Photino Alternatives

Photino is described as 'Lightweight open-source framework for building native, cross-platform desktop applications with Web UI technology' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Photino for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Self-Hosted apps. The best Photino alternative is Qt, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Photino are Electron, Flutter, Tauri and React Native.

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  1. Qt icon
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    Qt is a cross-platform application framework that is widely used for developing application software that can be run on various software and hardware platforms with little or no change in the underlying codebase, while having the power and speed of native applications.

    57 Qt alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  2. Electron icon
     118 likes

    If you can build a website, you can build a desktop app. Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It takes care of the hard parts so you can focus on the core of your application.

    46 Electron alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. Flutter icon
     69 likes

    Build apps for any screen. Flutter transforms the app development process. Build, test, and deploy beautiful mobile, web, desktop, and embedded apps from a single codebase.

    51 Flutter alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Dart
    • Flutter
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  4. Tauri icon
     29 likes

    Tauri is a toolkit that helps developers make applications for the major desktop platforms - using virtually any frontend framework in existence. The core is built with Rust and the CLI leverages Node.js making Tauri a genuinely polyglot approach to creating and maintaining...

    16 Tauri alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
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  5. React Native icon
     46 likes

    React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about — learn once, write...

    48 React Native alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • React
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  6. GTK icon
     55 likes

    GTK is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application suites.

    38 GTK alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
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  7. NW.js icon
     38 likes

    Node.js bridge to Webkit – package and distribute webapps on all platforms.

    22 NW.js alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. NeutralinoJS icon
     15 likes

    Neutralino is a lightweight application development framework. It lets you develop desktop apps, cloud apps and even browser based apps.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. RhoMobile icon
     7 likes

    Cross-platform framework for creating mobile and desktop apps for iOS, Android, WinCE, Sailfish OS, Windows, Linux and OS X.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Windows Mobile
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Sailfish OS
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  10. Ultimate++ icon
     25 likes

    Ultimate++, also called U++, is a C++ cross-platform rapid application development framework focused on programmers productivity. It includes a set of libraries (GUI, SQL, etc..), and an integrated development environment.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  11. wxWidgets icon
     22 likes

    wxWidgets is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, OS X, Linux and UNIX on 32-bit and 64-bit architectures as well as several mobile platforms including Windows Mobile, iPhone SDK and embedded GTK+.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. Are you often struggling to find a particular website among the many browser windows and tabs already opened? Do you wish you could easily just launch your favorite websites and have them run in their own window as if they were desktop applications?

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mint
    • Manjaro Linux
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