latin-programmer / google-voice-desktop-app

An electron shell wrapper around the google voice website

Why

We are annoyed at the lack of desktop app for voice, like hangouts had.

What does it do

It just lets you keep voice open without a chrome browser. It will also check the dom for notifications and display a badge in the task bar and closing the app will send it to a tray instead of closing.

Supported Operating Systems

This is a fork of the original repo. This fork is currently maintained for Windows only and still accepts PRs and is being updated.

The Original Repo supports both OSX, Windows 10 & Linux.

Questions? Ideas? Join us in discord https://discord.gg/3SSS6vkKET

Installation

Releases Page

For Mac and Linux support, you can use an older version of the app (the original) at: Releases Page and download the release for your OS. In the original version, simply uzip and drag into the applications folder (mac) or run the executable (windows) or run the app image (ubuntu)

Mac Note: The mac version is unsigned, so you will have to click "Open Anyway" after running, or go to Settings > Security & Privacy > General > Open Anyway. The original author did not want to pay for a dev license just for this

Linux Note: You will have to make the AppImage executable in order to run it. Right Click > Properties > Permissions > Allow Executing file as a program

Customize

You can change settings, apply themes and other things in the customization page. Go to Electron > Settings on Mac in the global menu bar, or File > Settings on windows. If you've hidden the menu bar you can also access the settings from the system tray.

Windows Settings

Mac Settings

System Tray Settings

Themes

The latest version now supports custom themes, which can be set in the Settings dialog.

Not only themes but also a system for themeing! If you want to create your own theme and contribute back to the project you can do that here.

Run From Source

git clone [email protected]:latin-programmer/google-voice-desktop-app.git

npm install -g yarn

yarn install

yarn start

To build yourself you can run yarn run build:windows or yarn run build:mac or yarn run build:linux

Note: the current maintainer is only able to do windows builds. If you would like, you can review what is needed for the mac and linux versions and help out with those (basically, for mac you need a Mac, and for Linux you need a Linux VM).

Screenshots

Main window:

Dracula theme:

Solar theme:

Minty theme:

Cerulean theme:

Attributions

• Jerrkawz, who did almost 100% of the work for the original app: https://github.com/Jerrkawz/google-voice-desktop-app/
• Dracula: https://github.com/dracula/dracula-theme
• Solar / Minty / Cerulean: https://bootswatch.com/