# Introducing DisCorkie – A Multi-Instance Discourse Client **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discorkie-a-multi-instance-discourse-client/357103 **Category:** Extras **Tags:** android-app, ios-app, desktop, interface **Created:** [March 13, 2025, 10:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discorkie-a-multi-instance-discourse-client/357103 "2025-03-13T10:44:52Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5
### Author: ![messiaslima](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/messiaslima/32/466278_2.png) [@messiaslima](https://meta.discourse.org/u/messiaslima) #### Post date: [March 13, 2025, 2:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discorkie-a-multi-instance-discourse-client/357103/5 "2025-03-13T14:18:38Z")
> What were the use cases that led you to make this? Basically the same use cases that led to the creation of the Discourse Hub. However, I’m extending this concept also for Desktop applications > What is the difference to the discourse-hub? **User experience** DisCorkie UI based on [Skia](https://skia.org)([KMP](https://www.jetbrains.com/kotlin-multiplatform/)) That give use several benefits when compared with the regular UI in HTML,CSS and JS: Performance, UI Consistency regardless the operating system or browser version, Smoother animations and transitions **Overal performance** Due to the fact DisCorkie does not use Javascript or HTML we can benefit from this architecture: - More robust multithreading support: Used to boost application performance due to parallel processing - The application does not need to load any HTML, CSS or JS file from the network. We only need the JSON payload. Less files to download, which makes it better for use in an unstable internet connection environment. - These reasons associated with caching make the app very resource-light **Comparison** This is the current Discourse Hub experience on an Android device. The app opens the forum on the browser. So basically it works like a shortcut * * * This is how the DisCorkie app looks like on an Android Device This looks way more like an app for me --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discorkie-a-multi-instance-discourse-client/357103)._