Explore and search

Explore is where people discover apps others have built. Anyone can browse it and open apps without an account.

Which apps appear

Only apps whose General access is open to anyone with the link — view or use — are listed. Apps shared only with people and groups, or set to ask for access, never appear. See Share an app.

What’s on Explore

• Featured apps chosen by the Maypop team.
• For you (signed in): apps like the ones you’ve used recently.
• Find your kind of thing: moods such as Better together, A little competitive and Learn something, leading into categories.
• Top apps, and the apps people are using most.
• Fresh: the newest public apps.
• Top creators: the people behind the most public apps.

Searching or choosing a category switches to a grid ordered by how well apps match what you asked for. The search palette shows Recent, Try, Apps and People.

Categories

Each app has one category:

Category	For
Education	Lessons, quizzes & study tools
Social	Feeds, profiles & community
Productivity	Tasks, notes & planners
Games	Games, toys & multiplayer fun
Entertainment	Stories, memes & things to watch
Design	Drawing, color & creative tools
Music	Instruments, sound tools & audio
Family	Kids, recipes & household
Travel	Trips, maps & itineraries
Sports	Scores, fitness & tracking
Fitness	Workouts, habits & health

What makes an app rank

Ranking blends two things:

• Quality — how well the app is made, how it looks, and the ratings people other than its creator give it.
• Use — how many different people open it and come back, how long they spend, and how often it’s shared and remixed, with recent activity counting most.

A brand-new app with no history can still show up in Fresh.

Search engines and link previews

Public apps can be found on Google and other search engines; unlisted and private apps are kept out. When an app’s link is pasted into a chat or a social post, the preview shows the app’s name, description and cover.

Give your app a good listing

• A clear name — a few concrete words.
• A one-sentence description saying what it does and for whom. It’s what search engines and previews show.
• The right category.
• A real cover — a 4:3 image with one clear subject and no text. Studio makes one for you; replace it under App settings.
• Something worth rating. Ratings from other people are part of quality.