feat(workspace): add applications

# Applications on Murena Workspace

Learn how to manage which apps appear in your Murena Workspace environment, hide the ones you do not need, and discover how we pick the catalog.

## Purpose of this guide

This guide explains how to control which applications are available on your Murena Workspace account, disabling those that you don't need and enabling those that provide functionality which is of interest to you. It also answers frequently asked questions about app availability.

## Available applications

The following apps are currently part of our Murena Workspace offering:

- Files

- Web e-mail (Rainloop)

- Contacts

- Calendar

- Photos

- Notes (Nextcloud)

- Tasks

- Activity

- Carnet (alternative notes app)

- Deck (project planning board)

- Bookmarks

- News (RSS reader)

## Why don’t we offer every app?

There are a few reasons why we do not enable every Nextcloud/Nextcloud-compatible app by default:

- Each application requires attention—testing, configuration tweaks, security reviews, and ongoing updates.

- Once we activate an app, we commit to supporting it in the long term, which increases the maintenance burden.

- We consider the security and performance impact of an app before enabling it globally.

- Too many apps would complicate the user experience, so we keep the catalog curated and usable.

We ran a survey last year and used the results to enable *Carnet*, *Deck*, *Bookmarks*, and *News*. *Maps* and *Forms* still need extra polishing before they reach Workspace.

## Can you enable application XYZ?

We run community polls from time to time. Create a topic on the [Community Forum](https://community.e.foundation/) and gauge interest—popular requests help us prioritize new apps.

## Premium subscribers and apps

Premium storage customers do not currently gain exclusive apps, but we may unlock services with higher hardware needs or licensing requirements in the future.

## Reordering applications

You can rearrange the navigation order of your apps by dragging the icons while on the Workspace dashboard. The video below shows how easy it is to reorder applications:

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    name="Reordering applications"

    mp4="/images/howtos/ecloud/reordering_applications.mp4"

    webm="/images/howtos/ecloud/reordering_applications.webm"

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## Main features

- **Applications:** Files, Gallery, Notes, Tasks, Calendar, and Contacts keep your data synced across Web and mobile.

- **Applications:** Files, Gallery, Notes, Tasks, Calendar, and Contacts keep your data synced across Web and mobile; manage available apps on [Applications](/workspace/applications).

- **Email:** Sign in with `support@murena.io` or your own `username@murena.io` identity to reach the team and receive mission-critical messages.

- **Hide My Email:** Generate disposable forwarding addresses from your account settings to mask your real inbox. Learn more in [Configure email on Murena Workspace](/workspace/email#hide-my-email).

- **Vault:** Visit [Murena Vault](/workspace/murena-vault) for encrypted document storage protected by a dedicated Vault password.

## Purpose of the document

This guide explains how to control which applications are available on your Murena Workspace account, disabling those that you don't need and enabling those that provide functionality which is of interest to you.

It also tries to cover some of the frequently asked question around app availability on Murena Workspace.

## FAQ on available applications

### Which applications are currently available on Murena Workspace?

   - Files

   - Web e-mail (Rainloop)

   - Contacts

   - Calendar

   - Photos

   - Notes (Nextcloud)

   - Tasks

   - Activity

   - Carnet (alternative notes app)

   - Deck (project planning board)

   - Bookmarks

   - News (RSS reader)

### Why don't you offer all possible applications?

For different reasons:

 - All need checking and sometimes tweaking. Some don't work out of the box or require external components.

 - Once we enable them, we commit to the app being available in the future, keeping it updated and offering support to our users.

 - We need to consider security and performance impact of a given app if enabled for everyone.

 - It would complicate the UI and usability of the Murena Workspace.

We [ran a survey](https://community.e.foundation/t/adding-new-apps-at-ecloud-global/12404/69) last year and we used the results to enable _Carnet_, _Deck_, _Bookmarks_ and _News_.\

_Maps_ and _Forms_ need further polish before they can be made available.

### Can you enable application XYZ?

We will run similar polls from time to time. You can create a topic on the [Community Forum](https://community.e.foundation/) and see if other users agree with such app being useful. We will then notice popular topics and evaluate the proposal.

### Do premium subscribers have access to more or better apps?

Not for now, but this may change in the future. For instance, we may offer apps that have some higher hardware requirements (like streaming music), or a licensed limit on the number of users.

## Configuring application order

You can decide the order of the applications in the navigation by just dragging and dropping the apps icons like the video below:

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    poster_image="/images/howtos/ecloud/reordering_applications.png"

    name="Reordering applications"

    mp4="/images/howtos/ecloud/reordering_applications.mp4"

    webm="/images/howtos/ecloud/reordering_applications.webm"

%}

    - From Google-backed phones: en/workspace/migrate/migrate-data-from-google-cloud.md

  - Configure:

    - Email: en/workspace/email.md

    - Applications: en/workspace/applications.md

    - 2FA: en/workspace/configure-2fa.md

    - Premium: en/workspace/premium.md

    - Vault: en/workspace/murena-vault.md