A new Apps tab for adding ready-made signage apps

A clock in the lobby or a news feed in the break room no longer needs a web page you found and pasted in yourself. Anthias 2026.07.1 adds a third tab, "Apps", to the "Add asset" window, next to "From URL" and "Upload file". It lists the apps in the signage app store, each with an icon, a short description and tags.

Pick an app and fill in its settings, such as a time zone, a location on a map or the feed to show, then select "Add app". The name is filled in for you. For an app you set up by picking from a list, such as the feed in RSS Reader, it's the option you picked, so 2 RSS Reader assets showing different feeds get different names.

An app plays as a web page, so scheduling, durations and ordering on the home page work as they do for any other asset. When an app says how often its page should reload, Anthias reloads it on that schedule. To change an app's settings later, open the asset with "Edit": the "App settings" section has the same form, filled in with your current values.

A setting that takes a list, such as the cities in a world clock, can't be set from Anthias. Some apps then show nothing for it: Menu Board came up with your title and footer but no menu items, until Anthias 2026.08.1.

Where the apps come from

The apps come from Signage Apps, a free catalog you can also browse on its own website. Your browser loads the list from there when you open the tab, so the player doesn't have to reach the store for you to browse it. To show an app, the player loads the app's own address, like any other web page, so it needs to reach that.

Anthias only adds an app whose address is on a domain ending in .srly.io or .signage-apps.com. To point a player at another catalog, such as a store you host yourself, set these environment variables on the server container:

• APP_STORE_INDEX_URL, the catalog address, https://signage-apps.com/manifest.json by default
• APP_STORE_ALLOWED_HOST_SUFFIXES, a comma-separated list of the domains apps may live on, .srly.io,.signage-apps.com by default