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Desktop App Development for Windows and Mac
When the browser cannot reach it, a desktop app can: files on disk, printers, programs that only run on Windows, and the sequence of clicks somebody repeats all day.
1. Discovery
Tell us what you need, by form or WhatsApp. No commitment and no canned reply.
2. Fixed quote within 24 hours
We come back with scope, price and delivery date in writing. You know what you get before you pay.
3. Staged delivery
You watch the system work as it grows, talking directly to the engineers building it.
If you are reading this, it is probably one of these:
- Someone on your team clicks through the same screens in the same order all day, and a local program would do it in seconds.
- The system has to talk to a printer, a local spreadsheet or a piece of software that only exists on a Windows machine in the back office.
- The automation tool you rent charges a subscription in dollars and still does not do the one thing you actually need.
What you get
One codebase, Windows and Mac
A single project that ships as a signed installer for both systems, with automatic updates so nobody reinstalls anything.
Task automation
The app runs the sequence that is manual today: collects, fills, exports, uploads and tells you when it is done or when something looked wrong.
Local integration
Files, spreadsheets, printers, scanners and legacy programs on the machine talking to your cloud systems, even when the legacy program has no API.
A dashboard for the team
A simple interface to see what the app is doing, review results and rerun a step, so the automation is not a black box on someone's desk.
Licensing and distribution
Per-machine or per-account licenses with billing built in if you sell the app, controlled rollout, crash reporting and updates without a reinstall.
- Electron
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- React
- Windows
- macOS
When a desktop app beats a web app
Most business software belongs in the browser, and we say so when it does. A desktop app earns its place in a short list of situations, and if yours is not on it, our progressive web app page is probably the better fit.
- The job needs the file system: watch a folder, process what lands in it, move it somewhere else.
- The job needs hardware: printers, scanners, scales, card readers, a serial port.
- The job automates another program's screens, because that program has no API and is not going away.
- The job runs unattended for hours on a machine in the office, with no browser tab that someone can close by accident.
- The product is sold to customers who expect an installer, a license and an icon on the desktop.
How we build and ship it
We build on Electron with TypeScript, which means one codebase for Windows and Mac and the same web technology we use everywhere else, so the app can share code with your web system. Native modules come in only where the job needs them.
Shipping is where desktop projects usually stall, so it is scoped from day one: code signing for Windows, signing and notarization for macOS, an installer for each platform, an auto-update channel, and crash reporting that tells us about a failure before your team does. All of it follows the platform vendors' published requirements, and it is included in the quote, not an extra.
Sources: Electron, code signing documentation, Apple, notarizing macOS software.
What decides the price
Three things: how many external programs or devices the app has to talk to, whether it runs unattended and therefore needs recovery logic for every failure, and whether it is an internal tool or a product you sell, which adds licensing and billing. A single-task automation for one team is one of the shorter projects we deliver; a licensed product with hardware integration is a different scope, and you see the difference in the written quote within 24 hours.
Why a Brazilian team
- We have shipped a desktop automation app for Windows and Mac that runs in a commercial operation today, so the packaging, signing and update pipeline is already built and tested.
- Our workday overlaps yours. A bug reported in your morning gets a senior engineer on it the same day, with a new build pushed through auto-update instead of an e-mail with an installer.
- Brazilian rates leave budget for the parts most desktop projects skip: code signing on both platforms, crash reporting, and the retry logic that keeps an automation from failing silently overnight.
Straight questions, straight answers
What kind of task can a desktop app automate?
Almost anything repetitive on a screen or a disk: collecting data from a system, filling forms, moving and renaming files, generating reports, publishing content, printing labels. You describe the routine on the discovery call and we tell you what can be automated and what should stay manual.
Does it run on both Windows and Mac?
Yes, from the same code. We deliver a signed installer for each platform and the app updates itself afterwards. If your team is Windows only, we still build it so a Mac version is a configuration change, not a rewrite.
Can I sell the app to my own customers?
Yes. We build license control per machine or per account, with billing integrated if you want to charge for it, and a controlled update channel so a bad build never reaches everyone at once. We have built a desktop automation app used in a commercial operation, so this is a path we have already walked.
What if the program the app needs to talk to is old and has no API?
That is exactly where desktop wins. The app can drive the program's screens, read its files or its database, and turn what it finds into clean data for your cloud systems. If there is any documentation at all, the integration gets more reliable, but its absence is not a blocker.
Why Electron and not a native app for each platform?
Because one codebase for both platforms costs a fraction of two native apps and ships in a fraction of the time, and because the app can share code with your web system. For the small set of tasks that need native performance, we add a native module for that task instead of rewriting the whole app.
How much does a desktop app cost?
We quote per project within 24 hours of hearing the routine. A single-task automation is a short project; hardware integration, unattended operation and licensing add to the scope. The quote includes signing, installers and auto-update, because a desktop app you cannot ship is not finished.
Who maintains it after delivery?
We do, when you want that: operating system updates, changes in the programs the app talks to, and new tasks as the routine evolves. Updates are pushed through the app's own channel, so nobody installs anything by hand. Our software maintenance page describes how the retainer works.
Tell us what you are building.
You will have a written, fixed quote within 24 hours.
Prefer a form? Get your quote here.