Aeion Desktop vs Standard Web Apps
Discover why power users and operational teams are abandoning flat single-page applications and heavy Electron downloads for a true, windowed OS experience directly in the browser.
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Decisive Architectural Advantages
The End of Tab Fatigue
Modern SaaS forces you into a single view. If you need to look at an invoice while replying to a customer ticket, you have to open a new browser tab, wait for the app to boot, and navigate back down the tree. Aeion Desktop lets you run the Finance and Helpdesk modules in overlapping, resizable windows inside the same browser tab, just like macOS.
Superior to Electron
Why not just build a desktop app? Electron apps require users to download 150MB binaries, bypass IT security constraints, and constantly run updaters. Aeion Desktop delivers the exact same windowed multitasking experience, but it lives entirely on the web. A zero-install, instantly updated OS.
Perfect Layout Recall
You spend 10 minutes every morning arranging your browser tabs perfectly across your monitors. When the browser crashes, you start over. Aeion Desktop's "Workspaces" capture the exact position, stacking order, and open views of every window, persisting them safely to survive any crash.
Deep Contextual IPC
If you have Jira open in one tab and Salesforce in another, they are structurally blind to each other. Because Aeion Desktop windows run in the same memory sandbox, they communicate natively. Drag a file from the Files module and drop it into a Chat module window flawlessly.
Where Standard Web Apps & Electron Still Win
An honest comparison names the trade-offs. A browser-hosted windowed desktop isn't the right answer for every workflow:
Frequently Asked Questions
No. The Window Manager acts as a higher-order wrapper. It simply intercepts your existing React Router views and renders them inside a floating DOM node instead of the main content area. All your existing modules run flawlessly without modification.
The Desktop module detects screen real estate dynamically. If a user logs in from an iPhone, the Window Manager gracefully degrades. Floating windows become full-screen, stackable cards, ensuring the interface remains usable on touch devices.
No. The session persists continuously to the browser's local storage — window positions, sizes, stacking order, active workspace, virtual desktops, and pinned apps — so a reload or crash restores you to exactly where you left off, no manual save required.
Saved Workspaces sync to your account, so a named layout — up to 30 windows, each remembering its title, icon, module view, position, size, and stacking order — travels across machines and survives a browser reinstall. The live, moment-to-moment session is local to the browser you're in; promote it to a Workspace to make it portable.
Nine window states: normal (freely draggable), minimized, maximized, snapped-left and snapped-right halves, and four snapped corners (each a quarter of the screen). Drag a window toward a screen edge or corner to snap it into place; drag it away to return to its previous floating size.
No. Aeion Desktop is zero-install and always current — it runs in the browser tab you're already in, with no 150MB download, no IT-managed binary, and no background updater to babysit.