The library

Your library at launch.

Open source and MIT-licensed. Install any of them in one tap; each one gets smarter when you install another.

Everyday

Business

The Business folder on an iPhone, and Pipeline open on an iPad, shared by email with Sam, a contractor who never installed anything.

Hobbies

More apps every week. Or build your own →

Ion Apps

Ion Apps is a catalogue of apps that run on an Ion hub — the machine you own that Ion runs on — rather than on somebody else's servers. Each app's page says, in plain words, what it asks to be allowed to do.

Every app says what it asks for

An app declares its permissions when it is published, and its page in the catalogue spells them out before anybody installs it:

  • the hosts on the internet it asks to reach, and that it asks to reach no others;
  • the tools on your hub it asks to use, such as the AI on your hub or its storage;
  • whether it sends push notifications;
  • how much storage it needs on your hub.

Trusted is a badge, not a gate

Anyone with an Ion account can publish an app. An app gets the Trusted badge when someone at Ion has reviewed it and the permissions it asks for. A new version keeps the badge only while it asks for no more than the version that was reviewed. An app without the badge is not blocked; it simply has not been reviewed.

Publishing

Publishing needs an Ion account. A new app starts unlisted, visible only to the person who published it, until they choose to make it public. Each version is published once, and a version number is never reused, so an installed version always means the same thing.

Where it stands

Like the rest of Ion, Ion Apps has not launched. The catalogue and publishing are being built into the Ion account service now; installing apps onto a hub is still in development. The early-access list is the way to hear when it is ready.

Browse Ion Apps

Get early access.

Invite-only, released in small waves. Free during early access.

Get early access.

Invite-only, released in small waves. Free during early access.