It had the same features as the iPhone app however, because its interface was not optimized, it ended up looking like the same iPhone app on a bigger screen.Īs a Catalyst app is an iPad app built for macOS, we first decided to improve the iPad experience. Getting Catalyst up and running 🧪 Pimp my iPad appĭashlane’s iPad app has not evolved a lot recently. The introduction of Mac Catalyst in 2019 allowed developers to turn their iPad apps into native macOS apps easily, which meant we could adapt the code we already had in a shorter timespan, so Safari users could enjoy the same features as on our other browser extensions, in a new and lightweight format.Ĭatalyst would help us build a great Dashlane app, completely integrated within the Apple ecosystem, and benefit from everything we had already built for iOS/iPad! We knew that the refactor of our iOS app would make it possible.Īfter a few changes to our Xcode project, the Catalyst app was alive! All the features we had on iPad were there, even app extensions like the Widget or the Credential Autofill, almost for free! It is one of the major advantages of using the Catalyst technology: all the new features we build for the iOS app will be available at the same time for our Safari users, without additional development. Over the years, Apple has made many improvements to the iPad environment, making it closer to Mac’s desktop user experience. Thankfully, Apple had a solution for us: Mac Catalyst, a way to bring our iPad app to macOS. Introducing Catalyst ✨ĭuring our last company hackathon, we challenged ourselves to build a better experience for our Safari users without rebuilding everything from scratch. Due to the way the Safari App Extension was built, we unfortunately couldn’t offer the full Dashlane experience on this Extension in the same way our Chrome extension could. We needed another way. The codebase of all our core features was shared between the two apps to ship faster and more reliably. It allowed us to have a new native interface while sharing code with the iOS app.
In 2020, we built Dashlane for Safari, an App Extension where users could see, synchronize and autofill their data. It’s offered a wide feature set, from managing credentials to sharing items with your friends and family. Earlier this year, we announced that we would deprecate our desktop apps to prioritize our browser extensions, allowing us to focus on what matters the most for our users, reducing friction while on the web! Today, our extensions offer a great experience for Chrome and Firefox users, and we aim to do the same for Safari users.
Dashlane’s macOS app has been around for years.
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