Electron
How vibe coders and indie builders use Electron: 127 projects built with it and 2 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
127
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.7%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
▼ -37%
Add-ons built for it
2
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- React 39
- TypeScript 24
- SQLite 17
- Claude API 15
- Node.js 12
- OpenAI API 12
- Vercel 12
- JavaScript 11
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Electron
- Chalkboard — Displays agent text output as visual diagrams on a board inside an Electron app with an integrated terminal.“Chalkboard for ai agents”
- I built an AI app that answers… — Replies to WhatsApp customer messages for small businesses using only the owner's business info and FAQ, and hands chats to a human when it cannot answer.“I built an AI app that answers WhatsApp messages for small businesses. I'm discontinuing the project, does anyone want to take it over?”
- Nabsun — Runs an AI assistant in a browser side panel that reads open tabs and clicks, types, and fills forms with user approval for state-changing actions.“Nabsun - an open-source Chromium browser with a built-in AI assistant that can click, type, and fill in forms for you (local model included, MIT licensed)”
- electron-angular-template — Provides a starter template for building desktop apps with Electron and Angular, including typed IPC, a note editor example, tests, and packaging.“Your next desktop app, with Angular + Electron and a head start”
- Pawse — Displays an animated desktop pet that reacts to cursor movement, typing speed, and AI agent activity, and offers break reminders and a Pomodoro timer.“I made a free desktop pet that cheers on Claude Code / Codex while they work and celebrates when the task is done”
- Captain Who — Runs a desktop AI agent that edits files, executes terminal commands, searches the web, and drives browser tools using user-supplied model API keys.“Captain Who — an open-source, production ready desktop AI agent built with Rust and Electron”
- FocusONN — Shows an always-on-top bar with the current focus task beside a Pomodoro countdown.“I built an always-on-top "focus bar" for Windows to stop losing context after interruptions (My first app release!)”
- SteamEdge — Logs into Steam without the client running and automatically idles games to farm trading cards and boost playtime across multiple accounts.“Steam card farmer that doesn't need Steam running”
- Sanctorum — Runs teams of LLM-driven agents in a pixel-art office, where each agent's tool permissions come from the desk it sits at.“I'm Building a pixel building to mange AI agents that can use almost any LLM available”
- Plexo — Splits a single download across multiple internet connections to speed it up.“I built Plexo — a download manager that combines multiple internet connections for a single download.”
- gamepal — Runs a desktop pet that assigns productive tasks after losing ranked games and awards stars redeemable for game rewards.“I built a desktop app for the gamers, based on the popular "For every game of ranked, I do something productive" trend”
- CapDrop — Automatically screenshots on-screen pages at a set interval and runs local OCR to combine them into one searchable PDF.“I built a Windows app that auto-captures on-screen pages and OCRs them into one searchable PDF”
- ByteSweep — Scans a Mac's disk to show what is using space and offers cleanup of developer caches, backups, snapshots and duplicate or large files.“I built a Mac storage cleaner with AI-assisted development — here’s how I made it”
- Terminal OS — Presents remote Linux servers as a desktop over SSH, with file access, terminal, monitoring, log streaming and alerts.“I built a desktop for my Linux servers that runs entirely over SSH”
- ApexCut — Scans helmet cam telemetry motion data to pick out the most interesting moments of a motorcycle ride and assembles them into a highlight movie.“Built an app that cuts a 22 minute ride in about a second”
Latest add-ons built for Electron
- coolbeans — Issues software license keys from Stripe or PayPal payments and lets desktop or mobile apps check whether a key is valid.“Built our own licensing service instead of paying per active user, then made it MIT”
- Sealant — Generates end-to-end tests for a web or Electron codebase by identifying critical features and records them for re-running as the code changes.“Automated QA Tests for Web Projects”
Pitched as alternatives to Electron
- Krate — Packages desktop apps as single portable .krate files that run on Mac, Windows and Linux using a shared installed runtime.“I built a format where the same app file runs on Mac, Windows and Linux”
- Screen FX — Overlays confetti, fireworks, fire effects, sound-backed text signs and other animations on top of the macOS screen via Stream Deck keys.“I made a Stream Deck plugin that throws confetti, fireworks and a full-screen "GAME OVER" over your Mac screen. Native, 200 KB, no extra apps”
- NanoClick — Records and replays mouse and keyboard automation sequences with loops, conditions, and human-like timing jitter on Windows.“I got tired of 200MB bloated autoclickers, so I spent my free time building a 2.15MB native alternative in Rust + Tauri 2 (NanoClick) [Open Source]”
- Serein — Provides a native desktop Discord client with messaging, media, voice, and screen sharing.“I’m building Serein, a free, open-source Discord client in Rust”
- LeadHunter AI Desk — Sends personalized cold emails to CSV lead lists using AI-written copy and a throttled SMTP2GO API sender.“Tired of paying 50 bucks/mo for cold email SaaS tools, so I built a 3.3MB native Windows desktop app powered by DeepSeek & VisualNEO Win (Free & Open Source)”
- Rammax — Runs multiple web apps as separate macOS windows in a shared WebKit process and suspends inactive ones to reduce memory use.“I was tired of Electron eating 13GB of RAM on my 8GB Mac, so I built Rammax (Runs 17 workspaces in 2.2GB via native WebKit)”
- Dynamic Edge — Provides a dockable Windows top-edge or side-edge widget bar with media controls, a clipboard history shelf, a timer and stopwatch, and a shake gesture to toggle it.“I built Dynamic Edge: A fluid, native WinUI 3 island & edge dock (Media player, clipboard shelf, stopwatch/timers, and mouse shake toggle)”
- Komet — Provides a desktop control room that unifies coding agent sessions, transcripts, tool activity and checkpoints, with optional self-hosted multi-device sync.“I built Komet — a native Rust + gpui control room for coding agents.”
- tornedo — Searches multiple torrent sites at once, merges and ranks results, and downloads selected files in a terminal interface.“I built a terminal-native torrent client because I got tired of fighting torrent clients”
- Termite — Runs a native macOS terminal that flags split panes when an AI coding agent is waiting for input and lets you reply from notifications.“Termite — a native macOS terminal for babysitting multiple AI agents (free & open source)”
- TickNest — Provides a tray-resident local scratchpad for jotting and checking off tasks, saved to a local JSON file.“I was tired of 300MB Electron todo apps, so I built TickNest – a 15MB, local-first tray scratchpad using Tauri & Rust”
- SiphonDB — Provides a lightweight native desktop interface for managing databases.“Built an open-source database management tool with Tauri”
- Monoloth — Wraps terminal coding agents like OpenCode and Claude Code in a desktop window with multiple sessions, a command palette, and a usage tracker.“I built a desktop window for running OpenCode / Claude Code instead of a bare terminal”
- Feral — Runs local GGUF models and cloud AI models in a desktop workspace with sandboxed agent tools, persistent memory graph, and MCP server installation.“Feral v0.2.0 - open-source local AI workspace (llama.cpp + BYOK + agent runtime), now on Windows, macOS and Linux. No telemetry, no subscription, MIT/Apache-2.0”
- Venore — Runs a local desktop app where an AI agent reads and edits code and a canvas organizes research notes and ideas.“Venore: 6 months ago I promised I'd open this up if it ever became something serious. It's done.”