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Electron's official all-in-one toolchain for scaffolding, packaging and publishing apps.

Builds cross-platform desktop apps with Chromium and Node.js; powers VS Code, Slack, Discord and more.

Builds small, secure desktop and mobile apps from a web frontend and Rust backend using the OS webview.

Go framework for desktop apps with web frontends rendered in native webviews; Go's answer to Electron.

Head to head

Metric	Electron Forge	Electron	Tauri	Wails
Stars	7.2k	124k	113k	37k
Weekly downloads	1.2M	12.6M	4.6M	n/a
Download growth	-4%	+72%	+55%	n/a
Popularity score	73/100	90/100	86/100	83/100
Forks	654	17.9k	4.2k	1.9k
Open issues	266	769	1.5k	395
Last commit	1w ago	2d ago	5d ago	2d ago
Latest version	8.0.1	45.3.1	2.12.4	n/a
License	MIT	MIT	Apache-2.0	MIT
First released	2016	2013	2019	2018
Signals	None	Trending (detected automatically)Popular	Trending	None
Listed in	Mobile & Desktop › Desktop Apps with Web Tech	Mobile & Desktop › Desktop Apps with Web Tech	Mobile & Desktop › Desktop Apps with Web Tech	Mobile & Desktop › Desktop Apps with Web Tech

Weekly downloads over time

Hover for exact values; switch to log scale for tools of very different sizes. Not shown (no comparable download data): Wails.

Electron Forge
Electron
Tauri