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Who can see my app?

Nobody, unless you say so. Apps are private the moment they are created.

Every app you create here is private by default. Straight after deploying, you are the only person who can open it. Someone who has the exact web address still sees nothing.

This is the opposite of most hosting, where anything you deploy is immediately open to the whole internet — and to anyone scanning for it.

Your three options

Private. Only you. This is where every app starts.

Shared with specific people. You send a private link, or grant access to particular email addresses. The person opening it does not need a PicoCloud account — they prove it is them by email, or by holding the secret link. Perfect for showing a friend or a client.

Public. Anyone with the address can open it, including search engines. You have to choose this deliberately.

You change this on the app's page, under access.

Your AI assistant cannot make an app public

If you have connected an assistant, it can create apps, deploy them, read logs and roll them back. It cannot make an app public — that is blocked, and asking it to will not work.

Making something visible to the entire internet should be a decision a person makes on purpose, not something that can happen because of a misread instruction.

What we can see

We do not read your code or your secrets. Nobody at PicoCloud browses customer projects. If you write to support about a problem, we work from the error messages and the build log, not from your source.

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