Concept

Apps

Live, data-driven content on your screens, and where it fits.

Some content on a screen is fixed. Some of it is alive: a dashboard that updates through the day, a calendar that fills with the next meetings, a weather panel that changes with the sky. Those are apps.

These pages cover what an app is, where it fits among your other content, the ready-made apps in the App Store, and building your own.

Topics

4 topics · 4 min read

1 What an app is An app is a small program that shows live, self-updating content, and unlike a web page made for a laptop, it is built to be displayed on a screen.
2 Where apps fit To a screen, an app is content like any other. It goes in playlists, follows schedules, and is managed the same way as an image or a video.
3 Screenly App Store The App Store is a catalogue of ready-made apps that come with your subscription, and you can request one when something is missing.
4 Build your own When no ready-made app fits, you can build your own and run it on Screenly like any other piece of content.

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