welcome everybody to techcraft this is rob and in today's video i'm going to show you how you can turn any website into an app on your mac let's go okay so i'm going to show you two options the first option is using an app called fluid and with fluid you can create an app from a website for free but you can't make that app full screen if you pay them five dollars you can make it full screen the second option i'll show you is using an app called coherence x coherence is like i think it's like 25 if you buy it on its own but it does come included in setup which i'll talk a little bit about and with coherence you can make the app full screen and stuff so let's dive straight in so i'm here on the fluid website and you can just download it from here but i'm going to install this using homebrew if you haven't used homebrew before please do check out my video on that linked above so i can just do brew install fluid okay and with fluid installed let's just start it up and this is the window you get when fluid pops up it just asks you for the url of the website you want the name of the app that's going to be created where you want to put this and what icon you want to use so i don't want to create an app for netflix which is https slash www.netflix.com i'm going to call it netflix i don't want to put it on the desktop you want to put it in my applications folder where all my other applications are so i'm just going to browse to that just choose applications from the side here fantastic and i'm just going to leave it using the favicon from the website you can actually obviously specify your own icon if you want but the website fabicon will be fine then click create fantastic i can now launch this and i'll get my netflix app and there we go i'm going to show you that i've got this working and if i try to make it full screen it won't work as i mentioned and you can just pay the five dollars via paypal but it's quite nice and if i shut that down um quit netflix and if i just try to use uh spotlight there is netflix as an app and it launches it's really really elegant let's now see what this would be like if we use coherence x and what it looks like if you make a full screen app so i've installed coherence using an app called setup and so setup's kind of like a subscription service for other apps it's ten dollars a month and you get there's at least 50 apps on there i'm using maybe i don't know 15 20 of them on a regular basis and some of them like coherence are like 25 dollars if you get them uh you know one by one but the subscription is great i actually have a free account that's supplied by work but i bought my own personal account as well it's not sponsored by set up i don't even know the team at all but it's a great great thing you should get it right so here i am in my setup and i've got coherence installed i'm going to click open bring me to my coherence window and what's nice is there's already a set of kind of like default apps you can install just to kind of get familiar with how this works uh definitely don't install the amazon one unless you want to waste all your money um create application and similar kind of thing to fluid we're gonna do netflix and we're disney plus this time actually disney plus what's the website address it is https www.disney.disneyplus.com it's going to go into applications by default you can see actually this just kind of pulled in the icon from the website click next you can choose which browser engine you want to use it does support chrome and brave i think maybe even firefox but definitely chrome and braille i'm just going to use the chrome that i've got installed on my my machine click next because chrome is quite a complex beast you can choose which person you want this is quite nice if you want to kind of create an app for your online banking you have a profile with your online banking password it's going to link to your chrome and everything and then it will create a an app just around that identity i just want to use an anonymous identity for this so that's fine create application and give it a few seconds and away we go right there is my disney app is running and i can press launch it now and you know the fact that i need to update my chrome i've got a working disney plus app and if i press the full screen now we get full screen disney plus okay just a really quick video today i'm gonna do a few more of these kind of quick tips and tricks videos try to publish one maybe every week or every two weeks hope you find it useful if so please hit like please hit subscribe and i'll see you in the next video thanks for watching