Open source desktop-app projects
Every project in the registry tagged desktop-app, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
🎨 Best DeepSeek Harness Design Plugin. The open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Local-first desktop app. 🖼️ Your coding agent becomes the design engine:
A Swiss Army knife for developers.
A modified web browser that helps in responsive web development. A web developer's must have dev-tool.
Ad-free music player that streams from multiple sources
Local-first cross-platform desktop workspace for Claude Code / agents: multi-agent, Git worktrees, code diffs, skill marketplace, multi-model, Computer Use, tas
AutoClip|一个链接,一键出片。开源 AI 视频剪辑桌面工具,将播客、访谈、课程等长视频自动剪成短视频,生成字幕、封面和发布文案,适配抖音、小红书、TikTok、Reels 与 YouTube Shorts。Open-source AI video clipping & content repurposing.
A local multi-agent harness that works with your existing Claude Code, Codex subscriptions, allows you to run an office of agents
Local-first AI coding agent desktop: Electron + Rust host core + pi Agent Harness + user-installable plugins
Clean your system and free disk space
Open-source, desktop-grade AI agent that gets real work done — data analysis, slides, docs, video & web research. Built on OpenClaw; runs tools on your real des
Open-source AI research workbench for scientific research—local-first and model-agnostic.
The IDE you know, rebuilt in Rust. IntelliJ IDEA–style keymap, tool windows and search-everywhere in a fast native app: editor, code insight, debugger, Git, ter
An offline-first photo manager for large local libraries
The missing DevTools for Claude Code — inspect session logs, tool calls, token usage, subagents, and context window in a visual UI. Free, open source.
Hierarchical spreadsheet: a free-form data organizer that replaces outliners, mind maps and spreadsheets.
The all-in-one local AI studio for your desktop: chat, image and video generation and a coding agent in one free, open source app. Windows and Linux. No Docker,
Open-source, local-first conversational AI video editor with a professional multi-track timeline, Agent Skills, MCP integration, and Remotion rendering.
Cross-platform desktop GUI app to clean image metadata
A modern, fast and productivity driven SQL client with a focus in UX
Bitterbot - a mesh of agents that turns shared experience into collective capability.
Developed mobile apps so easy and native with GUI 📱
High-performance multi-data-source database client — ~30MB, AI & MCP ready, zero Electron bloat. | 高性能多数据源数据库客户端:约 30MB,AI 与 MCP 就绪,告别 Electron 膨胀。
🦭 会记忆、能持续推进目标、会动态编排多 Agent 的跨端桌面 AI 助手,也可服务化常驻 NAS / 云端 | A cross-device desktop AI agent with memory, autonomous goals, dynamic workflows, and headless deploy
Full-stack AI agent for coding, files, terminals, tools, research, content, multimodal work, and multi-agent workflows.
🤖 Open-source, local-first alternative to Grok Bot, OpenAI dots and Claude Duet. Your own AI bots on any model: GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM
A personal context store for AI agents and assistants—reuse your existing coding agent CLI (Codex/Claude/OpenCode) with built‑in Skills/tools and a desktop GUI
PiDeck 是一个开源的桌面工作台,用于在本地项目目录中统一管理 pi Agent 会话,并支持导入 Codex、Claude 本地会话以便统一浏览和恢复。支持多项目工作区、会话历史、Git 集成、内置终端、模型配置和插件管理,基于 Electron 构建。
Unified research workspace for humans & agents — PDF Q&A with citations, Vault, writing. 为人与 Agent 协作的科研工作台;补齐 Zotero 时代的人机上下文断点。
Fast, local-first Git GUI built in Rust
🔑 Free Offline-first Password Manager
Transform your time tracking into actionable insights
Parametric 3D CAD with a real B-rep kernel (OpenCASCADE)
Edge-Drop is like a Dynamic Island for your desktop clipboard. It hides on the edge of your screen and opens when you hover near it, letting you easily store an
Chapar is a simple and easy to use api testing tools aims to help developers to test their api endpoints. it support http and grpc protocols.
A beautiful, native Kubernetes desktop client. Every cluster and cloud account in one place. Free and open source, no account, no telemetry.
OpenWiki — Mac desktop AI knowledge management tool. Capture clipboard, build personal wiki, get AI insights.
Getting Things GNOME! desktop app development
A minimal, distraction-free markdown editor built with Tauri, React, and TypeScript
Kition brings Markdown, DataTable, WhiteBoard, a tool-using AI agent, browser research, and visual workflows into one desktop workspace.
Agentic SQL database manager for 40+ databases — PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, SQLite, DuckDB, ClickHouse, Oracle and more. Lightweight, privacy-first, AI-powe
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Frequently asked questions
How many open source desktop-app projects are there?
This registry tracks 40 projects tagged desktop-app, with 294,560 GitHub stars between them. The most-adopted is open-design at 105,526 stars.
Are these desktop-app projects free to use?
Yes — 39 of the 40 carry an explicit open-source licence across 7 distinct licences, so there is no licence fee. Where a project also sells a hosted or enterprise version, the self-hosted path remains free.
Which desktop-app project should I choose?
The list above is ranked by GitHub stars, but stars measure attention rather than fit. Check three things on each card: the licence (permissive versus copyleft), the language it is written in, and the last-push date — a high-star project that has not been pushed in a year is a liability.
Are these desktop-app projects still maintained?
38 of the 40 were pushed in the last 90 days, and every card shows its exact last-push date so you can see the rest. Sort your shortlist by that date before committing to a migration.