Development of High-Performance Desktop Apps with Half the Overhead
Hours
Expert Team
Weeks
Client background
Our client is a global software company focused on developing creative, productivity, and utility applications. One of its flagship products, is a visual productivity tool that helps individuals and teams organize information, plan projects, and make better decisions through structured diagrams and mind maps.
Client Testimonial
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I highly recommend Vlad and DevPulse as an outsourced development company. I had the pleasure of working with them, and I can confidently say that they are a team of dedicated, hardworking, and knowledgeable professionals. They possess a strong commitment to ensuring the success of their clients and are willing to go above and beyond to achieve it. DevPulse's work ethic is exemplary. They consistently demonstrate a high level of dedication and perseverance, ensuring that projects are completed on time and to the client's satisfaction. Their expertise in the development field is evident through the quality of their work and their ability to tackle complex challenges with ease.I highly recommend Anna and DevPulse to any organization looking for a partner that can deliver high-quality platforms fast, smart, and reliably. They bring engineering precision, strong architecture, and a partnership mindset that helps customers win.
Mark Beare
General Manager
Success Metrics
Complex challenges require structured thinking. We turn fragmented inputs into clear, actionable direction.
Business Challenge
The team behind MindManager needed to continuously evolve MindManager, a mature enterprise desktop application used by organizations worldwide. The product had to support both Windows and macOS while maintaining native user experiences on each platform.
The key objective was to accelerate feature delivery, reduce engineering costs, and simplify long-term maintenance without sacrificing application performance or platform-specific capabilities.
Case attributes
Partnership period
long-term ongoing support partnership from 2017
Team Composition
4 C++ Core Developers
3 Windows Developers
3 Mac developers
5 Manual QA
2 Automated QA
2 Full-Stack Developers
C++ Engineer
QA Engineer
Project Manager
Location
Canada
Technology
C++
C#
Windows APIs
Quartz
.NET Framework
COM
MFC
QT
Cocoa
Objective C
Swift
App Kit
Platform
Windows, macOS
The Solution
DevPulse designed and continuously evolved a modular cross-platform architecture built around a shared C++ application core. By separating platform-independent business logic from native operating-system functionality, we enabled independent evolution of each layer while maintaining high performance and a consistent user experience across Windows and macOS.
This architecture enabled the development team to deliver new functionality more efficiently, reduce duplicated engineering effort, and preserve the native experience users expect on each operating system.
Main technical challenges
Implementing a large multiplatform desktop application with a shared C++ core and native UIs (Windows/macOS) comes with several significant technical challenges.
The Result
By implementing a modular cross-platform architecture with a shared C++ core, devPulse helped the client significantly reduce development complexity while enabling faster and more efficient product evolution.
The solution minimized code duplication across Windows and macOS, streamlined feature delivery, lowered long-term maintenance effort, and preserved fully native user experiences on both platforms. As a result, the client gained a scalable architectural foundation that supports continuous innovation, simplifies future development, and reduces the overall cost of maintaining an enterprise desktop application.
Value Delivered by devPulse
By implementing a shared C++ core, we unified business logic across Mac and Windows platforms while maintaining native user interfaces.
Less duplicated code across platforms means fewer engineering hours required.
Features developed once in the core can be shipped simultaneously on Mac and Windows.
Bug fixes and enhancements in the shared core benefit both platforms instantly.
Users on both platforms receive similar features and workflows, reducing support friction.
Enterprise customers value synchronized, stable, and native apps — boosting brand perception.
The architecture supports long-term scalability and potential expansion to other platforms.
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