Desktop Insights
Know what every desktop app is built with.
Binary analysis of 17,932+ macOS and Windows app bundles. The technographic data BuiltWith and Wappalyzer were never designed to capture.
Tracking the technology inside apps you know
Visual Studio Code
Slack
Figma
Discord
Spotify
Notion
Cursor
Claude
ChatGPT
Codex
1Password
Raycast
Linear
Arc
Zoom.us
Obsidian
Postman
Signal
Telegram
Firefox
VLC
HandBrake
Sublime TextVisual Studio CodeSlackFigmaDiscordSpotifyNotionCursorClaudeChatGPTCodex1PasswordRaycastLinearArcZoom.usObsidianPostmanSignalTelegramFirefoxVLCHandBrakeSublime TextSearch, monitor, and enrich. Extracted directly from desktop app binaries. First-party. Machine-verified.
Positive & Negative Search
Find all apps using Sentry. Or find the 14,174+ with no error tracking at all. Filter by technology, category, runtime, or gap.
Version-Level Dependencies
Electron 28.1.0, Sentry 7.92.0, React 18.2.0. Exact versions with confidence scores and detection source.
Change Alerts
Get notified when any app adds, drops, or upgrades a dependency. Catch displacement the day it ships.
CRM & Pipeline Enrichment
Flat sdkSummary fields drop into Clay, Apollo, and Salesforce. Turn desktop technology signals into qualified pipeline.
Security & Compliance
96.8% of macOS apps are code-signed. See hardened runtime, entitlements, and privacy manifests for any app.
REST API & Webhooks
Lookup, search, compare, trends, SBOM export. One credit per call. Build on top of the full dataset.
Who uses Desktop Insights?
Sales, security, research, and strategy teams use the same API for very different goals.
SDK Vendors & Sales Teams
97.2% of desktop apps have no analytics SDK. Find every app missing your category, pipe results into Clay, and build pipeline no one else can.
Security & Compliance Teams
59.6% of Electron apps run outdated versions. Track library versions, code signing, and privacy manifests across every app your organization deploys.
Investors & Analysts
Release cadence, dependency churn, framework migrations. Quantitative engineering signals from inside the binary. Development velocity as alternative data, straight from the source.
Developer Tools Companies
Electron powers 18.7% of all desktop apps. Size your market with extraction data, not developer surveys.