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Deskifier for Bolt

Turn your Bolt app into a desktop app

Bolt.new gets you from idea to deployed web app in an afternoon. Deskifier takes that deployment the rest of the way: signed installers for Mac, Windows and Linux that your users download and keep.

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Bolt deploys to the web. Desktop is a separate job.

Bolt builds and runs your project in the browser and deploys it as a website. There’s no desktop target, and adding one yourself means leaving Bolt’s comfort zone:

  • Electron or Tauri, set up and kept current next to your app.
  • A build machine per OS, since Mac builds need a Mac to sign.
  • Certificates from Apple and a Windows signing service, plus notarisation.
  • An update server, so users aren’t stuck on the version they installed.

Deskifier does all of that around your deployed URL, so your project stays a normal Bolt project.

What your Bolt app gains

A real desktop window
Your own icon in the dock and taskbar, a designed titlebar, and no browser tabs or address bar around your product.
Always one click away
A tray or menu bar icon, background running after the window closes, and launch at login.
Native notifications
OS notifications your app can send while it’s closed to a tray icon, not browser pop-ups a user has to allow per site.
A JavaScript SDK
Files, global shortcuts, printing, deep links and window control on window.deskifier: easy for Bolt’s AI to write against.
Signed and notarised
Installers that open without Gatekeeper or SmartScreen warnings, signed by Deskifier for direct downloads.
App store builds
The Mac App Store, the Microsoft Store and the Snap Store, published under your own developer accounts.

Bolt app to desktop app in three steps

  1. 1
    Deploy from Bolt
    Deploy as usual and copy the live URL, on Bolt’s domain or your own.
  2. 2
    Configure the app
    Set the name, icon, window and tray behaviour in the Deskifier dashboard.
  3. 3
    Build installers
    Test with a free dev build, then build signed installers for all three desktops.

Frequently asked questions

No. Deskifier loads your deployed app like a browser would. You only touch your Bolt project if you want to call desktop features from its code.

Desktop users get the new version on their next load, because the app loads your live URL. You only rebuild the desktop app to change its shell: icon, menus or window settings.

Deskifier wraps web apps, so it’s the web build you deploy that becomes the desktop app. An Expo project works if you deploy its web version.

Yes. The app runs your site in Chromium with persistent storage, so auth, cookies and API calls behave as they do in Chrome, and sessions survive restarts.

Dev builds are free for Mac, Windows and Linux, no card required. You pay per platform when you ship to users.

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