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n8n desktop app - Powerful low code workflows on your desktop

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n8n is the automation platform you never outgrow. With it, you can create complex workflows, insert code snippets where needed, and stay in control by auditing the source code and storing data locally. Our desktop app can be installed with just a few clicks.

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Congratulations for the initiative, excited with so many good news about this incredible tool. This will certainly contribute to the popularization of n8n, I've already released the news to my network here in Brazil.
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Thank you very much for you support and helping with growing the n8n community in Brazil!
Amazing work and the whole n8n team! This makes n8n even more powerful 💪!
Super cool, we. love using this!
Maker
That is great to hear! Keep on having fun with n8n!
Since I discovered n8n, I replaced so many tedious scripts with no-code workflows, for example for data analytics and processing pipelines. Now the desktop app makes everything even easier! Thanks and the n8n team!
I have been using n8n for a while already and this product will make my life even easier. Docker setup is fine but it requires some maintenance. Way to go n8n! Amazing job!
No-code automation is the next big thing. Soon it will be common to each of us the way online shopping or using our smartphones for navigation is right now. n8n is well on the path of making it free and accessible to anybody. Self-hosting and local deployment was easy before, but required access to the command line and knowledge of Docker. With the desktop app, ease of access to this great tech is improved even further. Really amazing!
Maker
Thanks a lot for your support! We also hope that automation becomes much more mainstream and we are working every day to make that happen!
Great to see the desktop version live! Is the desktop version wrapper around the web or is it build from scratch, would be cool to know the tech stack.
Maker
Thanks! The code of all our versions are identical. So n8n Desktop is more or less default n8n wrapped with Electron and some tweaks to make it run in there properly.
Sounds amazing. I love the selfhosted version. Need to try this!
Maker
I hope you do! And please provide feedback, always eager to learn how to improve.
Actually I just installed it to check. I saw that I can read / write files, but is it possibble to execute script locally or command lines?
Maker
Yes, that is possible with the Execute Command Node ().
Honestly, I love . But the more I work with , the more it's becoming my default – especially when it is easier to use Javascript.
Maker
Then hope with the other updates we have planned the next months we are able to convince you switch totally ;-)
We currently use integromat - how is n8n different? Maybe I misunderstand the product but it looks like a Zapier-type workflow automation tool.
I'd say n8n is more akin to Integromat than Zapier, but more powerful for tech-savvy folks. At a high level, n8n let’s you stay closer to the data in your flow - for me, it’s more intuitive. Here’s an example: the Jira node’s “Get all tickets” outputs an array of tickets in JSON format - each of these are considered an “item” in n8n (any top-level element in that output array is an “item”). By default, each node performs it’s operation on each item of input data. So when I route that Jira node output into a Trello node set up to “Add card to board”, each Jira ticket is added to Trello automatically. There’s no “loop” step - it’s just built into n8n’s take on automation. A lot of the workflow experience feels like that - it’s designed around you efficiently working with data and abstracting away the 😠 😤 steps like auth, boilerplate code... or banging your head over a crappy API doc for hours. On top of that, the Merge node is super powerful for 2-way syncs and I don’t believe Integromat has this. You can also self-host it for free, or use cloud product. I use cloud, and my flows would cost more on Integromat and a lot more on Zapier.
Thanks Max, this was super enlightening! I'll keep this in mind
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