Updated 9 October 2026

Put a page you built with AI on your phone, like an app

A habit tracker, a checklist or a calculator you use every day can sit on your home screen and open like an app, with no app store involved. It needs one thing first: a web address.

First, give it an address

Adding to the home screen works on a page open in the browser at a web address, not on a file in your downloads or an email. So put the page somewhere that serves it over https: a static host, or Solta, in the box at the foot of this page. If it is an HTML file, here are the ways to give it a link. If it is a React file from Claude, it has to be built into a page first.

On an iPhone or iPad

Open the page in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen, and confirm the name.

On Android

Open the page in Chrome, tap the three-dot menu, then Add to Home screen, or Install app where Chrome offers it.

On a computer

In Chrome or Edge, a page that can be installed shows an install button in the address bar. In Safari on a Mac, choose File, then Add to Dock.

A shortcut, or an app

Any page can go on a home screen, but what it does there depends on the page and the browser. A plain page may open in an ordinary browser tab, like a bookmark. An installable page opens in a window of its own without the address bar, with its own name and icon, and can work offline. Two files make the difference:

A web app manifest: a small JSON file, linked from the page, with the app's name, its icons, the address it starts at, and display set to standalone so it opens without the browser around it.
A service worker: a script that keeps a copy of the files on the device, which is what lets the page open with no connection.

A page Claude or ChatGPT built usually has neither. You can ask for both and upload them beside the page.

On Solta

Turn on Install as an app in a site's settings. It is on every plan, and nothing in the file changes: Solta adds the manifest and the offline copy itself.

Visitors get a small Install app button in the bottom-left corner. Where the browser has its own install prompt, in Chrome, Edge and Samsung Internet, the button opens it. On an iPhone or iPad, and in Safari on a Mac, it says the one step to take. Closing the button hides it for 30 days.
What the site saves in the browser, such as a tracker's ticks, stays on that device between visits.
It works offline with the last version that device opened. Online, it asks for the live version first, so a version you publish is never hidden behind an old copy.
Its icon is the site's initial on a color taken from its address, and its name is the site's title, unless the site brings a manifest of its own.
Who can open it doesn't change. A Password, Invited or Team site still asks at the door. A Private site installs only on a device one of its people chose with Open on this device, which lets that browser open it for 30 days.

Everything installing a site does, and doesn't.

What to expect

What it saves stays on that device, in that browser. Ticks made on your phone don't appear on your laptop.
On a phone, removing it works like removing any app: press and hold the icon, then remove it.