electron-store
Simple data persistence for Electron apps to save settings and app state.
Desktop and mobile apps npm MIT
How electron-store is used
electron-store is a dependency in 10 of the 6,211 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,980); counting those, it appears in 43 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. Projects that use it most often also use Electron (100.0%), electron-builder (90.7%), Vite (83.7%).
electron-store popularity over time
Gid Score 50: downloads 63, use in agent projects 38, GitHub stars 38, downloads trend 57 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with electron-store
| Electron | 100.0% of electron-store projects · 94.1× more than average |
|---|---|
| electron-builder | 90.7% of electron-store projects · 102.4× more than average |
| Vite | 83.7% of electron-store projects · 4.3× more than average |
| concurrently | 69.8% of electron-store projects · 9.0× more than average |
| dotenv | 65.1% of electron-store projects · 4.2× more than average |
| react-markdown | 60.5% of electron-store projects · 15.5× more than average |
| Electron Updater | 58.1% of electron-store projects · 172.0× more than average |
| remark-gfm | 58.1% of electron-store projects · 15.9× more than average |
From all 43 projects in our scan that use electron-store, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| Cursor | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
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Share of public repos configured for each agent that list electron-store as a dependency.
How electron-store is funded
Open Collective: Sindre Sorhus
| Received, last 12 months | $8,687 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $7,233 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $16,650 |
| Raised since the start | $124,128 · $107,478 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $550 · $550 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -22% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 20 |
Top company backers all time, 25 companies in total
| Retool | $30,000 since Jan 2021 |
|---|---|
| Gitpod | $15,500 since Jul 2021 |
| Strapi | $7,420 since May 2021 |
| Frontend Masters | $5,000 since Aug 2022 |
| GatsbyJS | $4,500 since Oct 2019 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Mar 2019. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 26 more tools in our catalog: chalk, ora, execa, boxen, open, p-limit and others.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @sindresorhus | 186 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work, which here includes chalk, ora, file-type.
Ways to fund electron-store
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective Buy Me a Coffee Own page
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install electron-store |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (41), Python (1), Next.js (1) |
| Example projects | xpf0000/FlyEnv, langchain-ai/openwork, cin12211/orca-q, gxr404/BilibiliVideoDownloadFork, Mebius1916/NextTalk_web |
Alternatives to electron-store
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Desktop and mobile apps does the same job as electron-store: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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