Applications using WebKit/GTK+
This is a list of applications known to be using WebKit/GTK+.
Browsers
All the browsers in this list use WebKit at the core of the application, unless otherwise stated.
Epiphany - GNOME
- Open Source
Element Browser - Element Software LLC
- Freeware
- MS-Windows, Mac (Universal Binary)
Element Browser is a stylistic, modern and powerful web browser. It features unmatched security, an intuitive user interface and great features.
Midori
- Open Source
Kazehakase
- Open Source
- Supports WebKit/Gecko
WebKit EAL - Maemo
- Open Source(?)
- For mobile devices
WebKit EAL (repository has gone non-public)
Web Browser - OpenMoko
- Open Source
- For mobile devices
surf by suckless.org
- Open Source (MIT)
- Links against webkitgtk
- Minimalistic
- webkit2gtk version under development
Web - Poky Linux
- Open Source
- For mobile devices
Skipstone
- Open Source
- Supports WebKit/Gecko
OLPC Sugar Browse activity
- Open Source
- For mobile devices
DeforaOS Surfer
- Open Source
- Supports WebKit, Gecko, GtkHtml
- Features a variant for mobile devices
http://www.defora.org/os/project/340/Surfer
Widget Toolkits
SeedKit
http://live.gnome.org/SeedKit/
As a developer, SeedKit gives you a way to define you UI in pure standard web technologies (as supported by WebKit) bound to pure GObject/DBus symbols as exposed by Seed.
Pyjamas Desktop
PyjamasDesktop provides a simpler and more powerful alternative to python-wxWidgets, PyGtk2 and PyQt4. PyWebkitGtk is the current basis for PyjamasDesktop.
SWT
SWT is the Eclipse project's widget toolkit, and can be used by anyone to build java apps with native platform integration. As of Eclipse 3.7 the SWT Browser control embeds WebKitGtk as its native renderer.
E-Mail Clients
Claws Mail
- Open Source
- WebKit support available as a plug-in
tinymail UI library
- Open Source
- Library toolkit for building mail clients
Tinymail, libtinymailui-webkit
Evolution - GNOME
- Open Source
- Experimental WebKit support (patch, not yet merged)
Balsa
- Open Source
- WebKit support includes text search, printing, and user control of image downloads
Postler
- Open Source
- WebKit is used for rendering and composing messages
Language bindings
Ok, those are not exactly applications, but can be used to build them.
Python bindings
http://live.gnome.org/PyWebKitGtk
Vala bindings
Perl bindings
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Gtk2-WebKit/
C++ / gtkmm bindings
git clone git clone http://www.gnome.org/~jjongsma/git/webkitmm.git/
Ruby bindings
http://github.com/russ/rbwebkitgtk/tree/master
Instant Messenger/Chat Clients
All Instant Messenger and Chat clients in this section use WebKit to render and style messages, unless otherwise stated. This allows messages to be styled using a stylesheet language such as CSS. This enables customised message layout to be developed easily using web technology, without touching a line of code in the application.
Pidgin
- Open Source
- Experimental WebKit support (not yet merged)
Galaxium
- Open Source
- Uses webkit-sharp
Gwibber
- Open Source
- Microblogging client for GNOME developed with Python and GTK
- Experimental WebKit support
Empathy
- Open Source
- Uses the telepathy framework
- Experimental WebKit support to render Adium themes (not yet merged)
RSS Readers
All the RSS Readers in this section use WebKit to display the news summaries, and the full articles that the RSS feeds link to.
Feed Reader - OpenMoko
- Open Source
- For mobile devices
Liferea
- Open Source
- Supports WebKit/Gecko/GtkHtml
Straw - GNOME
- Open Source
Evolution RSS Reader Plugin
- Open Source
- Supports WebKit/Gecko
http://gnome.eu.org/index.php/Evolution_RSS_Reader_Plugin
NewsKit
- Open Source
- Uses webkit-sharp
Blam
- Open Source
- Uses webkit-sharp
Help Viewers
All applications in this section use WebKit to display HTML based help files.
Devhelp - GNOME
- Open Source
Yelp - GNOME
- Open Source
- Experimental WebKit support (SVN branch, not yet merged)
monodoc - Mono
- Open Source
- Supports WebKit/Gecko/GtkHtml
ilcontrast - Mono
- Open Source
GIMP (Help viewer)
- Open Source
Kiosk software
All the browsers in this list use http://webkitgtk.org/ at the core of the application, unless otherwise stated.
Webconverger for Rpi2
- Opensource
- Based on http://archlinuxarm.org/ & uses http://surf.suckless.org/
- https://webconverger.org/rpi2
Media players
Rhythmbox
- Open Source
- Experimental WebKit support (patch, not yet merged)
MPX
- Open Source
Banshee
- Open Source
- Experimental WebKit support (patch, not yet merged)
Media center
Clutter
Rich OpenGL UI platform.
- Open Source
- Experimental WebKit support
Other
Conduit - GNOME
- Open Source
- Synchronization framework
RedNotebook
- Open Source
- RedNotebook is a graphical diary and journal to keep track of notes and thoughts throughout the day.
