Desktop Startup Ideas

11 months ago

A platform for organizing and sharing events, with a mobile app and desktop version.

132

1 year ago

ShareWorks is a cloud-based tool for sharing media such as photos, music, and video. The startup also offers a paid-for mobile app as well as a desktop companion for editing and sharing.

113

1 year ago

A tablet organizer that aims to keep the iPad in sync with your desktop and other devices.

111

1 year ago

A platform that allows developers to take their app and run it via IP. It's aimed at mobile apps, but its founders say it can run desktop programs too.

98

1 year ago

A full-stack app development company that focuses on building apps for mobile, desktop, and web.

96

1 year ago

An ad tech company that’s building a new technology that they say has the potential to significantly change the way digital advertising is purchased and sold. The company’s technology has the potential to revolutionize the digital advertising market by giving advertisers complete control of their ad campaigns, directly from their desktop and mobile devices.

90

1 year ago

A startup looking to make the world’s best desktop security software, and taking advantage of the increasing need for it as the world becomes more connected.

89

10 months ago

A desktop-based tool for making mockups of websites and apps.

89

11 months ago

A cross-platform desktop application that allows users to log into their apps without their credentials and automatically logs them into their bank accounts. The startup is building the company off of Yodlee’s data and wants to build it further into apps like Facebook, Spotify, and others.

84

1 year ago

A desktop application that allows people to quickly and easily pay their bills, from utility companies to credit card companies.

83

1 year ago

A desktop app for managing and monitoring a corporate smartphone fleet.

82

1 year ago

A company that wants to help developers monetize their apps by bringing an app store to the desktop. The company wants to serve as a way to test and monetize apps across devices and platforms.

79

1 year ago

A new take on digital advertising that seeks to take over the desktop space. The founders say it’s the first product that can put advertising on every desktop screen. It’s also intended to be a “frictionless” experience for users, removing the need to navigate multiple ad networks or pay for ads.

79

1 year ago

A new product by the founders of a popular open-source project, allowing people to see all of their files on file servers and get them to sync with their desktop.

79

1 year ago

A tool for easily switching between Mac and Windows virtual desktops.

79

1 year ago

Rethinking the way we build and manage software is the goal of BuildZoom. The startup allows users to compare home improvements from a variety of vendors and service providers from the comfort of one website. It's an online marketplace that allows consumers to shop for home improvement projects from the convenience of a desktop computer or mobile phone. BuildZoom makes it easy to find the right contractor, and provides a level of transparency that other home improvement websites do not.

75

1 year ago

Open-source data visualization tool that connects together email, web, and desktop. It also integrates into Slack and other tools.

72

1 year ago

A desktop-based email client for journalists, connecting to their Gmail accounts, and using the same tools as their editors.

70

1 year ago

A “HR SaaS” for companies looking to manage employee training by creating custom courses, delivering them to an employee’s desktop, or by hooking up with an instructor.

69

1 year ago

An OS that uses Windows-style metaphors and a desktop-style interface to make it work like OSX, but with Windows-style applications.

67

1 year ago

Taking the speed and agility of the mobile web and developing a platform that can be used on any device, including desktops. The startup, which was started in 2013, is one of the few startups creating a truly mobile web application.

63

11 months ago

A startup that wants to bring Facebook Messenger-style voice calling to the desktop.

61

1 year ago

A startup that helps people manage their mobile phone and internet plans from their Macs and desktops.

60

1 year ago

A desktop app for managing staff schedules and expenses.

59

8 months ago

A lightweight, mobile app that allows you to work with the same notes across your phone and desktop, allowing you to sync them all to your Google Drive account.

59

10 months ago

A startup for finding and booking travel that uses a bank of 5,000 itineraries to provide personal customization. It’s in the phase of becoming a booking site, with a desktop app in development, and a plan to open it up to all users.

57

1 year ago

A post-production tool to help journalists and videographers manage their workflows. The startup hopes to launch a desktop app in the spring of 2019, and a web app in fall.

56

1 year ago

A tool for mobile, web, and desktop developers to build mobile and desktop apps that can be accessed locally or remotely.

51

1 year ago

A startup focused on user-friendly music discovery. The startup wants to create a desktop experience around music discovery that will allow users to browse and listen to songs, and also see what others are listening to.

50

1 year ago

This startup is building a tool for employees to manage their time with a SaaS product, with a mobile app and desktop software.

43

1 year ago

A startup that’s working to bring mobile-first design to the web. The company’s founder says that on desktop, responsive websites are too complex and hard to work with. On mobile, the opposite is true: sites are too simple and often hard to use. Sway is working to change that with a product that uses all the same features on mobile as it does on desktop.

42

9 months ago

A cloud-based tool for sales teams to manage their campaigns and follow-up tasks. What’s unusual is that it’s cross-platform, available on desktop, mobile, and web.

41

10 months ago

This startup is building a tool that lets people create websites in the cloud, and then upload them for companies to access with specific functions by using a mobile app or desktop.

40

10 months ago

“A desktop-based tool for managing and reporting on commercial printing jobs”, this startup is developing a software tool for printing and printing services firms that are based on solid data science.

39

10 months ago

A workplace chat solution that syncs your calendar and files from your desktop or mobile devices to your corporate network.

39

6 months ago

A desktop app for managing files. If you’ve ever tried to find a file on your Mac, you’ll probably agree that it’s a pain.

39

10 months ago

A startup that makes a tool for developers to manage development processes from their desktops

34

4 months ago

A startup that can send virtual reality and web-based experiences to a mobile VR headset like Samsung’s Gear VR, and a separate service for desktop VR.

28

3 months ago

This startup is building a tool for sharing an avatar between multiple users, so that people can see their friends and family from their phone and desktop.

26

3 months ago

A desktop-based platform for visualizing data science models.

26

4 months ago

A platform that helps organizations plan, take, and share notes on a computer running Linux. Comes with a desktop app and mobile app so you can do all your note-taking on the go.

23

5 months ago

Redis Labs is building a way to have a single point of access to a user’s data, whether it be from a web browser, mobile phone, or desktop computer.

22

5 months ago

A desktop application that allows you to easily create custom, clickable images for social media platforms, which you can share out to the web or your email or SMS.

20

3 months ago

A decentralized trading platform for digital currencies, built on blockchain technology. It aims to make the digital asset exchange process easy and secure. The company is currently developing a desktop app for the blockchain and is in talks with the US Securities and Exchange Commission about getting listed on a US exchange.

20

2 months ago

A startup that is building a “utility-grade” PC with a “desktop-grade” price to bring desktop computers to emerging markets.

20

5 months ago

A startup that builds a desktop app for easy online ordering of items from any online retailer. They claim to be in talks with Amazon, Walmart, and Target to bring the app to all of their customers.

19

4 months ago

A digital appointment calendar within your phone, which they say is better than a paper or desktop calendar.

16

3 months ago

A startup that helps people organize their online data in an easy, searchable manner. Available for both desktop and mobile.

16

22 days ago

A desktop application that provides a user-friendly interface for creating, editing, and sharing scripts for YouTube videos.

16

6 months ago

This is an email-based application that allows users to create personalized desktop and mobile app experiences.

15

2 months ago

An intuitive, desktop-based app that allows a restaurant to manage their menu items and ingredients. The startup gets data from local grocery stores, which it then uses to create an automated interface where a person can have a single, intuitive experience to search for a new dish at a restaurant using their phone.

12

1 year ago

Idea: A startup helping businesses in emerging markets manage inventory and orders using a mobile app and a desktop dashboard. The founders say they’ve already signed more than 50 customers in the past month (and have been accepted to Y Combinator,) and that the business has been profitable since it launched at the end of May.

2

1 year ago

Idea: A startup that wants to bring the same kind of advertising tools that have become standard for desktop to mobile, and allow marketers to bid and test ads in real time

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1 year ago

Idea: A solution for managing a company’s video streaming infrastructure. The first product is a video player that allows companies to put videos on their website and have them work on desktops and mobile devices.

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1 year ago

Idea: A desktop software platform that helps companies design and build enterprise apps. The startup’s first customer is a large construction company, and it’s currently building a SaaS product that helps developers quickly build enterprise apps.

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Desktop Startup Ideas

A platform for organizing and sharing events, with a mobile app and desktop version.

ShareWorks is a cloud-based tool for sharing media such as photos, music, and video. The startup also offers a paid-for mobile app as well as a desktop companion for editing and sharing.

A tablet organizer that aims to keep the iPad in sync with your desktop and other devices.

A platform that allows developers to take their app and run it via IP. It's aimed at mobile apps, but its founders say it can run desktop programs too.

A full-stack app development company that focuses on building apps for mobile, desktop, and web.

A startup looking to make the world’s best desktop security software, and taking advantage of the increasing need for it as the world becomes more connected.

A desktop-based tool for making mockups of websites and apps.

A cross-platform desktop application that allows users to log into their apps without their credentials and automatically logs them into their bank accounts. The startup is building the company off of Yodlee’s data and wants to build it further into apps like Facebook, Spotify, and others.

A desktop application that allows people to quickly and easily pay their bills, from utility companies to credit card companies.

A desktop app for managing and monitoring a corporate smartphone fleet.

A company that wants to help developers monetize their apps by bringing an app store to the desktop. The company wants to serve as a way to test and monetize apps across devices and platforms.

A new product by the founders of a popular open-source project, allowing people to see all of their files on file servers and get them to sync with their desktop.

A tool for easily switching between Mac and Windows virtual desktops.

Open-source data visualization tool that connects together email, web, and desktop. It also integrates into Slack and other tools.

A desktop-based email client for journalists, connecting to their Gmail accounts, and using the same tools as their editors.

A “HR SaaS” for companies looking to manage employee training by creating custom courses, delivering them to an employee’s desktop, or by hooking up with an instructor.

An OS that uses Windows-style metaphors and a desktop-style interface to make it work like OSX, but with Windows-style applications.

Taking the speed and agility of the mobile web and developing a platform that can be used on any device, including desktops. The startup, which was started in 2013, is one of the few startups creating a truly mobile web application.

A startup that wants to bring Facebook Messenger-style voice calling to the desktop.

A startup that helps people manage their mobile phone and internet plans from their Macs and desktops.

A desktop app for managing staff schedules and expenses.

A lightweight, mobile app that allows you to work with the same notes across your phone and desktop, allowing you to sync them all to your Google Drive account.

A startup for finding and booking travel that uses a bank of 5,000 itineraries to provide personal customization. It’s in the phase of becoming a booking site, with a desktop app in development, and a plan to open it up to all users.

A post-production tool to help journalists and videographers manage their workflows. The startup hopes to launch a desktop app in the spring of 2019, and a web app in fall.

A tool for mobile, web, and desktop developers to build mobile and desktop apps that can be accessed locally or remotely.

A startup focused on user-friendly music discovery. The startup wants to create a desktop experience around music discovery that will allow users to browse and listen to songs, and also see what others are listening to.

This startup is building a tool for employees to manage their time with a SaaS product, with a mobile app and desktop software.

A cloud-based tool for sales teams to manage their campaigns and follow-up tasks. What’s unusual is that it’s cross-platform, available on desktop, mobile, and web.

This startup is building a tool that lets people create websites in the cloud, and then upload them for companies to access with specific functions by using a mobile app or desktop.

“A desktop-based tool for managing and reporting on commercial printing jobs”, this startup is developing a software tool for printing and printing services firms that are based on solid data science.

A workplace chat solution that syncs your calendar and files from your desktop or mobile devices to your corporate network.

A desktop app for managing files. If you’ve ever tried to find a file on your Mac, you’ll probably agree that it’s a pain.

A startup that makes a tool for developers to manage development processes from their desktops

A startup that can send virtual reality and web-based experiences to a mobile VR headset like Samsung’s Gear VR, and a separate service for desktop VR.

This startup is building a tool for sharing an avatar between multiple users, so that people can see their friends and family from their phone and desktop.

A desktop-based platform for visualizing data science models.

A platform that helps organizations plan, take, and share notes on a computer running Linux. Comes with a desktop app and mobile app so you can do all your note-taking on the go.

Redis Labs is building a way to have a single point of access to a user’s data, whether it be from a web browser, mobile phone, or desktop computer.

A desktop application that allows you to easily create custom, clickable images for social media platforms, which you can share out to the web or your email or SMS.

A startup that is building a “utility-grade” PC with a “desktop-grade” price to bring desktop computers to emerging markets.

A startup that builds a desktop app for easy online ordering of items from any online retailer. They claim to be in talks with Amazon, Walmart, and Target to bring the app to all of their customers.

A digital appointment calendar within your phone, which they say is better than a paper or desktop calendar.

A startup that helps people organize their online data in an easy, searchable manner. Available for both desktop and mobile.

A desktop application that provides a user-friendly interface for creating, editing, and sharing scripts for YouTube videos.

This is an email-based application that allows users to create personalized desktop and mobile app experiences.

Idea: A startup that wants to bring the same kind of advertising tools that have become standard for desktop to mobile, and allow marketers to bid and test ads in real time

Idea: A solution for managing a company’s video streaming infrastructure. The first product is a video player that allows companies to put videos on their website and have them work on desktops and mobile devices.

Idea: A desktop software platform that helps companies design and build enterprise apps. The startup’s first customer is a large construction company, and it’s currently building a SaaS product that helps developers quickly build enterprise apps.