Google Chrome App

Google Chrome Apps
Available inEnglish
OwnerGoogle
Created byGoogle and other app developers
URLchrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps (works only on Chromebooks)
CommercialYes
LaunchedDecember 6, 2010; 13 years ago (2010-12-06)
Current statusChrome Apps in the Chrome Web Store are active for ChromeOS only (until January 2025);
support for other operating systems discontinued in July 2022.

Google Chrome Apps, or commonly just Chrome Apps, were a certain type of non-standardized web application that ran on the Google Chrome web browser. Chrome apps could be obtained from the Chrome Web Store along with various free and paid apps, extensions, and themes. The apps came in two varieties: hosted, or server-side, and packaged, or client-side; each format targeting different use cases.[1] Support for Chrome Apps in the Chrome Web Store was removed from Chrome in June 2022, except on ChromeOS where support has been extended until at least January 2025.[2] For Windows, Linux, and ChromeOS users, you could add a shortcut of a website as a Chrome app.[3]

  1. ^ "Chrome for PC". Famous File. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Extending Chrome App Support on Chrome OS". Chromium Blog. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  3. ^ "Add & open Chrome apps - Chrome Web Store Help". support.google.com. Retrieved 8 March 2024.