# Install an app


> Pick one from the App store, or deploy one you built with the CLI. Either way it appears under Apps, not in Content.

There are two ways to add an app.

The usual one is the **App store**. The other is the [CLI](/docs/developers/cli/), which is the advanced route for an app you have built yourself.

Neither one goes through **New content**. The app appears under **Apps**. It does not appear in **Content** with your images and videos.

## From the App store

Open **Apps** and go to the **App store**. Browse by category, or search.

You can also browse the [full catalogue on our site](/apps/) before signing in.

1. Open the app and choose **Install**.
2. Give it a name. This is what you will look for under **Apps** later, so name it for what it shows rather than what it is: `Frankfurt weather` beats `Weather`.
3. Fill in its settings. What you see depends on the app: a location for weather, a dashboard for a business intelligence tool, sometimes nothing at all.
4. Choose **Install** again.

It appears under **Apps**.

## From the CLI

This is the advanced route. If you have built an app yourself, the CLI deploys it to your workspace, and an instance of it appears under **Apps**, the same as one from the store.

```bash
screenly edge-app deploy
```

See [Build and deploy](/docs/developers/edge-apps/guides/build-and-deploy/) for the full loop, and [Build your own](/docs/apps/extending/build-your-own/) for what an app is made of.

## What happens next

Add it to a [playlist](/docs/playlists/building/add-and-order-content/), give it a duration, and assign the playlist to screens.

Give it a generous duration. An app fetching live data has to load before it can show anything, so a dashboard on screen for ten seconds may spend most of that loading. Thirty or forty seconds is more realistic. See [How long things play](/docs/content/overview/how-long-things-play/).

Naming, settings, and secrets are covered in [Setting up an app](/docs/apps/setting-up/). How an app behaves once it is in a playlist is in [Apps](/docs/content/types/apps/).