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Your Coin as an App ​

Holders can add your coin page to their home screen, and it installs as your coin's own app: your icon, your ticker (your coin's short name, like PEPE) under it, opening straight to your page.

It works for every coin page, on every plan, with nothing to set up.

What a holder sees ​

Home screen iconYour coin's logo, cropped to a square. With no logo, the first letter of your ticker.
Name under the iconYour ticker, e.g. PEPE. The full name (e.g. Pepe the Frog) appears where the phone has room for it, such as the app switcher.
Opening itYour page, full screen, without browser bars.
NotificationsArrive as your app. See Notifications for your holders.

A coin on several chains can be installed per chain: yourcoin.crown.info/base installs as its own app.

How holders install it ​

The Install button sits in the top-right of your page, next to the chain selector and the account button. Anyone can use it, signed in or not. It shows wherever the browser can install a website, so not inside an already-installed app, in desktop Firefox, or in iPhone browsers other than Safari.

The invitation. Your page offers to install:

  • right after someone joins your community, and
  • on their second visit to your page.

On Android and desktop the invitation is a small card, Add $YOURCOIN to your home screen, in your page's accent color. On an iPhone, where websites can't install themselves, it shows the two steps, Share then Add to Home Screen, with your logo and name. A browser sees the invitation at most twice.

What you control, and what the phone controls ​

You control, through your normal coin page settings:

  • The icon, by changing your logo. Phones pick up a new icon when they next check, which can take a day, and don't always redraw one already on a home screen.
  • The name: your ticker and coin name, or your own on the Developer plan, in beta, or Partner.
  • The splash color shown while the app opens, from your page's custom background color. Without one it's a dark neutral.

The phone controls:

  • The icon's shape. iPhones round the corners; Android may crop it to a circle or another shape. Keep the important part of your logo in the middle.
  • Its own install prompt. Browsers decide whether to show one.
  • The steps on an iPhone. A website can't install itself on iOS; the holder uses the Share button.

Brand the app ​

Branding needs the Developer plan, which is in beta and free while it is, or Partner. The coin's owner, or a manager they set, brands the app in the style editor, under Home screen app:

  • App name: up to 45 characters, shown where the phone has room (the app switcher, the install sheet).
  • Label under the icon: up to 12 characters.
  • Bar color and splash color: the app's title bar, and the screen shown while it opens.
  • Long-press shortcuts: Trade (opens the trade sheet) and Get alerts (opens the window to join your community), offered when someone long-presses the icon on Android or right-clicks it on desktop.
  • Offer this page as an app: on by default. Turn it off to remove both the Install button and the invitation.

The branding applies while the owner or one of the coin's managers is on that plan. If the plan lapses, the app goes back to its default name and colors; your settings are kept, and Reset works on any plan. Phones pick up a new name and colors within about a day.

The Chain Daddy watermark ​

The installed app carries no Chain Daddy name or icon on any plan. The small Chain Daddy logo on the page itself follows your plan, as it does in a browser. See Watermark.