Classic Apps

Legacy Classic Apps in Glide

As of March 2023, our flagship product, previously referred to as Glide Pages, is now called Apps, becoming our officially supported and recommended product. Legacy mobile apps are now called Classic Apps, and can no longer be created. Existing Classic Apps will continue to function but do not receive updates from our product team.

Classic Apps no longer supported

At this time, Glide is limiting customer support only to critical issues that are affecting all customers. If you need support with your app, please reach out to our community.

Context

Glide Pages launched late 2021 as a large-screen companion to Glide Apps. What we initially meant as two complementary products came into conflict as we noticed users struggle to choose one over the other. A year later, we decided to evolve Glide toward one unified solution for building beautiful, powerful, adaptive apps that work across any device or screen size.

Differences between Apps and Classic Apps

New Glide apps are adaptive, meaning they automatically detect and optimize for the device and screen size of the end user. Glide's latest most powerful features are exclusively available in Apps, such as:

  • Big Tables: scale your data up to 10M rows.

  • Actions: enhanced features that allow copying, reusing, and displaying all actions in a single view.

  • Integrations: connect to your favorite tools to build powerful workflows.

Migrating from Classic Apps to Apps

To migrate from a Classic App to an App, we recommend creating a new app from your existing data. Check out our instructions about creating new apps from existing data in our Duplicating Apps guide.

When creating a new app from existing data, some parts of the app will need to be rebuilt. All of our most-used Classic components are available in Apps, and the Glide team is hard at work developing new features and components to make apps as impactful as they can be.

If you are unsure how a feature or component in your Classic App will translate to a new Glide app, reach out to our community for help.

Frequently Asked Questions

Have a question about Classic Apps? Ask the Glide community.

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