Standalone App

[sbehrends]

Describe the solution you'd like

Have anyone consider building Memos as a cross-platform standalone application?

A privacy-first, lightweight note-taking service. Easily capture and share your great thoughts.

This statement sounds great, but self-hosting could still be a challenge for some users.

It would be neat to have a simple local application installed that can support any user, and really scale up Memos usage.

Wails seems to be a solution that could be a perfect fit, since it allows a backend run in Go (same language as this service backend), and Frontend with React. Finally it can be compiled and distributed for Mac/Linux/Windows.

Any thoughts?

Type of feature

Other

Additional context

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[MehadND]

@sbehrends if I'm not wrong there are already apps on different platforms, such as For Desktop & Mac

and pretty sure there is an android and ios app too.

do you mean something like this or do you wish to have an official app for each platform?

[sbehrends]

I was thinking as an official app for the platform.

Would be single-user only, no docker, no cloud. Just local sqlite, using same backend in Go, and same UI, but with slightly different bundling.

memos-desktop sounds like the project, but does not seem to be updated (according to issue reported and last commit a month ago). That repo seems to use Electron, and not sure how it handles the backend, seems to have the binary of memos inside. I tried to download it but I only get a white screen.

Wails supports Go out of the box for the backend, so it could even compile memos source code.

[MehadND]

does it also supports android & ios build?

[sbehrends]

It does not

Supported Platforms Windows 10/11 AMD64/ARM64 MacOS 10.13+ AMD64 MacOS 11.0+ ARM64 Linux AMD64/ARM64

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