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Good point! The tricky thing is that even desktop apps today tend to have online backends to store data and analytics. So it would be a matter of building/searching for apps that are 100% local.

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Thats why I decided to build my own. My bookmark manager is 100% local. It even caches pages I bookmark using chrome headless. The data is stored in a sqlite file which I can sync using Dropbox, Syncthing, etc if I use multiple computers.

Why not hosting it on some cheap hosting if you are already using PHP?

(I also build an app which is basically bookmark manager and it's based on PHP and SQLite.)

This is on the assumption I want to host it online. I don't want the task to maintain a web server and pay for its cost. I just want to be able to it use it locally. I want to be able to send it to a family/friend and they can run it themselves.

that would need the internet, kinda defeating the point no?

AFAIK, dropbox also needs the internet to work, doesn't it?

But you don’t need the internet to work at the same time as you use the local application with the data previously synced via Dropbox. Of course, in the case of a bookmark manager, the usefulness is limited when the internet isn’t working. :)

I only mentioned dropbox if I wanted to sync my database on multiple computers. I don't need to, so I don't need dropbox.

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