Nativefier

Electron-based wrappers allow you to run any web app on the most important OSes out there, namely Windows, macOS and Linux, without having to employ the services of web browsers.

If you are highly dependent on certain web apps you use on a daily basis and they don't feature official desktop clients, then you might find the following tool to be of great interest.

Nativefier is a lightweight and efficient command line piece of software designed from the ground up to help you create wrappers for any web app with nothing more than a simple command.

In order to get started with the utility, you need to either build it from its source file or, even simpler, install it directly from any instance of the Command Prompt.

If you are going with the latter option, you firstly need to make sure that Node.js is installed on your computer and then launch a CMD instance with administrator rights.

Once you use the cd (change directory shell-command) in order to select the path towards you computer's desktop, simply type the following command: "npm install nativefier -g".

The installation process does not require any user intervention and it should be over in a few minutes time.

From this point onwards, you can effortlessly wrap any web app by entering the following command in any CMD instance with administrator rights: "nativefier" followed by the exact address of the website, with space in between.

For example, you can wrap our official news sections by typing "Nativefier news.softpedia.com" or the official Facebook Messenger web app by typing "Nativefier messenger.com" and so forth.

Nativefier automatically determines the app's name, your OS and processor type among other details, and creates a folder with all the necessary dependencies on your computer's desktop.

We should point out that you can overwrite the official name of the web app by using a slightly modified version of the previously-mentioned command, namely Nativefier --name (Insert custom name here) followed by the address.

Nativefier is a very efficient command line tool that allows you to create native website wrappers in mere seconds, directly from the Command Prompt.

Despite not having a typical user-friendly interface, the application can be successfully installed, deployed and used by all categories of users.