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by Shadonototro 1882 days ago
67mb vs 168mb on windows

Why the difference?

Why so big for such simple app?

Electron?

2 comments

For mac it is Electron - and it is just sad. Such simple app can be done in plain Cocoa after taking 8 hour course in Objective-C or even Swift and will probably take <5 MB. Difference in size is probably just compression ratio of distribution file.

There dozens lightweight alternatives to this https://alternativeto.net/software/workrave/

Thank you for saving my time and data.