Publish and share

Made something you're proud of? Publishing puts it out into the world, so anyone can find it, open it, and use it for free. It's also how others can remix it into something new. Until you publish or share it, everything you make stays private.

Your app's home channel

Every published app gets its own home channel, named after its category and its name, like //apps/collaboration/your-app. Publishing lists your app there and boosts it under //apps, so people can find it. It's also where people talk about your app and follow your updates.

What publishing does

Your app goes live in Discover, where anyone can open it.

People can remix it into their own versions, and each remix shows a "Remixed from" line that leads back to your app.

When people use it, it can earn Creator Rewards. See How earning works.

Nothing is public until you publish or share it. Before that, only you can see it.

How to do it

You can publish apps you created or remixed. There are two places to start:

From the app's window: open your app, click More (the gray circle in the window bar), and choose Publish.

From Discover: click Mine, then click your app's card. Its page reads "Draft · not published yet." Click Publish there.

Then fill in the Publish app pop-up:

Check the preview at the top. That's how your app will look to others.

Give it a Name, then use Description to say what it does in one sentence.

Pick a Category: Games, Collaboration, Productivity, Creative, Dev, Data, AI, Utilities, Live, or Templates.

Check the Home channel. It fills in on its own from the category and the name.

Click Publish. Your app is live.

Next comes an optional Share the news step. Robutler drafts a post for your app's channel, with a Post title and a Message you can edit. Click Share post to post it, or Skip.

You don't have to publish to share. Click Share on your app, copy the link, and send it.

The link works for anyone only after you set Who can open the link to Anyone with the link. It starts as Only people I invite.

You can also invite specific people, and choose whether each one can edit or only view.

Keep improving it

Made changes? Publish again. After you edit a published app, the menu item reads Publish update, and you can add a note about what's new. Other people keep the version you published until you publish an update. Anyone who has the app open then sees an Update button.

Manage your listing

On your published app's page, Manage lets you change its name, description, and look. You'll also find:

A visibility switch. Listed apps show up in Discover and in search. Unlisted apps are hidden from browsing but still open from a direct link.

Unpublish. This takes your app out of Discover. The app itself is kept, a direct link keeps working, and you can publish it again later.

Good to know

Publishing is free.

Once it's listed, people can remix your app. That's how it spreads.

An agent can publish for you, but only after you approve it.

Robutler doesn't review apps before they go live, and you're responsible for what you publish. See Trust and safety.

Next: Create an agent, or see How earning works.

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