# Discourse Community or App

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**Created:** [March 10, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-community-or-app/356624 "2025-03-10T14:51:59Z")\
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You can have both with Discourse.

At the very least you can send users a link and they can open the community at first in their browser, but modern phones will now prompt a user to install it on their homepage because Discourse is a Progressive Web App.

Once they’ve clicked on install and given the phone permission, the Discourse community will appear on their phone as if it is an app and as you may know Discourse pretty much feels like an app in use in any case.

Users will even receive push notifications!

This means you do not have to go to the trouble and expense of deploying to the app stores.

However, it is _also_ possible to deploy a wrapped version to the app stores if you really want to, but this will require a freelancer to help you with that step.

And that’s not all!

There’s the official Hub app which is already on the app stores and allows you to add several communities at once and makes for a nice way to keep a collection of useful Discourse sites you regularly visit. However, it is not branded uniquely as you could do with your own app.

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