About Sidestep

Sidestep is a directory of apps that run in your phone's web browser. There is no large app file to download and no store account to sign into — you open a link, and if you want to keep the app, you add it to your home screen and it opens like any other one.

If you are looking for an app, this is most useful when a store has put a wall in front of you — the app never launched in your country, your phone has no room left for another download, or the device belongs to your school or your employer. An app that runs in the browser sidesteps all three.

If you build one of these apps, this is somewhere it can be found. Browser apps have no shelf: they are absent from the places people search for software, so a good one stays invisible unless someone already knows its name. A listing here is a page about your app, written to be read by search engines and by people.