) to windows.
• electron-input-menu - Context menu for input elements.
• electron-create-menu - Default menus for all platforms, easily extendable, and with i18n support.
• menubar - Menubar app framework.
• electron-vibrancy - Add vibrancy (blur) to windows.

Uncategorized

• electron-ssl-pinning - Prevent MITM.
• electron-util - Useful utilities for developing apps and modules.
• auto-launch - Launch apps at system startup.
• electronegativity - Identify misconfigurations and security anti-patterns.
• electron-localshortcut - Add keyboard shortcuts locally to a window.
• electron-about-window - 'About This App' window.
• electron-unhandled - Catch unhandled errors and promise rejections.
• electron-sudo - Subprocesses with administrative privileges.
• electron-serve - Static file serving (Useful for routing, like react-router).
• fix-path - Fix the $PATH on macOS when run from a GUI app. Useful when spawning a child process.
• electron-pdf-window - View PDF files in browser windows.
• run-electron - Run Electron without all the junk terminal output.
• electron-process-manager - Process manager UI (like Chrome's task manager).
• electron-osx-appearance - Simplified API for accessing macOS's appearance settings.
• electron-chrome-extension - Add support for Chrome extensions.
• electron-detach - Restart an Electron app as a detached process.
• babel-preset-electron - Babel preset that only compiles what's necessary for a particular Electron version.
• electron-require - Simplified require.
• chromium-net-errors - Chromium's network errors as custom error classes.
• adblocker-electron - Block ads.
• electron-redux - Synchronize Redux state across windows.
• electron-rebuild - Rebuild native Node.js modules against the currently installed Electron version.
• ngx-electron - Integrate Electron APIs and Angular.
• electron-osx-sign - Code-signing for macOS apps.
• electron-compile - Use ES2015, CoffeeScript, Less, Stylus in your app without a precompilation step.

Window

• electron-window - Convenience methods for Electron windows.
• electron-windows - Manage multiple windows of Electron gracefully and provides powerful features.

Official

• Documentation
• Repository