Google Cobalt VS DeskGap

Google Cobalt

High-performance platform that implements a subset of HTML5/CSS/JS

DeskGap

Framework for building cross-platform desktop apps with web technologies (JavaScript, HTML and CSS).

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DeskGap

Categories	Development Tools Rapid Application Development Cross-Platform Development Cross-Platform Desktop Development
Website	deskgap.com
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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Google Cobalt and DeskGap)

DeskGap

Rapid Application Development

35 35%

Rapid Application Development

65% 65

Development Tools

35 35%

Development Tools

65% 65

Cross-Platform Development

35 35%

Cross-Platform Development

65% 65

Cross-Platform Desktop Development

50 50%

Cross-Platform Desktop Development

50% 50

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Google Cobalt should be more popular than DeskGap. It has been mentiond 3 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Google Cobalt mentions (3)

Crunchyroll is Now Available on Nintendo Switch.
I'm surprised Netflix doesn't just use Cobalt like Youtube probably does, but it looks like they use their own internal thing called Gibbon. Source: about 2 years ago
Google Dropping Material Design for iOS Apps
The YouTube app on Apple TV is absolutely atrocious. I can’t believe either Apple or Google think it’s acceptable — it must be one of the most-used apps on tvOS, and is easily the worst I’ve ever come across. It seems to be built with Cobalt [1], so it’s basically HTML5, pretending to be a native app. A short list of flaws which have infuriated me for months: • Scrolling is completely broken. Scroll down a... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
Stadia for Android TV is a completely different app - 9to5Google
Cobalt is this: https://cobalt.foo/. I believe that it practically replaces a browser and has small footprint, so you can use it to run web apps on devices that can't run Chrome and thus can't have PWAs via browser. Source: almost 3 years ago

DeskGap mentions (1)

I have created a home cloud project, for sharing files across your devices on the same network. Please do check it out and star it if you like the project. There are more features yet to come which I have planned. Thank you
I've never tried it but DeskGap lets you build a desktop app like Electron, but it uses your existing installed version of Chrome instead of bundling it's own Chrome engine inside the app so it keeps it much more lightweight. Might be interesting for you https://deskgap.com/. Source: almost 3 years ago