# Appflare

> A self-hosted app manager for Cloudflare. Install, update, and remove Cloudflare-native apps in your own account.

## Instructions for coding agents

- [Install Appflare](https://appflare.dev/agent/install.md): Install Appflare into the user's Cloudflare account with the installer.
- [Add an app to the catalog](https://appflare.dev/agent/submit.md): Write an app's catalog manifest, check it, and open the pull request.

## Getting started

- [What Appflare is](https://appflare.dev/start/overview.md): A self-hosted app manager that runs as one Worker in your own Cloudflare account.
- [Install from your browser](https://appflare.dev/start/browser-install.md): Install Appflare from appflare.dev/deploy, what Appflare's hosted installer receives and keeps, and how to continue or remove an unfinished installation.
- [Deploy with the button](https://appflare.dev/start/deploy-button.md): Deploy Appflare from your browser with the Deploy to Cloudflare button, then remove what the button leaves behind.
- [Install Appflare](https://appflare.dev/start/install.md): Install from your browser at appflare.dev/deploy, or with Cloudflare's Deploy button. Both end in the same setup wizard.

## Using Appflare

- [Browse the catalog](https://appflare.dev/guides/catalog.md): What the catalog pages show before you install an app.
- [Install an app](https://appflare.dev/guides/install-apps.md): The install form, secrets, what the install job does, and post-install steps.
- [Install links](https://appflare.dev/guides/install-links.md): Links that open an app or a GitHub repository in your Appflare, ready to install, and how Appflare keeps them across sign-in.
- [Health checks](https://appflare.dev/guides/health.md): How Appflare checks that an installed app answers, and what each result means.
- [Custom domains](https://appflare.dev/guides/custom-domains.md): Serve an installed app on a hostname in one of your own domains.
- [External domains](https://appflare.dev/guides/external-domains.md): Serve an installed app on a hostname whose DNS is managed outside your Cloudflare account, through Cloudflare for SaaS and the Appflare gateway.
- [Protect apps with Cloudflare Access](https://appflare.dev/guides/protect-apps.md): Put an installed app behind a Cloudflare sign-in so only Appflare's users reach it, at install or later.
- [Give Appflare its own address](https://appflare.dev/guides/appflare-address.md): Move Appflare from its workers.dev address to a domain of your Cloudflare account, change it, or go back.
- [Apps that receive email](https://appflare.dev/guides/email-apps.md): How Appflare sets up Cloudflare Email Routing for an app, which permissions it needs, and what uninstalling undoes.
- [Update and roll back](https://appflare.dev/guides/updates.md): Updating an app, rolling it back, and restoring a database to an earlier point.
- [Change an app's settings](https://appflare.dev/guides/settings.md): Change an installed app's settings, rotate or remove its secrets, move its email to another zone, and what a rollback puts back.
- [Notifications](https://appflare.dev/guides/notifications.md): Send messages about updates, jobs, failing health checks, unusual usage, paused apps and external domains to Telegram, Slack, Discord or your own webhook, and verify a webhook's signature.
- [Usage and spend protection](https://appflare.dev/guides/spend-protection.md): How Appflare watches what each app uses, the alerts it sends, pausing an app by hand or automatically, the monthly budget, and what its estimates leave out.
- [Uninstall an app](https://appflare.dev/guides/uninstall.md): What an uninstall deletes, what you can keep, how to delete kept data later, and how to finish an uninstall that stopped.
- [Update Appflare](https://appflare.dev/guides/update-appflare.md): How the manager updates itself, and how to go back.
- [Users and roles](https://appflare.dev/guides/users.md): The owner, admins, members, and managing users.
- [Forgot your password](https://appflare.dev/guides/forgot-password.md): Get back into Appflare with an emailed link, a code from an admin, or a code from your Cloudflare account.
- [Appflare's Cloudflare connection](https://appflare.dev/guides/cloudflare-connection.md): How Appflare connects to your Cloudflare account, Reconnect Cloudflare, switching between Cloudflare sign-in and an API token, and withdrawing Appflare's access.
- [Rotate the auth secret or remove Appflare](https://appflare.dev/guides/danger-zone.md): The two owner-only actions in Settings > Your account > Danger zone.

## Catalog

- [How the catalog works](https://appflare.dev/catalog/how-it-works.md): Pinned commits, signed artifacts, versioned releases, and the nightly install check.
- [Submit an app](https://appflare.dev/catalog/submit.md): Add an app to the Appflare catalog with one manifest file and a pull request.
- [Version bumps](https://appflare.dev/catalog/bumps.md): How the bump bot proposes new upstream versions for catalog apps.
- [Add an Install badge](https://appflare.dev/catalog/install-badge.md): Put an "Install with Appflare" button in your project's README, for an app in the catalog or for any GitHub repository.
- [Manifest reference](https://appflare.dev/catalog/manifest-reference.md): Every field of appflare.jsonc, generated from the catalog manifest JSON Schema.

## More

- [Security model](https://appflare.dev/security.md): Signed artifacts, pinned builds, what the manager does with its access to your Cloudflare account, the browser installer's part, sessions, roles, notification credentials, and the optional Cloudflare Access protection.
- [Anonymous report](https://appflare.dev/telemetry.md): What leaving the anonymous report on does, what Appflare sends and never sends, where it goes, and the ways to turn it off.
- [FAQ](https://appflare.dev/faq.md): Free plan limits, health check results, R2 and payment methods, and removing Appflare.

## Advanced

- [Custom catalogs](https://appflare.dev/guides/custom-catalogs.md): Add catalogs besides the official one, browse them together, and what changes for apps that come from them.
- [Install from a repository](https://appflare.dev/guides/install-from-a-repository.md): Build any GitHub repository with a wrangler config in your own account, public or private with a read-only token, review what it declares, and install it. Also, build a catalog app from source at another commit. Needs Workers Paid and sandbox builds.
- [Sandbox builds](https://appflare.dev/guides/builds.md): Build apps that have no prebuilt release inside a container in your own account. Needs Workers Paid.

## Other pages

- [Privacy](https://appflare.dev/privacy.md): What appflare.dev records about visits to its pages, and what Appflare's installer keeps.

## Apps

- [Apps](https://appflare.dev/apps/): Apps you can add to your own Cloudflare account with Appflare. Each one runs in your account, under your control.
- [2FA](https://appflare.dev/apps/2fa/): Store your two-factor codes with automatic backups
- [Agentic Inbox](https://appflare.dev/apps/agentic-inbox/): Your own email inbox with an AI assistant that drafts replies
- [CattoPic](https://appflare.dev/apps/cattopic/): Upload and organize images on your own image host
- [FlareMo](https://appflare.dev/apps/flaremo/): Capture notes and find them when you need them
- [Mailflare](https://appflare.dev/apps/mailflare/): Email and shared inboxes for your own domain
- [OpenSEO](https://appflare.dev/apps/open-seo/): Find search terms, track rankings, and check your site's health
- [ResolveHQ](https://appflare.dev/apps/resolvehq/): Manage customer emails and support tickets in your own account
- [Veet](https://appflare.dev/apps/veet/): Share a link and talk face to face in your browser

## App categories

- [Email apps](https://appflare.dev/categories/email/): 3 apps in the Email category that you can add to your own Cloudflare account with Appflare.
- [AI apps](https://appflare.dev/categories/ai/): 1 app in the AI category that you can add to your own Cloudflare account with Appflare.
- [Analytics apps](https://appflare.dev/categories/analytics/): 1 app in the Analytics category that you can add to your own Cloudflare account with Appflare.
- [Business apps](https://appflare.dev/categories/business/): 1 app in the Business category that you can add to your own Cloudflare account with Appflare.
- [Chat apps](https://appflare.dev/categories/chat/): 1 app in the Chat category that you can add to your own Cloudflare account with Appflare.
- [Files apps](https://appflare.dev/categories/files/): 1 app in the Files category that you can add to your own Cloudflare account with Appflare.
- [Marketing apps](https://appflare.dev/categories/marketing/): 1 app in the Marketing category that you can add to your own Cloudflare account with Appflare.
- [Notes apps](https://appflare.dev/categories/notes/): 1 app in the Notes category that you can add to your own Cloudflare account with Appflare.
- [Productivity apps](https://appflare.dev/categories/productivity/): 1 app in the Productivity category that you can add to your own Cloudflare account with Appflare.
- [Security apps](https://appflare.dev/categories/security/): 1 app in the Security category that you can add to your own Cloudflare account with Appflare.
- [Utilities apps](https://appflare.dev/categories/utilities/): 1 app in the Utilities category that you can add to your own Cloudflare account with Appflare.

## Optional

- [Full text](https://appflare.dev/llms-full.txt): every page of these docs in one Markdown file.