The dedicated CurseForge team of engineers inside Overwolf will be in charge of continuously improving the Curseforge app to be the best mod manager out there.
Building it as a dedicated app on the Overwolf 'engine', would practically mean that you’ll have the same UX, but with better performance, more capabilities, and faster development cycles, powered by everything we’ve built into Overwolf over the years which will run in the background without interfering with your game play. We know many of you would have preferred to have CurseForge as a stand-alone app. You can see how we explained the rational behind the decision in our Newsletter This includes settings that allow you to close Overwolf with CurseForge.
We've put in various ways to make the app behave as a 'standalone app' while OverWolf runs in the background. This is a popular subject that we've been discussing with gamers such as yourself.