Major web browsers have the ability to pin a Progressive Web App as a stand-alone application. This lets you treat Web Apps as Native Apps. We're currently on Firefox Quantum 68, and this feature is still not available. Meanwhile, Google Chrome, and GNOME Web could easily pin a Web App to your App Menu.

The worst part of this is that this is not a new technology for Mozilla. Firefox users were able to pin web apps, through a technology called Prism. Then Mozilla added the Firefox Marketplace, and it was another way to pin Web Apps, and even rate them for other users to see. The Marketplace was essential part of Firefox OS. But when the Firefox OS project ended, Mozilla removed Prism and Marketplace from Firefox.



To sum up, PWAs are now better than ever, but we still don't have a way to handle PWAs like Native Apps. Something very common in 2019.



PS: For the image above, I used GNOME Web, A basic Web Browser from the GNOME Project, that is capable of pinning PWAs.