I Made a Mac Native Excalidraw (Open Sourced)
Details
- External ID
- 48807479
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I Made a Mac Native Excalidraw (Open Sourced)
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5418160095579451
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- native desktop apps and utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- native mac drawing application
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The project packages the open-source Excalidraw web library into a native macOS desktop wrapper using Swift/WKWebView or Tauri/Electron.
Discussion
10 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Excalidraw, Electron-based apps
Concerns raised: 100% compatibility with Excalidraw unclear, Gap between features and Excalidraw will take time to bridge
Feature requests: Dedicated undo/redo button in UI, Clarify terminal icon functionality
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 487 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #236 of 488 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 246 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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