WebCatalog is a tool to easily create desktop apps from websites. It's an awesome tool, but the free version (Basic account) limits you to 5 apps.
However, I came up with a simple workaround to trick WebCatalog into letting you install as many apps as you want:
All WebCatalog apps are stored at %LocalAppData%\Programs\WebCatalogApps
.
On startup, WebCatalog makes a list of your installed apps by looking at this folder.
If we make it so WebCatalog cannot find this folder, it won't think we have any apps installed, and it will let us install more.
This is pretty easy to do, but here's a step-by-step guide:
- Rename the
%LocalAppData%\Programs\WebCatalogApps
folder toWebCatalogApps1
(or whatever else you want to rename it to). - Restart WebCatalog.
- WebCatalog should now let you install up to 5 more apps.
As you install your additional apps, WebCatalog should recreate the
%LocalAppData%\Programs\WebCatalogApps
folder and add the apps to it. - Close WebCatalog.
- Copy all the apps you've just installed - the
WebCatalogApps
folder's contents - from theWebCatalogApps
folder to the renamedWebCatalogApps1
folder. - Delete the
WebCatalogApps
folder. - Repeat steps 2 to 6 until you've installed all the apps you want.
- Rename your renamed
WebCatalogApps1
folder back toWebCatalogApps
. - Restart WebCatalog again
If you are using Windows (idk about other operating systems), the shortcuts may bug out and lose their icons. This will affect desktop icons, taskbar icons, WebCatalog's Installed
section, etc. This should fix itself upon rebooting; however, if you want to do it manually, you can reinstall all your apps, which will fix the icons. To do this, open WebCatalog and go to the Installed
tab, then click the 3 dots menu and select Reinstall (Repair)
for each app:
In this screenshot, my Google Drive app's icon was not corrupted. The point of this screenshot is just to show where the aforementioned button is.
I hope this worked for you! If you have any questions or need help, feel free to leave a comment.
Makes sense. I'll have to check this out, but I assume it's pretty simple - my guess is that each subspace has its own folder, just like the main apps have their
WebCatalogApps
folder. You should be able to follow the same trick using whatever folder the subspace apps are stored in.You can probably find what folder your subspace apps are stored in by creating an app within the subspace and finding the location of the app's executable file. On windows you can open the file a shortcut points to (go to the shortcut you open the app from in your file explorer - if it's on your desktop, just right-click the icon on the desktop itself) and click "open file location." If it points to another shortcut, repeat for that shortcut. When you get to the app's executable (
.exe
) file, this should be the folder where the apps are stored,