Topic
Open-source startups tagged #desktop-app
9 open-source startups in this directory carry the GitHub topic #desktop-app. 7 pushed code within 30 days of the snapshot of 2026-09-22, 0 have been quiet for 31–120 days, 2 have not pushed in over 120 days. Topics are set by each repository’s own maintainers, so this is what those projects chose to call themselves rather than a category we assigned.
7 of 9 pushed within 30 days of the snapshot of 2026-09-22. How we measure it →
The list
All 9, most-starred first.
The last column is the most recent push GitHub reported to us on 2026-09-22. It counts a push to any branch, by a person or a bot — it is not a claim that anyone is maintaining the project, and a quiet repository may be a finished one.
| Project | What it does | Stars | Ship status | Last verified push |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| farion1231/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 | 134.1K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| nexu-io/open-design | 🎨 Best DeepSeek Harness Design Plugin. The open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Local-first desktop app. 🖼️ Your coding agent becomes the design engine: prototypes, landing pages, dashboards, slides, images & video — real files, HTML/PDF/PPTX/MP4 export. 🤖 Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / DeepSeek Harness / OpenCode & 20+ CLIs via BYOK. | 97.6K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| th-ch/youtube-music | Pear 🍐 is extension for music player | 33.6K | Still shipping | Sep 21, 2026 |
| responsively-org/responsively-app | A modified web browser that helps in responsive web development. A web developer's must have dev-tool. | 25.2K | Still shipping | Sep 20, 2026 |
| ai-shifu/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 | 16.5K | Still shipping | Sep 11, 2026 |
| HBAI-Ltd/Toonflow-app | Toonflow 是开源一站式 AI 短剧创作工具，将小说、剧本快速转化为动画短剧。集成 AI 编剧、智能分镜、角色与视频生成，跨平台桌面端轻量部署，助力创作者低成本批量产出视觉内容。Toonflow is an open-source AI tool that turns stories and scripts into animated short dramas. Features AI scriptwriting, storyboarding, character and video generation. A cross-platform desktop app for efficient content creation. | 15.9K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| NanmiCoder/cc-haha | Local-first cross-platform desktop workspace for Claude Code / agents: multi-agent, Git worktrees, code diffs, skill marketplace, multi-model, Computer Use, task-aware desktop pets, with WeChat, Feishu, DingTalk, Telegram, WhatsApp and H5 access. | 14.7K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| listen1/listen1_desktop | one for all free music in china (Windows, Mac, Linux desktop) | 11.4K | Gone silent | Apr 7, 2026 |
| reactide/reactide | Reactide is the first dedicated IDE for React web application development. | 10.5K | Gone silent | Jan 8, 2023 |
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The 8 largest other topics in the directory, then the other ways to slice it. Every count is as of the snapshot of 2026-09-22.
Snapshot of 2026-09-22 · 721 repos in the directory · every number on this page is measured against that date, not against today. What this measurement cannot tell you →