# AppsXi

> AppsXi is a marketplace for signed Mac and Windows desktop apps. Developers keep their own signing identity; AppsXi checks every build, hosts it, takes payment through the developer's own Square account, issues licenses and serves updates.

Use the `appxi` CLI (`npx appxi check <installer>`) to run AppsXi's checks locally, and `npx appxi mcp` for a local MCP server.

## Docs

- [Getting started](https://appsxi.com/docs/getting-started): From a signed installer to a live AppsXi listing, and what happens on every release after that.
- [Package standard](https://appsxi.com/docs/package-standard): The formats, signing and notarization rules every AppsXi build must meet.
- [appxi.json](https://appsxi.com/docs/appxi-json): The package manifest that declares what your app is and what it needs.
- [Pipeline checks and fixes](https://appsxi.com/docs/pipeline): What AppsXi checks on every build, what each outcome means, and how to fix each finding.
- [Content ratings](https://appsxi.com/docs/content-ratings): Rate what your app shows with a short questionnaire. Games need a rating before they go live.
- [Updates](https://appsxi.com/docs/updates): AppsXi-hosted update feeds for Sparkle, WinSparkle, electron-updater and App Installer, with rollback.
- [Pricing, sales and bundles](https://appsxi.com/docs/pricing): Pricing models (free, freemium, free trial, paid, pay what you want), license types (personal, commercial, team, education), sales and launch discounts, AppsXi sales events, coupon codes, bundles, the buyer's cart and receipts.
- [Licensing](https://appsxi.com/docs/licensing): Level 0 download gating, the Level 1 license key API, trials, seats, license types and offline entitlement tokens. Level 2 is Sign in with AppsXi.
- [Sign in with AppsXi](https://appsxi.com/docs/sign-in-with-appxi): Licensing Level 2. One button, offline entitlement tokens, in-app trials and automatic unlock after purchase, for apps and plugins.
- [License bridge](https://appsxi.com/docs/license-bridge): Send AppsXi sales, refunds, revoked licenses and coupon redemptions to your own license server, signed, and return your own key.
- [Using your own license server](https://appsxi.com/docs/own-license-server): Sell an app that activates with your own keys: upload keys or coupon codes, or use the license bridge, and how free trials work when your server checks licenses.
- [Backend Kit](https://appsxi.com/docs/backend-kit): Remote config and feature flags, per-buyer storage, crash reports, usage counts, an AI proxy and announcements, with no server of your own.
- [Affiliates](https://appsxi.com/docs/affiliates): Let creators earn a commission on the sales they send you, paid by Square at the moment of sale. Nothing for you to pay out.
- [Sponsored placements](https://appsxi.com/docs/sponsored): Pay to show one of your apps in the labeled Sponsored slot on a category page or for search words. It never changes the charts.
- [Charts and badges](https://appsxi.com/docs/leaderboards): How AppsXi's Top Paid, Top Free and Rising charts rank apps, and how to embed your rank badge and social card.
- [Launch Day](https://appsxi.com/docs/launch-day): Book a launch day for a new app or a major update, get featured on AppsXi, and share your launch card.
- [Built with AI](https://appsxi.com/docs/built-with-ai): Say your app was built with AI coding tools, write a build log about how you made it, and join the monthly showcase.
- [Buyer support](https://appsxi.com/docs/support): Who answers buyers, the support email you need to sell, the support inbox, reply times, and your public developer page.
- [Developer API](https://appsxi.com/docs/developer-api): Tokens and endpoints for submitting builds from scripts and CI, and for reading your orders, licenses and reviews.
- [CLI](https://appsxi.com/docs/cli): appxi check, package, doctor, init, publish, status and mcp.
- [GitHub releases](https://appsxi.com/docs/github-action): Publish every GitHub release to AppsXi, with the AppsXi GitHub App or the publish action.
- [MCP and AI tools](https://appsxi.com/docs/mcp): The remote and local AppsXi MCP servers, and the skills, rules and AGENTS.md section for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex.

## Optional

- [Full docs in one file](https://appsxi.com/llms-full.txt)
- [How we verify apps](https://appsxi.com/how-we-verify)