Fluid

Fluid

Turn your favorite web apps into real Mac apps.

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Web applications like Gmail, Facebook, Campfire and Pandora are becoming more and more like desktop applications every day. Running each of these web apps in a separate tab in your browser can be a real pain. Fluid lets you create a Real Mac App (or "Fluid App") out of any website or web application, effectively turning your favorite web apps into OS X desktop apps.
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Chris Yin
Longtime Fluid user. Asana, Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Jira....so awesome. Now if only they upgraded to a new version of Safari.......:)
Todd Ditchendorf
Vintage
Maker
@chriseyin Hey there, developer of Fluid here. First, thanks! Also: Fluid doesn't use Safari, but it *does* use the same rendering engine (WebKit from Apple). Fluid uses the version of WebKit installed on your Mac – the same version of WebKit used by Safari. So Fluid will always be using the latest stable version of WebKit, just like Safari. No need to update Fluid for this.
Kishore
OurMix
@itod @chriseyin Todd, thanks for creating fluid. I saw your comment. So, why does Google Inbox work in Safari but not Fluid?
Eli Katz
@itod @chriseyin wish we could install some useful chrome extensions - would complete my fluid nirvana. . .
Krishan Gupta
@itod I tried sending a fluid app to another Mac. Doesn't work. Any advice? These things would go massively viral if you could share.
Ryan Gum
Teachable
My favourite use case: Fluid + Trello Takes Trello out of your normal browser (amongst 14 tabs and 3 windows), and gives it it's own spot in your dock.
Eli Katz
@ryangum downside of using fluid with trello is losing all the functionality provided the many extensions out there (ultimello & add to trell - my most used). otherwise, I have about a dozen "apps" i sued exclusively with fluid.
David Chase
This app has been around for a while, its pretty sweet though
Ryan Hoover
Product Hunt
@davidchase03 true, this is an oldie but surprisingly a lot of people don't know about Fluid. It's used often for creating a "gmail app" to separate personal and work emails more easily.
Adrian Phillips
@rrhoover had no idea this existed so very glad @KEVINgotbounce posted this. This is why I come to Product Hunt, I have a problem and nearly 99% of the time there's a product here that solves it (even older ones). Just the other day I had SoundCloud up and running in one of my 10+ Chrome tabs and really wished there was an OS X app for it as I tend to have an itchy CMD+W finger. Easiest $4.99 I've spent this week.
Thomas Knoll
This app (these apps) get even better when you pair it with Choosy, a default browser app that hijacks every URL, and sends certain URL patterns to specific browsers. Because of that, I have a fluid app for almost every single web app that use on a weekly basis (angellist, dashboard.io, ello, gcal, growthhackers, hackernews, hackpad, inbound, intercom, launchticker, linkedin, mattermark, medium, pivotal, producthunt, quibb, relateIQ, trello, etc.) Any any link I click in any other app or browser that goes to any of those pages, opens in that specific browser. Which also means that I only have 2 or 3 tabs open in my browser at any time. ;)
ruslaniv

This used to be one of my most used apps, still is to some extent, I use it for some web apps. But very unfortunately the dev abandoned it. Although the website says nothing of the fact, I think just one update was posted for the last couple of years and several emails with support questions / request remained ignored.

Pros:

Super useful app, can wrap many webapps, very easy to use, very stable

Cons:

Abandonware, (almost) no updates, dev ignores emails from paid customer

Kevin Mandeville
Litmus
Hunter
If you're willing to spend the $5 for the premium version of the app, I love being able to pin apps to the status bar and editing the CSS for certain apps so I can control the visual look and feel. Highly recommend it.
Bernhard Huessy

one app; that gives you the feeling of a nativ OSX app for each webpage you use, freedom of multitasking and extremely resource preservative. Who needs thanksgiving if you can download Fluid. @Fluid, many many thanks on a daily base actually.

Pros:

everything about the simplicity

Cons:

I did try hard, very hard, there is nooooothing out-there to outrun Fluid...

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