Station - One app to rule them all

I absolutely love Station and how fast it is. I'm using it on a midrange laptop with Windows, but seeing that it doesn't support Ubuntu or any other Linux distro is really disappointing. I use Ubuntu for those more demanding progamming tasks which usually require a good app for multitasking, and Station would be THE PERFECT fit.

Since this was built with Electron (a JS framework for building cross platform apps), I expected Linux support from day 1.

I'll definitely continue using Station, as I'm very positive about it, and I am expecting to see Linux support very quickly!

Pros:

The design, speed, reliability

Cons:

Cross platform support

Very happily surprised! A nice workflow tool. Franz for messaging and Station for everything else is now my go-to. A trivial feature ask though: the ability to assign other folders as the default download folder.

I'm using station for a week now (previously using Franz) and I have to say that is really awesome, nice UI, nice focus feature and the integration with crisp just nailed it for me. The only thing I'm missing are music players!! Do you have any plans on integrating services like Google Music or SoundCloud? I know there are alternatives but it would be nice to have it right there in station because there's always a tab on my browser playing music or a "web embed app" running. Regards, Luis.

Overall a lot of potential and when it works it's great, but there's still quite a few issues that ruin the experience. The team also makes it hard to reach out to them with feedback or bug reports.

Pros:

Great idea and execution when it works.

Cons:

Sometimes an app "breaks" and there's no easy way to reset it.

Completely useless product. I've seen so many of these types of apps come out. And they are just a browser that bookmarks specific pages.

Pros:

Nothing

Cons:

Just another faux browser with bookmarks

I absolutely LOVE Station! For me, this is by far the cleanest and lightest experience of any of the recent aggregation-type apps.

I had been using Rambox and still enjoy that product, especially the open source nature and approach of @saenzramiro, but it does seem to run a bit heavy and I really prefer the UI/UX of Station. I haven't noticed any lag at all with Station and I can't say for certain, but anecdotally, Station's feature for putting apps to sleep when not actively in use appears to keep things very snappy!

I love that I can have a single Slack instance and access all my Slack channels there. Franz and All-in-One have this, but Rambox creates a separate app instance for each Slack channel. This can be a nightmare for people with many channels. Same for Hangouts. Wish Gmail could be aggregated.

I have also used loads of these apps including most recently Franz 2.0 and 3.0, All-in-One Messenger, FreeterPro, and Alternion. And back in the day, Jolicloud, Hootsuite, Fuse, Socialblend, and Hojoki. Station fits my workflow and style better than any of the others. I also appreciate the active community and the ability to have the forum as one of the apps directly inside of Station.

The few frustrations that I have are minor, but worth noting.

1. Station does not support very many extensions.

Extension support is my top request. It's been so long since I ran Chrome without adblock that I didn't know Google still placed spam in Gmail! What I miss most is though is Lastpass support.

2. Links open in a proprietary Station browser window.

This means if I want to take any action on that page/info, which requires an extension (i.e. clipping to Evernote), I have to re-open the url in my primary browser. This doesn't happen in all apps with all links, but it is frequent enough to be an annoyance. I can usually resolve it with a right-click + "Open link in default browser", but that doesn't work on buttons or images.

3. We cannot add any app that we like.

This is where Rambox earns its spot toward the top of this space. With Station we have to make a request and wait and hope that enough other people use/have requested the same app. Not a big deal, but I sure would love to have Milanote in Station with the rest of my frequently opened pages. :-)

Well done @al3xstrat! Appreciate this awesome tool!

Pros:

Fast, clean, easy to setup, great performance, great UX, huge number of supported apps

Cons:

Can't add unsupported apps on your own, links open in a proprietary Station window, doesn't support most chrome extensions

Nice

I was beta testing this a few years ago and wanted to test it again but how can I download it now?

I go to check out this interesting product aaaaaaaaaaand there website is down and has been for at least 2 hours now

First thing I do when I get to the office in the morning - Open Station - The work can then start.

Pros:

Sleek UX - enhance productivity

Cons:

Notifications still buggy sometimes...