I'm a big hater of Electron and everything that runs web inside of native containers (except web browsers).

The problem

The official Session Desktop app is an Electron app. Each update is about 200 MB, it uses a lot of RAM, it starts up very slow, poorly integrates with native features and just bad. Yuck.

The solution

I made a native Session client using SwiftUI and CoreData for macOS. It's more of a prototype but it works. The app size is about 2 MB but since I used JavaScript backend it added about 50 MB of Bun executable to the final app size. It was archived before I published it to App Store. The code is 100% open source and free to use.