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# Embed an app in the sidebar

| **Plans:** Pro and Agency.

You can add another web application to Zendo as a sidebar item. It opens on its own page under `/apps/…`, so a spreadsheet, a design file or an internal tool sits right next to Requests and Orders instead of in a separate browser tab. Apps are added on **Settings › Portal › Sidebar content**.

## Add the app to a sidebar

1. Open **Settings › Portal › Sidebar content**.
2. Open the sidebar the app should appear in: the one created for **Internal users** if it is for your team, or the one created for **Clients** if it is for your client portal.
3. On **Elements**, select **Add new sidebar element** and choose **Apps**.
4. In **Select app**, choose an app from the examples, or **Add external app** for any other one.
5. Expand the new item. Change its **Label** if needed, set the **Slug**, the end of its address under `/apps/`, and paste the app's share or embed link into **Content**. To check the link, select **Preview content**.
6. Drag the item to where it should be. If it belongs to a group, nest it under that group's **Heading**.
7. If only some people should see the app, expand its row and use **Limit visibility of this item.**
8. Turn on **Live preview** to check the sidebar.
9. Select **Update** to publish the sidebar. Until then it stays in **Draft**, which no one sees.

![Select app: pick an example, or Add external app (4).](https://getzendo.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/kb-p13-select-app.webp =550x554)

![The app item: label, slug and content (5), Preview content, and Limit visibility of this item. (7). The new item already shows in the preview sidebar.](https://getzendo.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/kb-p13-app.webp =464x482)

## Apps and external links

In the sidebar, an app and an external link look the same. The difference is where they open:

- An **Apps** item opens inside Zendo, on its own page, with the sidebar still next to it.
- An **External Link** opens outside Zendo.

**Apps** can be used, for example, for tools that people work in all day, and **External Link** for pages they only look at now and then. See [Change what is in the client sidebar](https://help.getzendo.io/en/article/change-what-is-in-the-client-sidebar-19vnb7p/) and [Change your team's sidebar](https://help.getzendo.io/en/article/change-your-teams-sidebar-1n7llbp/).

## Showing the app to some people only

With the **Limit visibility of this item.** option, you choose who sees the app: selected clients and client teams. Nobody else sees it, and you do not need a second sidebar for this.

If the difference is bigger, for example a whole different sidebar for one client or one role, duplicate the sidebar and limit who sees the copy. The default sidebar is always visible to everyone. See [Show different things to different clients](https://help.getzendo.io/en/article/show-different-things-to-different-clients-td4yka/).

## Embedding Zendo in your website is a separate setting

This article is about showing another app inside Zendo. The opposite — showing Zendo inside your own website — works through **Embeddable domains** on **Settings › Workspace › Integrations**: the list of websites allowed to load Zendo in an iframe. Zendo cannot be embedded on a domain that is not on that list.

The code to embed a form is in the form's **⋯** menu in **Forms**, under **Embed form**. See [Embed a form on your own website](https://help.getzendo.io/en/article/embed-a-form-on-your-own-website-8fbsy6/).

## Related

- [Change what is in the client sidebar](https://help.getzendo.io/en/article/change-what-is-in-the-client-sidebar-19vnb7p/)
- [Change your team's sidebar](https://help.getzendo.io/en/article/change-your-teams-sidebar-1n7llbp/)
- [Show different things to different clients](https://help.getzendo.io/en/article/show-different-things-to-different-clients-td4yka/)
- [Embed a form on your own website](https://help.getzendo.io/en/article/embed-a-form-on-your-own-website-8fbsy6/)