App Catalog

App Catalog is the app repository that the Admins can maintain by adding or removing all the native, public, and VPP apps to distribute them to the managed devices through an application policy.

App Catalog facilitates Admins to do the following:

Add apps available in Google Play Store, Apple App Store, and native Windows and macOS apps
Delete obsolete apps that are no more compliant with the company rules

After modifying the catalog, the applications become available for distribution through Policies.

You can access App Catalog from WebUI by navigating to Apps > MCM > App Catalog.

App Type

Custom: Customized iOS/iPadOS apps that are created by the organization for unique needs of the business.
- Custom Apps are managed and licensed through Apple Business Manager and are not visible in the Apple App Store.
- Custom apps are distributed to any enrollment type without prompting.
Native: Apps that are staged by file (.msi for Windows and .pkg for macOS).
Public: Apps that are added from Google Play Store or Apple App Store.
- App Store public apps require prompting on unsupervised devices and do not work on User Enrollments (BYOD).
Private: Customized Android apps that are created by the organization for unique needs of the business. Private apps are hosted on the private area of the Google Play Store.
VPP: Apps that are managed in Apple Business under "Apps and Books", previously covered by the Apple Volume Purchase Program (VPP).

Add or remove Apps

Adding an app: You can add Android, iOS / iPadOS, macOS, and Windowsapps to the App Catalog.
After an app is successfully added to the App Catalog, you can view complete details of the app in various columns of the App Catalog including description of the app, operating system that the app belongs to, category and so on. To view the full description of the app, click . You can customize columns that you want to see on the grid.
Important: The MCM Servers column displays the number of MCM servers along with the server details on to which the app is successfully deployed. You can also click to view the deployment details. If the apps are not deployed on to MCM servers due to any issues, the MCM Servers column displays a link to the deployment details, where you can find the deployment status.

Removing an app

You can remove one or more Apps from the App Catalog. To do that:

Select the desired Apps.
From the blue action bar, click Delete.
Click OK to confirm.

Search, Filter, and Sort Apps

You can search and filter apps with strings, sort apps by column from the App Catalog data grid to quickly find you apps.

Update Details

You can fetch the latest version of the public Apps and VPP Apps and verify their details. To do that, from the App Catalog, click Update Details. Update process running

You can see the Update Status as Running when the update is in progress. Once the update is successful, the Update Status is displayed as Completed. Based on the status, you can also see further details such as the percentage of progress or the time taken to complete the update, start time or finish time.

If there are any issues during the update, an error message is displayed under Last Error, and you can debug with the details captured in the log file.

Last Synch Time: Displays the date and time of the latest update. By default, the update process starts once a week and updates ten apps once an hour. You can also configure the duration to trigger the update process through the following client settings:

Release Date: Displays the current release date of an App. This information is derived from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

Configure App Catalog language

All the apps are shown in a single language that can be configured at MCM app level using the global setting _WebUIAppEnv_APPSTORE_UPDATE_APPS_DELAY.