Do you prefer your tools as desktop apps or as web apps?

Hmm, it depends; I use Discord and Teams in desktop because they have additional features and quality of life is better than the web version, but some apps like Whatsapp I use in the web.

Such a tough question! It's like choosing one favorite child... Can one like and use them both just as much? 🤔

Great question, @laurentiu_ciobanu ! 🙏 When it's light work I use web app, when it's hard work I use desktop app. For me it depends on the context, but I use desktop apps the most. Cheers!

Gotta go desktop. Makes life easier. Go native, or go home.

Web apps forever. I don't like to install apps, to waste time & to update them once in a while.

I personally like individual apps. Even though a lot of the apps I use daily are made using frameworks like Electron, and the difference between web and desktop apps shrinks every day, I still feel like things are somehow more organized by having an individual window for every app, instead of a lot of tabs in the same browser window.

Desktop app for the win if I use it on a daily basis! Having too many tabs open always feels so unproductive.

The desktop app comes with many extra features and is (most of the time) lighter.

Whichever you choose, booth have flaws. For me desktop apps seems to be more stable and optimized. When you need better performance native desktop app kicks in!

I think it depends. It's nice to have the comfort to have everything in your browser, but usually the bigger apps, especially the complex ones, feel better on the app. The experience is smoother. For example I love that I can use Whatsapp on web, but with discord it feels more natural on the app, because it's more complex and the overall experience is better when you use more of its features.

Seems I'm one of the few to go with Web apps

For me it's Web all the way. I only have slack and Firefox on my start tab at work, but I do understand that for some specialized apps (CAD as an example) that is not possible.

Desktop, 100%. Take advantage of all hw resources, manage windows the way you want, update the app wgen you want or even have multiple versions, I could go on for days without even getting into the downsides of the browsers.

Prefer Web app most of the time - Desktop for Slack and Discord though. Really depends on the app I guess

Usually web apps unless I really really really love the product

Desktop apps are generally a little better in my experience, so that's the preference (I say, while being the marketer of an eBook web app...). But sometimes web apps are more convenient and it's easier to implement gentle hacks 🤔 Since you can use the browser for augmentations Really the most frustrating thing, web or desktop, is when there's no/limited offline support!

I prefer web app if links frequently shared from that tool. For example when someone shares a Notion link, I don’t want to go to browser first, then click on the browser popup to go to the desktop app. Otherwise I prefer Desktop apps.

As most of the time I will be using Desktops for work it makes it more convenient to use a desktop version. other reason BIG screen more visibility and ease of access.... 70% DESKTOP 30% MOBILE

Desktops apps, IF they are actually built for the desktop using the native frameworks. If it's an electron app, why even bother, juts open up the website which will consume less system resources.