Help & docs

How to do the main things in the Apparently Mac app, one task at a time.

Get started
  1. Download Apparently for Mac and open it.
  2. Create an account or sign in from the app’s start screen. The browser opens, and the app is linked when you finish.
Start a build (Build › App)
  1. Open Build › App and type what you want to build, then send it. It goes into your app's one session.
  2. A request that needs more than one small edit opens the planning screen first. Read the plan, answer its questions, then build.
  3. If something is not set up yet, a walkthrough opens one step at a time: models, your repository, hosting and a database, the states you serve, counsel, and the device your players use most.
  4. Each step has its own action and Not now. Skipping a step blocks nothing.
  5. App is one session for changes to the whole app. Each page of your app has its own session, listed under App. Open one to carry on where you left off.
See every page of your app (Pages)
  1. Open Build, then a page under App, or All pages for every one.
  2. Each page of your app is listed with what it still needs.
  3. View a page, or Edit it in that page's own session. It is the same session every time.
Get approved by Finix or Approvely (Settings › Payments)
  1. Open Settings › Payments, or press Payments on the Legal Opinion page. Finix and Approvely each have a card with your progress and the one next step.
  2. To start, press the card’s action to ask that processor to pre-qualify you. There is no commitment.
  3. To send your file, choose Share in Payments, pick Finix or Approvely, and share it with them.
Watch your database (Settings › Database)
  1. Open Settings › Database, or press the database line under Build › App, and link your database.
  2. Read-only checks run every hour on your Mac, and each run is kept on record.
  3. Settings › Database shows exactly what leaves your Mac.
Keep your documents current (Documents)
  1. Documents › Monitoring watches your public and company documents.
  2. Documents › Manage keeps your official rules, terms, privacy policy, responsible gaming page, disclosures and company documents.
Meet with counsel (Max plan)
  1. On the Max plan, Counsel appears in the sidebar once it is turned on for your account.
  2. Open Counsel › Meetings and schedule a meeting.
  3. Agendas and minutes are kept on the same page.
Change your settings
  1. Press ⌘, or choose Settings from the account menu.
  2. General, Billing, Connections, and Models & agents each have their own section.
  3. Press ⌘/ to see every keyboard shortcut.
Update the app
  1. Choose Check for updates in the account menu. The app checks right away and tells you what it found.
  2. When a newer version is ready, press Update at the bottom of the sidebar. The app installs it and restarts.

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