Gears (software)

This article is about the Google software Gears. For other uses, see Gear (disambiguation).
Gears
Developer(s)Google
Initial releaseMay 31, 2007; 17 years ago (2007-05-31)
Final release0.5.36.0 (February 22, 2010; 14 years ago (2010-02-22)[1]) [±]
Operating systemWindows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 5, Windows Mobile 6, macOS, Linux, BlackBerry OS 5
LicenseBSD
Websitegears.google.com

Gears, formerly Google Gears,[2] is a discontinued utility software offered by Google to create more powerful web apps by adding offline storage and other additional features to web browsers.[3] Released under the BSD license,[4] Gears is free and open-source. Gears was conceived at a time when a comparable alternative was not available. However, Gears was discontinued in favor of the standardized HTML5 methods that eventually became prevalent.

  1. ^ Revision: r3423
  2. ^ "Happy birthday, Google Gears!". Official Google Blog. 2008-05-28. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
  3. ^ "Gears". Retrieved 2008-09-01.
  4. ^ "Google Code project for Gears". Retrieved 2008-02-26.