https://pake.run/blog Choose a web app tool, set up separate accounts, customize your apps, and build with Pake CLI. en Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pake.run/blog/create-desktop-shortcut-website https://pake.run/blog/create-desktop-shortcut-website Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Build an app To create a desktop shortcut for a website, drag the site information icon beside the address onto the Windows desktop, drag a link out of Safari on a Mac. https://pake.run/blog/best-website-to-desktop-app-tools https://pake.run/blog/best-website-to-desktop-app-tools Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Build an app In 2026, turn a website into a desktop app on a Mac with Safari's File › Add to Dock on macOS Sonoma 14 or later. https://pake.run/blog/linux-web-apps https://pake.run/blog/linux-web-apps Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Build an app A Linux web app is a website with its own launcher and window. On Linux Mint the simplest route is Web Apps (the Web App Manager), on Debian and Ubuntu the closest match is Peppermint Ice, which their package archives do not carry, and on Omarchy it is Install > Web App in the Omarchy menu. https://pake.run/blog/tiktok-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/tiktok-desktop-app Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites On Windows, TikTok has a Microsoft Store app whose listing calls it a web-based app, so it is the website in a frame. https://pake.run/blog/google-docs-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/google-docs-desktop-app Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Google's help pages offer no Google Docs or Sheets desktop app, so the options are Drive for desktop (which opens Docs files in your browser). https://pake.run/blog/jira-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/jira-desktop-app Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Jira on a computer in 2026 is the website. Atlassian ended support for Jira Cloud for Mac in February 2022 and tells you to continue in a browser, and the App Store app Jira Cloud by Atlassian is for iPhone and iPad. https://pake.run/blog/what-is-webview https://pake.run/blog/what-is-webview Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 How it works A WebView is the browser engine packaged as a component an app embeds. A WebView app uses that component to show a page in its own window, without Chrome or Edge's address bar, extensions or profile. https://pake.run/blog/what-is-webkitgtk https://pake.run/blog/what-is-webkitgtk Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 How it works WebKitGTK is the GTK port of WebKit, the engine project behind Safari, and a Tauri or Pake window on Linux draws the page with the copy your distribution installed. https://pake.run/blog/zhihu-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/zhihu-desktop-app Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Zhihu has no desktop client for Mac or Windows: on a computer it is the website at zhihu.com, and the app downloads it offers are for phones. https://pake.run/blog/douban-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/douban-desktop-app Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Douban has no official Mac or Windows client. Its own pages offer only a QR code for the phone app, so on a computer it is the website at douban.com, plus an iPhone app that an Apple silicon Mac can also run. https://pake.run/blog/wechat-official-account-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/wechat-official-account-desktop-app Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites There is no separate desktop program for managing a WeChat Official Account. On a computer the full backend is the website mp.weixin.qq.com, and on a phone the sign-in page points to the official 公众号助手 app. https://pake.run/blog/discord-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/discord-desktop-app Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Use Discord's own Mac, Windows or Linux app for voice while another window is in front. https://pake.run/blog/kindle-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/kindle-desktop-app Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Amazon still offers a Kindle app for Windows 11 and for Mac, and the old Kindle for PC is unsupported as of June 30, 2026. https://pake.run/blog/excalidraw-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/excalidraw-desktop-app Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites None of Excalidraw's own pages list a desktop app, so the options are a browser tab, an installed PWA or a Pake app. https://pake.run/blog/wavebox-alternative https://pake.run/blog/wavebox-alternative Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Keep Wavebox when you want many accounts in one Chromium window; use another tool when that window, or its free plan, is the problem. https://pake.run/blog/msedgewebview2-exe https://pake.run/blog/msedgewebview2-exe Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 How it works Each copy of msedgewebview2.exe is one process in an app's WebView2 group, and the GPU process is the one that draws that app's pages. https://pake.run/blog/outlook-linux https://pake.run/blog/outlook-linux Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Microsoft makes Outlook for Windows and Mac and lists no Linux version, so on Linux you use Outlook on the web. https://pake.run/blog/microsoft-365-linux https://pake.run/blog/microsoft-365-linux Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Microsoft's pages say Microsoft 365 apps run on PCs, Macs, phones and tablets, and list browsers plus iOS and Android apps for the free web versions. https://pake.run/blog/icloud-linux https://pake.run/blog/icloud-linux Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Apple has no iCloud app for Linux, and iCloud.com in a browser is the only first-party way in. https://pake.run/blog/apple-music-linux https://pake.run/blog/apple-music-linux Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Apple lists no Apple Music app for Linux, so on Linux the official route is the web player at music.apple.com in a browser. https://pake.run/blog/figma-linux https://pake.run/blog/figma-linux Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Figma's desktop apps exist for macOS and Windows only, so on Linux Figma runs in a browser. https://pake.run/blog/canva-linux https://pake.run/blog/canva-linux Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Canva's download page offers its desktop app for Mac and Windows and does not mention Linux, so on Linux the editor runs in a browser tab at canva.com. https://pake.run/blog/threads-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/threads-desktop-app Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Meta's Threads page lists apps for iPhone and Android and sends computers to the web at threads.com. https://pake.run/blog/messenger-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/messenger-desktop-app Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Meta ended the standalone Messenger apps for Mac and Windows, and its help center now sends computer users to the web. https://pake.run/blog/reddit-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/reddit-desktop-app Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Reddit's help center points to the App Store for iPhone and Google Play for Android, and its app articles do not mention a desktop app. https://pake.run/blog/youtube-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/youtube-desktop-app Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Google's YouTube Help pages describe watching on a computer through a browser, and none of them names a Mac, Windows or Linux download. https://pake.run/blog/google-keep-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/google-keep-desktop-app Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Google does not offer a Keep app for Mac, Windows or Linux, and the old Chrome app ended in early 2021. https://pake.run/blog/google-messages-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/google-messages-desktop-app Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Google does not ship a Google Messages app for Mac, Windows or Linux; on a computer it offers Messages for web, which pairs with the Messages app on an Android phone. https://pake.run/blog/google-photos-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/google-photos-desktop-app Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Google does not ship a Google Photos app for computers, and its help pages send you to photos.google.com. https://pake.run/blog/notebooklm-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/notebooklm-desktop-app Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Google lists no Mac, Windows or Linux app for NotebookLM, which it renamed Gemini Notebook in July 2026. https://pake.run/blog/webview2-manager https://pake.run/blog/webview2-manager Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 How it works The WebView2 Manager is the main process of one app's embedded Edge engine, and the msedgewebview2.exe entries around it are that same app's renderer. https://pake.run/blog/inject-css-js-web-app https://pake.run/blog/inject-css-js-web-app Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Window and behavior Pake CLI takes --inject with one or more local .css or .js files and bakes them into the app, so they run on every page it opens. https://pake.run/blog/web-app-notifications https://pake.run/blog/web-app-notifications Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Window and behavior A Pake app answers a page's notification request itself, reports permission as already granted and hands the alert to the operating system. https://pake.run/blog/perplexity-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/perplexity-desktop-app Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Perplexity's own desktop app is Personal Computer, for a Mac on macOS 15 or later and for Windows 10 version 1809 or later. https://pake.run/blog/whatsapp-desktop-linux https://pake.run/blog/whatsapp-desktop-linux Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites WhatsApp's download page offers apps for Mac and Windows and lists none for Linux, so on Linux the usual route is WhatsApp Web in a browser tab. https://pake.run/blog/gmail-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/gmail-desktop-app Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Google does not make a Gmail desktop app for Mac or Windows. Its Gmail help sends computer users to the Gmail website and offers the Gmail app for Android, iPhone and iPad, and the Mac App Store has no Gmail app from Google, so on a Mac or Windows PC a "Gmail app" is one of three things: a website installed as an app from your browser, a mail program that talks to Gmail over IMAP, or a wrapper built around mail.google.com. https://pake.run/blog/google-calendar-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/google-calendar-desktop-app Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Google does not make a Google Calendar app for computers, so the real options are an installed web app from Chrome or Safari. https://pake.run/blog/instagram-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/instagram-desktop-app Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Instagram has no Mac app, and on Windows the Microsoft Store's Instagram is a web-based app. https://pake.run/blog/microsoft-teams-linux https://pake.run/blog/microsoft-teams-linux Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Microsoft's system requirements list no native Teams client for Linux, and say Linux users have Teams for web and Teams as a progressive web app (PWA). https://pake.run/blog/twitch-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/twitch-desktop-app Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Press reports say Twitch shut down its Windows and Mac app on 30 April 2022, so on a computer you watch at twitch.tv. https://pake.run/blog/ferdium-alternative https://pake.run/blog/ferdium-alternative Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Ferdium, Franz, Rambox and Wavebox put many web services in one window with a sidebar, and they can run several accounts of the same service. https://pake.run/blog/how-pake-works https://pake.run/blog/how-pake-works Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 How it works Pake does not rewrite a website. The pake command copies a prebuilt Tauri app template, writes your options into its config, compiles it with Rust, and bundles it as an installer that opens your URL in the web view your operating system already has. https://pake.run/blog/pwa-vs-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/pwa-vs-desktop-app Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 How it works A PWA is the site's own installable version, while a wrapper app such as Pake puts any address in a native window around the system web view. https://pake.run/blog/electron-alternatives https://pake.run/blog/electron-alternatives Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 How it works If you want to leave Electron, the closest swap is a framework that keeps your HTML, CSS and JavaScript but uses the web view the operating system already has. https://pake.run/blog/wkwebview-explained https://pake.run/blog/wkwebview-explained Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 How it works WKWebView is the view Apple's WebKit framework provides for showing web content inside a Mac or iOS app, and it runs the same WebKit engine Safari is built on. https://pake.run/blog/pin-website-to-taskbar https://pake.run/blog/pin-website-to-taskbar Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Build an app Install the site as an app first, then right-click its icon and choose Pin to taskbar. In Edge the pin is also under Details at edge://apps. https://pake.run/blog/always-on-top-web-app https://pake.run/blog/always-on-top-web-app Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Window and behavior To keep one website in front of every other window, make it a Pake app and turn on Always on top in its options (under Window in Pake for Windows, under Advanced in Pake for Mac), then give it a small size. https://pake.run/blog/menu-bar-web-app https://pake.run/blog/menu-bar-web-app Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Window and behavior A Pake app can keep a website running after you close its window and show an icon in the Mac menu bar or Windows tray. https://pake.run/blog/user-agent-web-app https://pake.run/blog/user-agent-web-app Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Window and behavior When a site shows an unsupported-browser page inside a Pake app, check whether it is rejecting the user agent string. https://pake.run/blog/deepseek-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/deepseek-desktop-app Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites DeepSeek's own desktop download is DeepSeek Harness, an open-source agent app in public preview. https://pake.run/blog/chatgpt-desktop-app-linux https://pake.run/blog/chatgpt-desktop-app-linux Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites OpenAI and Anthropic now ship Linux desktop apps, each for a short list of distributions. https://pake.run/blog/gemini-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/gemini-desktop-app Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Google now ships Gemini as a Mac app, a Windows app, a website and a feature inside Chrome. https://pake.run/blog/grok-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/grok-desktop-app Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites xAI has no Grok chat app for Mac or Windows: the chat runs on grok.com, iPhone, iPad and Android. https://pake.run/blog/notion-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/notion-desktop-app Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Notion has desktop apps for Mac and Windows but, by its own help page, no Linux app. https://pake.run/blog/weread-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/weread-desktop-app Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites WeRead does not offer a dedicated desktop download for Mac or Windows. On a computer, you read at weread.qq.com, run the iPad app on an Apple silicon Mac, or run the phone app through Tencent's app store. https://pake.run/blog/x-twitter-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/x-twitter-desktop-app Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites X's download page offers its app for iPhone, iPad and Android, and on a computer you use the website. https://pake.run/blog/xiaohongshu-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/xiaohongshu-desktop-app Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Xiaohongshu has no desktop app for browsing or posting: its download page lists only iOS and Android apps, next to the website. https://pake.run/blog/youtube-music-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/youtube-music-desktop-app Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Popular sites Google documents YouTube Music on computers as a website in Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge, with no Mac or Windows download. https://pake.run/blog/tauri-vs-electron https://pake.run/blog/tauri-vs-electron Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 How it works Electron ships its own copy of Chromium and Node.js inside every app, while Tauri uses the web view the operating system already has. https://pake.run/blog/what-is-webview2 https://pake.run/blog/what-is-webview2 Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 How it works Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime is the Windows component apps use to show web pages in their own windows, and you need it whenever one of your apps does. https://pake.run/blog/webcatalog-alternatives https://pake.run/blog/webcatalog-alternatives Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 How it works WebCatalog, Unite, Coherence X and Pake all give a website its own window and icon. https://pake.run/blog/website-to-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/website-to-desktop-app Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Build an app To turn a website into a desktop app on Mac, Windows or Linux, try the browser's built-in web app feature first, because it takes a minute and costs nothing. https://pake.run/blog/website-to-mac-app https://pake.run/blog/website-to-mac-app Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Build an app On macOS Sonoma 14 or later, Safari's File › Add to Dock gives a website its own window and Dock icon in about a minute. https://pake.run/blog/website-to-windows-app https://pake.run/blog/website-to-windows-app Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Build an app In Edge, choose Settings and more … › More tools › Apps › Install this site as an app and the site gets its own window. https://pake.run/blog/local-html-desktop-app https://pake.run/blog/local-html-desktop-app Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Build an app Run your production build, then point Pake CLI at the output folder with pake ./dist --name my-tool. https://pake.run/blog/github-actions-build https://pake.run/blog/github-actions-build Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Build an app Fork tw93/Pake, open Actions, run Build App With Pake CLI with your website address and an app name, then download the app from the run's Artifacts section. https://pake.run/blog/move-web-apps-between-computers https://pake.run/blog/move-web-apps-between-computers Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Build an app Export your settings from Pake to a .pake file, install Pake on the new Mac or Windows PC, import the file, and create each app again. https://pake.run/blog/customize-web-app-window https://pake.run/blog/customize-web-app-window Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Window and behavior A Pake app has three layers you can change separately: the window frame, the icon, and the page inside, which belongs to the website. https://pake.run/blog/multiple-website-accounts https://pake.run/blog/multiple-website-accounts Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Window and behavior To stay signed in to two accounts on one website, make two Pake apps. Add Another Account in the ⋯ menu of My Apps copies the first app's settings and icon under a new name, and the copy starts signed out, because each app has its own identity. https://pake.run/blog/google-login-webview https://pake.run/blog/google-login-webview Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 Window and behavior A site can load fine in a Pake app while sign-in fails, for three look-alike reasons. https://pake.run/blog/nativefier-alternative https://pake.run/blog/nativefier-alternative Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tw93 How it works Nativefier was archived on September 29, 2023, and its maintainers favor a browser's own install feature for most people.