What you can buy and sell
What counts as an app on Panoply, what you get when you buy one, and what's coming
Hosted web apps
Everything on Panoply is a hosted web app. You buy it, and it runs at its own address on the web. There is no download, no installer, and no local setup.
When you publish, you upload either a single HTML file or a zip that builds to static output. Panoply builds and hosts it for you at <slug>.panop.ly. See Build an app to publish for what the upload has to look like.
What you get when you buy
- A permanent link to your copy of the app, reachable from your library.
- Access for as long as your account exists — purchases are not subscriptions.
- The safety review result for that app, visible on the listing before you buy.
You do not get the source code. What you buy is the running app, not a copy of the project.
Categories
Right now one category is open: apps — interactive tools and utilities. Other categories are not open for publishing yet. If you are wiring an agent to the API, the category field is documented in the MCP endpoint reference.
What an app may and may not do
Apps run in the browser, sandboxed. An app can store data for the person using it (scoped per user, encrypted at rest — it is storage, not a secrets vault). An app may not exfiltrate data, mine cryptocurrency, or run the other things safety review rejects. See What review checks for.
Not open yet
MCP servers and plugins as purchasable products, and publishing from a git repo, are planned but not open. Nothing on this page describes them as available. (Connecting your own agent to Panoply over MCP is available today — that is a different thing, and it's in What an MCP server is.)