Station - One app to rule them all

At first I didn't understand the point of Station, but when I decided to switch to the Gmail webapp it turned out to be just awesome and encompassed all the tools I use in my workflow (Gmail, Slack, Drive, Trello, etc). Now I can't imagine my life without it.

Super useful, can't imagine my everyday work without it anymore! I'm a fan, obviously :)

Pros:

Fast, minimal clean design, constant development

Cons:

Because of the Google login there are some trouble from time to time in Russia

We're using Mac version and it's OK for now and helps us to save time for our main jobs.

Pros:

Really fantastic tool. We use many tools and Station is a great solution to manage them in single place.

Cons:

Still trying :)

Will there be a dark mode for macOS?

Essentially, Station is a dedicated Web browser (presumably Chrome-based) which is customized to bind Web apps into a fixed UI frame with icons representing each app. It does not “unify the user experience”, because each app keeps its very own UI. Station’s UI is heavily “Material Design” influenced. It is a tad flashier than Google’s Web apps, but generally looks very much like them.

This apparent love for Google’s way of handling UI goes much further: You can’t use Station without a Google account. Unfortunately the developers ignored the fact that not every Google user has their email tied into the Google ecosystem. If you have a Google account using your own email (with your own domain), you are out of luck with Station, as it assumes that if you have a Google Drive account, you also must have a Gmail account. This simplification makes it probably easier for the developers to handle the user account, but it blatantly ignores user intent. Not every user may want to use a Google login to add all their other apps into Google’s data-collecting ecosystem.

Given the current experience, I doubt there has been much of UX research, or user testing in particular. It seems the developers created Station largely based on their own needs, assuming most users would want the same experience as well.

Station does have a compelling argument for its reason for existence, but currently the UX is skewed towards a “Google users only” and Android/Chrome OS kind of experience.

Pros:

Slightly better exprience than a browser window with tabs, thanks to a dedicated UI with icons. Presumably less resource-demanding.

Cons:

Forces user to use Google as login. It doesn’t work without Gmail and it doesn’t allow users to delete the default apps (Gmail, Docs).

Does its job but lacks proper integration and custom features

like they have in Wavebox and Rambox.

Pros:

Cute, clean UI

Cons:

Poor feature set compared to Rambox and Wavebox

How different is it to using tabs in a browser? @al3xstrat Especially we can ping tabs in the browser and have them constantly opened.

By using Station you can use many amazing softwares at the same time. More than 500 SaaS software can be used on a desktop tab. There are that I would like to try SaaS once, and solve the problem to dig an amazing software.

Pros:

Localize web app to desktop app

Cons:

Not many shortcut commands

Hi, Really good product. I guess many people already said enough about it, I just wanna add 2 feature request if not already asked before. 1. Touch bar integration, so that we can jump between apps more easily. Similar to touch bar as available in opera browser. 2. Custom shortcut for Jump to option. I guess these are low hanging fruits and can improve the user experience. Thanks.

Truly brilliant. I have always wanted something that ran all my web apps but simply put, organised where the taps are in the dock. With a browser, my tabs are organised by when in a day I opened them. With Station they are where they always are. Previously I have used a custom home page with links to everything I use in DevOps but now I have no need. Adding an inbuilt password manager would also be awesome. I know there are plans to link with other providers but truly if all my devOps passwords were managed by my devOps platform why would I need anything else? Leave the other password managers to deal with the rest of the web. I would love to see support for the google play store - it’s the only one in my world that is missing. Strange to have the apple one and not the google one. Congratulations on a brilliantly executed “simple” idea. G.