what is a console application?

Question

what is the main difference between console application and desktop application?

Answer 1

Console app runs in a command line with no graphical interface.
Desktop apps (Windows application or Windows presentation foundation aka wpf) have graphical interface with all the buttons and textboxs and such.

Answer 2

A console application is a computer program designed to be used via a text-only computer interface, such as a text terminal, the command line interface of some operating systems (Unix, DOS, etc.) or the text-based interface included with most Graphical User Interface (GUI) operating systems, such as the Win32 console in Microsoft Windows, the Terminal in Mac OS X, and xterm in Unix. A user typically interacts with a console application using only a keyboard and display screen, as opposed to GUI applications, which normally require the use of a mouse or other pointing device. Many console applications such as command line interpreters are command line tools, but numerous text-based user interface (TUI) programs also exist.