If you use a MacBook at home and a Windows PC at work, the first thing to ask of any app is whether it can come with you. That question separates Unite Pro from WebCatalog Desktop more than anything else.
Both turn a website into an app with its own window and icon, so Gmail or Notion stops being one tab among thirty. Unite Pro does it with great polish on the Mac, using Safari's engine. WebCatalog Desktop does it on Mac and Windows, using Chrome's engine, and lets one app hold several accounts.
At a glance
| WebCatalog Desktop | Unite Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | macOS, Windows, Linux | macOS only |
| Engine | Chromium, the engine behind Chrome and Edge | WebKit, the engine behind Safari |
| App catalog | 65,000+ apps, plus any website | Suggestions for popular sites, plus any URL |
| Multiple accounts | Every account signed in side by side in one app | One account per app |
| Organizing apps | Spaces that group apps and accounts in one window | One app per website |
| Window styles | Regular window, menu bar, or system tray | Regular window, menu bar, or sidebar |
| Extras | Ad and tracker blocker, custom CSS and JavaScript, app lock with Touch ID, cloud sync | Ad blocker, user scripts and styles, AI companions, meeting alerts |
What is WebCatalog Desktop?
WebCatalog Desktop makes desktop apps out of websites on Mac (one build for Intel and Apple Silicon), Windows, and Linux. Each app gets its own window, Dock or taskbar icon, and data, and your setup syncs, so the apps you add on one computer are waiting on the next.
What is Unite Pro?
Unite Pro by BZG is a Mac app that turns any website into a native-feeling Mac app using WebKit, Safari's engine. Apps can run in a regular window, from the menu bar, or as a sidebar, with an ad blocker, per-site permissions, user scripts and styles, and AI companions in the menu bar.
1. Your apps on every computer you use
Unite Pro is made for the Mac and requires a recent version of macOS. That's fine until part of your week happens somewhere else: a Windows laptop from your employer, or an older Mac you can't update. On those computers, your Unite apps aren't there.
WebCatalog Desktop runs on all three systems, and cloud sync carries your accounts list, folders, bookmarks, and settings between them. Set up your apps once on your Mac, sign in on your PC, and the same list appears.
2. Chrome's engine, not Safari's
Unite Pro's choice of WebKit keeps apps light and very Mac-like. The trade-off is that sites behave the way they do in Safari, while many web apps are built and tested mainly for Chrome. If a tool your team relies on works best in Chrome, that difference shows up every day.
WebCatalog Desktop runs every app on Chromium, the engine behind Chrome and Edge, so web apps behave the way their developers tested them. Password managers come along too: 1Password, Bitwarden, and LastPass work inside your apps, as does Dark Reader.
3. A work and a personal account in one app
In Unite Pro, each app runs isolated, so a second Gmail account means a second Gmail app, and two near-identical icons in your Dock.
In WebCatalog Desktop, one Gmail app can hold your work and personal accounts together, each with its own cookies and login, both signed in. They're listed in a sidebar with their own unread badges, and Cmd + 1 or Cmd + 2 switches between them. You can also make that app your default email client, so a "mailto" link opens there instead of in a browser.
4. A window for each client or project
Unite Pro stops at one app per website. WebCatalog Desktop adds spaces: a window for a client or project that holds all of its apps and accounts in a sidebar, with folders for longer lists. Each space has its own Dock icon and its own global keyboard shortcut, so you can bring up a client's Slack, Drive, and project tracker in one keystroke, and close all of it when the work is done.
5. Where they're alike
If you like Unite Pro's extras, much of it carries over. Unite's user scripts and styles have a counterpart in WebCatalog Desktop's custom CSS and JavaScript. Both block ads, and WebCatalog Desktop's blocker also stops trackers. Both can live in the menu bar. WebCatalog Desktop adds an app lock that uses Touch ID on Mac, which helps when a laptop is shared or left open.
Which one should you choose?
Unite Pro makes sense if you only ever use a Mac and specifically want apps built on Safari's engine.
Choose WebCatalog Desktop if you want:
- Your apps and setup on every computer you use, synced between them
- Web apps that behave as they do in Chrome, with your password manager inside
- A personal and a work account in the same app, both signed in
- A space per client that opens with its own shortcut
- A starting point in a catalog of more than 65,000 apps, with names and icons already filled in
Unite Pro is one of the most polished options for Mac users. If your apps need to follow you from one computer to the next, try WebCatalog Desktop.
