✅ Apps

Wavebox lets you add any website or web service as an app. Apps are basically 'boosted' tabs with extra features allowing you to stay signed in, show badges, get notifications, and quickly switch between multiple accounts. Here’s how to add, manage, and customize apps.

App Overview

• An app can be anything with a URL, from Asana to an Excel file.
• Every app belongs to a Space. Spaces let you stay signed-in to one or more accounts of the same type simultaneously, such as Gmail for work and another for home.
• Apps can be 'Integrated' or 'Linked':
  • Integrated apps update badges and notifications when sleeping.
  • Linked Apps update badges and notifications only when awake or if the auto-wake (intermittent wake) feature is enabled.
• App icons are permanent and stay where you put them.
• App icons are displayed:
  • In the Group tabstrip on the left, or far right.
  • In the Webdock:
    • Either as the only app in a Group.
    • Or, under the Group icon.
• App icons can be oval or rounded squares. You can choose your preference in Settings > Groups & Apps > App Display Mode.
• Apps have a HOME URL you can return to by clicking the house icon top left.

App Features (compared to tabs)

• Apps are customizable in appearance:
  • Icon
  • Border color
  • Name
• Apps have custom badges and notifications:
  • Display unread badges and counts
  • Custom notification sounds
• Apps have their own custom Settings
  • Home URL
  • Sleep settings and auto-wake.
  • Can be selected as Wavebox's start-up app

Apps have their own tooltip (hover) menus

• Quick links to sleep, split, mute
• Saved Items
• Tabs and History
• Apps can be included in Link Engine Rules.
  • Control where inbound/outbound links open.
• Apps appear in the Mini Menu.
  • Under tabs for Unreads, Unified and Notifications.

Add an App

1. Tab Boost - right-click on any tab, or any page.
2. + in the webdock - create a new group with a new app at the same time.
3. + in the Group tabstrip - add another app to an existing group.

1) Tab Boost

• Right-click on any tab, or any page.
• Select 'Boost into App'.
• In the pop-up, choose a matched app from the App Store or click on 'Create Custom Weblink App'.
  • Edit the app name
  • Change the Group from the dropdown (if required)
  • Choose a different Space from the dropdown (if required)
  • Click on the [Boost] button to finish.
• The app appears as an icon in the tabstrip.

2) Click on + in the Webdock or Tabstrip

• Open the Add App Pop-Up
  • Either click on + in the webdock. Give the group a name and click on 'Start with an App' button.
  • Or click on the group icon, then hover over + in the group tabstrip.
• Search for an App in the Store
  • In the search field, start typing the app name.
  • Click on a matched app from the icons shown.
  • If there are no matches, click on 'Go to App Store' or 'Create a Custom App'.
• Paste in a URL
  • General Match - Click on a match from the store. This uses the app's general login URL as the homepage for the app.
  • Specific Match - Click on 'Add a Custom App'. This uses a specific URL as the homepage for the app.
• Create a Custom App
  • Click on 'Create your own App'.
  • From the Add an App pop-up:
    • Upload an icon for your app (optional, you can do this later)
    • Check and edit the URL. This will be the home URL for your app.
    • Give your app a name
    • Click on the 'Add' button.

Customize App Icon Appearance

• Either: Right-click on an app to show the context menu. From there you can:
  • Click on the icon top-left to show the icon picker.
    • Create an icon from the icon sets
    • Upload your own icon
  • Click on the name to edit it.
  • Choose a color from the palette.
• Or: Right-click on an app and go to > Settings > App Settings. From there you can:
  • Rename the app
  • Change the icon/color
  • Adjust notifications and sleep settings

Move and Delete an App

• Drag app icons up/down, left/right to rearrange them in the webdock and tabstrip.
• Right-click on an app > 'Move app to' >
  • Webdock - places the icon under the group icon.
  • Tabstrip (left/right) - moves the icon to the far left/right of the tabstrip.
  • Its own Group - creates a new Group in the webdock with the app in it.
• Right-click on an app > 'Move to new window'. It will open as a new tab in a secondary window.
• Right-click on an app > 'Delete App'. Or remove an entire group to delete all apps within it.

Customize Notifications & Sleeping

• Notifications: Toggle badges and sounds under App Settings > Badges & Notifications.
• Upload your own notification sound.
• Sleep: Wavebox “sleeps” inactive apps to save memory. If you prefer them always active, turn off sleep under App Settings > Sleep.

Apps and Spaces

Learn more about adding multiple app accounts of the same type here.

Adding an App that's already in Wavebox

• If you try to add more apps of the same type, Wavebox will suggest using a new space for them. This is only necessary if you need to stay signed-in to multiple accounts e.g. Gmails for home, work, and clients. Learn more about Spaces here. If you don't sign-in to an app or the app always uses the same login email you can add as many as you like.
• Add an app in any of the ways suggested above
• In the 'Add an App' pop-up window, select the correct space.
• If the warning side-panel appears, click on 'Use the same space' button.
• The app will be added.

Troubleshooting

• Exclamation Mark (!)
  • Sign in again if the app shows an exclamation badge, or disable the badge in Settings if you don’t need it.
• Wrong Account
  • If you’re opening a Gmail app and see the wrong account, sign out of all accounts in that space and sign back in with the correct one first. Use separate spaces for multiple accounts.
• Greyed-Out Icons
  • Apps are sleeping. Click to wake or disable sleep in App Settings.
• Cannot Delete or Remove an App
  • It could be that the tabstrip is locked. To unlock it, right-click on any Group in the webdock and select 'Unlock Webdock and Toolbars' at the bottom of the menu. Then try 'right-click > delete' on the app icon again.