App It

app-it

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Turn a local web project — or any hosted web app — into a macOS Dock-launchable `.app` bundle — a native window, its own Dock icon, and clean start/stop — **without Electron, Tauri, or a rewrite.**

**Unofficial community project** — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic or OpenAI. "Claude Code" and "Codex" are their respective owners' marks, named here only to say which assistants app-it plugs into. This is an independent open-source tool built by one developer.


*A real `app-it` build, in motion. `Fjord` is an ordinary local web project (`node server.js`); app-it turns it into a native macOS app — double-click launches it, the window opens with its own Dock icon, and ⌘Q quits the app **and** frees the dev-server port. The actual generated app, not a mockup.*

**Status** — Working, in daily use. The launcher templates are battle-tested across 12+ real projects; `v0.1.0` is the first standalone, marketplace-installable release. macOS only, by design.

**Windows beta** — macOS is in daily use; Windows is an early beta, now with its first real-hardware fixes but still needing more. A complete sibling plugin (`plugins/app-it-windows/`), gated by a required `windows-latest` CI job (build · PowerShell lint · manifest parse · icon round-trip), mirrors the macOS contract with Windows primitives. The author runs only macOS, so for a long time it had never touched real Windows hardware; that changed with [#8](https://github.com/Christian-Katzmann/app-it/pull/8), the first run on an actual Windows machine, and a run of fixes since — a real start, not a finish line. If you're on Windows and want to help harden it, the doorway is [docs/WI