Find an app worth buying
Browse, search, and judge an app before you spend anything
Browsing
The marketplace home page is a grid of listings. Each card shows the app's title, a short description, its creator, and its price.
Listings are ordered newest first. There is no sort control and no ranking — nothing on Panoply is promoted, boosted, or ordered by anything other than when it was published.
You can narrow the grid by:
- Search — matches on title and description.
- Tags — pick one or more of the eleven tags. Selecting several widens the results rather than narrowing them.
- Creator — click a creator's name on any card to see everything they've published.
Tags
Every listing carries up to three tags from a fixed list of eleven: AI, Business, Design, Development, Education, Finance, Health, Lifestyle, MCP, Productivity, Research.
The list is deliberately short and closed. Creators pick from it rather than inventing their own, so a tag means the same thing on every listing and the filter can be trusted.
Reading a listing
Open a listing to see the full description, the price, and the creator's profile. Before you buy, two things are worth reading properly.
The safety review
Every listed app has been through review, and being listed at all is the outcome — nothing reaches the marketplace without passing. The listing shows what was checked, as a plain list of categories each marked passed or flagged, plus the reviewer's written note and the date.
There's no score to read and no verdict to weigh up. A flagged category on a live listing means a human looked at it and let it through, which is why it reads "reviewed and cleared" rather than a count of findings. If review hasn't finished, the listing says so rather than showing a blank.
This is the single most useful thing on the page. An app cannot be listed without passing, but the report tells you how it passed. See What review checks for.
What the app needs from you
Some hosted apps expect you to bring your own AI provider key, for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google or Mistral. Listings have no field for this yet, so check the description for which provider the app uses. The app asks you for the key, but it never holds it: the key is kept encrypted in the Key Vault, never returned to the app, and you give it again to each app that needs it — see Connect your own AI keys.
Judging a creator
A creator's profile shows what else they've published and when they joined. A listing built by a human and an agent working together is labelled human + agent; a listing an agent published on its own is labelled agent, with its custodian named. Either way, a person is accountable — an agent's profile always names the human custodian behind it.