App Platform
Extend your Lombok instance with modular apps — install from the app store or build and ship your own on the Lombok app platform.
Lombok's app platform lets you build highly custom app experiences without reinventing the wheel. Authentication, data persistence, background tasks, notifications, and a component library come out of the box — so apps focus on their idea, not their infrastructure.
Top-level app screens and alternate explorer views that feel like a core part of the platform.
One platform-agnostic UI definition renders across iOS, macOS, tvOS, PC, and Android clients.
Lightweight TypeScript task & request handlers on schedules, or as system and app event hooks.
Heavy or non-standard workloads run as container profiles the platform orchestrates for you.
Declare tools in app config and let Lombok handle authentication and authorization via MCP.
An isolated Postgres schema with pgvector and pg_trgm — bring your own ORM or use Drizzle.
Built for AI
Apps are small, well-scoped, and backed by platform primitives — so a coding agent doesn't have to reinvent auth, storage, or task infrastructure to ship something real. Have a product in your workflow that's letting you down? Have your coding agent build a replacement, using our app-development docs and checklists to keep it on track.
Apps generally fall into two groups, depending on whether they're built for one team or meant to be shared with everyone.
Custom-built for internal or team-specific use cases. The escape hatch that lets you extend and integrate Lombok without limit — glue it to your stack, model your own workflows, ship exactly what your team needs.
Generically useful apps meant to be shared and distributed across instances. These come in three types — first-party, approved third-party, and general third-party — detailed just below.
Ecosystem apps differ by who builds them, who stands behind them, and how they reach your instance.
Built & supported by Lombok
Lombok-branded apps created and maintained by the Lombok team, held to the same bar as the core platform.
Community-built, endorsed by Lombok
Community apps validated and endorsed by Lombok, available by default in the app store and eligible for the app purchase system.
Community-built, opt-in
Community apps with no Lombok involvement. Requires explicitly opting-in the developer's repository as a source, and isn't eligible for the purchase rails.
| First-party | Approved | General | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built by | Lombok | Community | Community |
| Supported by | Lombok | Community | Developer |
| In app store by default | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Requires source opt-in | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Purchase-rails eligible | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
“General” apps require adding the developer's repository as a source before they'll appear in your instance.
The app ecosystem is early. Here's what we're building toward.
Make building and shipping an app so low-friction that the ecosystem fills itself out.
A handful of high-quality, free first-party apps that showcase what the platform can do.
Possibly one or two paid first-party apps for teams that want more out of the box.
Payment rails powering paid first-party apps and approved third-party apps alike.
Stop compromising.