Electron
Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
- Also known as
- electron
What is Electron?
Electron is a framework for building desktop applications by embedding Chromium and Node.js into its binary, allowing developers to maintain a single JavaScript codebase and create cross-platform apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Electron pricing
We don't have Electron's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
Free and open source
What Electron does
The capabilities that matter for mobile app frameworks, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Target platforms
- Desktop applications (macOS, Windows, Linux)
- Approach
- Desktop WebView
- Primary language
- JavaScript
- Renders true native UI
- ✗
- Hot reload
- -
- TypeScript-first
- -
- Over-the-air code push
- ✓
- Single codebase, multiple platforms
- ✓
- Desktop support
- ✓
- Builds for web
- ✗
- Native API access
- Full native
- Bundled UI component library
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- macOS
- Linux
- Windows
Electron alternatives
Other mobile app frameworks we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- React NativeLearn once, write anywherelow · 41%
- FlutterBuild apps for any screenlow · 26%
- ExpoBuild native apps with Reactlow · 44%
- Compose MultiplatformBuild beautiful shared UIs for Android, iOS, desktop, and web that feel natural on every platformlow · 16%
- .NET MAUIBuild native, cross-platform desktop and mobile apps all in one frameworklow · 22%
- IonicThe mobile SDK for the Weblow · 44%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Electron, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 58 | 16.00 | 925.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 80 | 8.00 | 640.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 100 | 6.00 | 600.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 8.00 | 400.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 13.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"targets":"Desktop applications (macOS, Windows, Linux)","approach":"desktop_webview","language":"JavaScript","web_target":false,"ota_updates":true,"native_widgets":false,"desktop_support":true,"single_codebase":true,"native_api_access":"full"} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |