# Releasing a Open Source Forum App for Discourse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/releasing-a-open-source-forum-app-for-discourse/398997
**Category:** General
**Created:** [March 22, 2026, 7:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/releasing-a-open-source-forum-app-for-discourse/398997 "2026-03-22T07:35:40Z")
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### Author: ![paco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/paco/32/547931_2.png) [@paco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/paco)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2026, 4:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/releasing-a-open-source-forum-app-for-discourse/398997/3 "2026-03-22T16:54:16Z")

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I’m interested to understand the motivation. What can an app do for the user that a web site cannot? I mean, these days web browsers on mobile have APIs for location, camera, uploading files, etc. What does an app add?

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