Ok, I decided to look at all the Apps in the SharePoint App store last week. This started as a little harmless click on each app, download it, install it, play with it, rate it. Very simple. After about the first 20, I decided…this sucks. So I said, there has to be a way to automate the install of all the Apps! So, two days later…I successfully built a tool that will download all the apps, their details and their app cab file. Everything gets recorded into an App details database and the files are saved to a configurable directory. I will tell you, it is pretty sweet to look at an app content page that has all the apps loaded on it without doing anything.
I learned a *ton* as I went down this little rabbit hole. The first thing I learned, that you won't find anywhere else, is that each farm will initialize itself with a file from the office.microsoft.com servers. You can find this initialization xml here:
https://office.microsoft.com/Config15
The XML file defines all the end points that the Office Apps layer will use when performing various tasks. As you can see, the file has a lot of endpoints.
When your goal is to download and install an app, many of the steps behind the scenes are abstracted away from you. There are many steps involved:
- Open your site, browse to the "Add an app" link
- Browse to the "SharePoint Store". In reality, this is a page hosted on your sharepoint server that is simply making JSON calls to the office servers
- The page will request the list of all Apps using (http://spservername/_layouts/15/storefront.aspx?task=GetApps&bm=US&cm=en%2DUS&category=&free=0&sort=7&query=&catalog=0). This JSON is the list of all apps. There are currently 240 of them in the US marketplace (at the bottom of this post is a CSV file with all the app details). My code knows how to pull this information and save to a database, so I have a full list of all apps and all of their details. This was helpful in my review process so that I didn't need to create some massive spreadsheet with all the details typed in!
- Clicking on an app will pull down more specific details about the app using this url (http://spservername/_layouts/15/storefront.aspx?task=GetAppDetails&bm=US&cm=en%2DUS&appid=APPID&catalog=0"). This app detail gives you the information like if it is a paid app, whether it includes a trial license capability, etc.
- Once you are on a page that allows you to "Add" an app, you click the "Add It" button. What happens here is a post back occurs on your SP Server and a redirect is generated to the office.microsoft.com marketplace.
- When you arrive at the marketplace, cookies will be interrogated to see if you have logged in via LiveID. If you have not, you are redirected to the LiveID servers for auth
- Once authenticated, you are returned to the marketplace using a special cookie identifier to rebuild your session
- You are then prompted to confirm that you really want the app, upon confirmation, you are redirected back to your sharepoint site via a HTTP GET with all the necessary license details in the querystring
- Your SharePoint server will take these details and do a validation post behind the scenes to confirm that the app and license match – there is no tricking it here
- Once the license is validated, it will save the information to the AppManagement database tied to your App Management Service Application
- It will then intitiate a download of the app's cab file from the office servers using this url (https://office.microsoft.com/client/15/appinstallinfo/query?cmu=" + contentMarket + "&clientToken=" + rawXMLEntitlementToken + "&ret=0&av=" + av + "&build=" + build + "&origin=" + origin + "&corr=" + corr;). this url contains your clientToken which is the validation that you have purchased the app from the marketplace.
- This page will redirect you to the download page and in the body of the response will be the app cab file.
- Once downloaded, the file is installed into the target
- In a separate step you must trust the application. I was eventually able to automate this part. I attempted to do it via CSOM, but I get the dreaded "Sideloading of apps is not enabled on this site" error. Bummer, no way to get an appinstance or productid from CSOM.
So all those steps! I didn't want to do that for every App (if you were to do this manually, it is going to take you a full day or two!), sooo…I built a tool for it. By the way, it takes almost an hour to download and install everything! This tools has the following features:
- Downloads all app details from the App Store into a database (this is easy via one JSON request)
- Allows you to Install an App from the App Store (you can pass it a list of the ones you want it to activate) – this is handy for building an environment that matches your production environment. Or possibly rebuilding another environment
- Downloads all App CAB files for all installed apps
- Allows you to activate a list of apps on a web of your choosing (this would be after you have installed them)
- Tool Side-Effect – This tool allows you to bypass the validation checking of the feature requirements on the App Detail page. In otherwards, you can purchase free apps and download their CAB file, even if you can't use it because it is O365 targeted
- Both free and trial apps are supported, did not put in support for selecting a payment method to buy an app that didn't have a trial…that would be pretty dumb!
- Supports on-prem and O365
I did try to be sneaky and hack the purchase API. It passes a special query string with the price and purchase model. I tried to make everything a free app, but it was too smart for that. They got lucky…
I have some clean up to do on the tool to make it something I would give out to the masses but it does work and works both for on-prem and O365. However, I'm also thinking if I do publish it, I may make it a product. Think…iOS app automated updater type of thing. There isn't a UI that says, "Update All" in the SharePoint store interface.
Some things that suck about the Apps APIs:
- AppId – the AppId is used everywhere (on the store, in the purchase api), except in SharePoint (well it is at least saved in the databse)! When a basic user wants to add or remove an app, it is not the AppId that you use, it is an AppInstanceId, or the completely different ProductId passed in the license. Consistency is key here and this needs changed, see my next items…
- For automating the "Trust It" part of the process – You can't get the product id to pass into the appdownload function when you want an app to be installed in your web. You have to query the app management database *directly* to get the product id. I think this is stupid. You should just be able to pass the AssetId to get the app to install in the web. This is probably one of the reasons there are no CSOM methods to install an already existing app in a web (without side-loading it). This needs fixed!
- Adding an app – each time you add an app to a web, the content database that contains that web will download a copy of the app (from the office app store on the internet) into the database. There is no central repository for these apps by default. The AppCatalog site is needed for this, but I don't think it is downloaded into the catalog and I'm pretty sure it will pull it from the catalog into the local database anyway, this is a waste of space.
- Uninstalling apps – there is no easy way to get all the AppInstanceIdsproductIds. I had to query the database directly to get them to uninstall all apps after I was done testing. The APIs do not expose this so its a manual process without my tool.
- There is a database leak in the AppPrincipals table. Each time you add and remove an app, a new entry is added, but not removed on removal. not a big deal, but could cause problems later and needs to be fixed.
- App name versus App name versus app part name – this was weird, there are cases where these are all different. Makes it confusing when other people have similarly named appsapp parts. Microsoft needs some governance here. Also wondering what happens when you upload an app part with the same name as someone else? Bet its not good….#badhacker
- When you have so many App parts in the UI, you really need a search feature! Clicking the next arrow 10 times to get to the end just isn't cool.
- Apps that are deployed to Azure require O365 and don't work on-prem, you need special OAuth tokens to pass to the remote Azure app
So how do I rate all these Apps? And what is some common things I see as issues with the App Model? It's pretty obvious that no one has ever posted a "here's how you write an App the proper way" type of document. Lots of technical "how to's", but no common sense "must dos". Well, here you go on my observations:
- Business – Come on Man! Those of you that put an app out there and are charging for it when someone put one out there for free are just stupid. Do an analysis before you put something in the app store. Don't waste your time or other people's time! It's called a SWOT analysis by the way for you non-MBA types.
- Complexity – There are very few sophisticated apps in the marketplace. Lots of simple ones, but the ones that did put in effort, really show.
- Feature Enablement – Its unfortunate that the SP Store page doesn't tell you what you need as far as feature pre-reqs to install some apps. It just says "You can't install that app". In the app details (which are hidden on the page and in the json), it will tell you what features are needed that you must enable (for instance, project server feature must be installed for some apps). It would be nice if it gave you the option to enable the missing feature directly on the page
- Navigation – If you have an Azure hosted app, put the damn navigation at the top to get back to my site!
- Scalability – Most apps use an App list for data storage. I can see these lists filling up with many many items over a long period of time. This will be problematic.
- Ribbon – higher quality apps integrate with the ribbon in some manner. you should think how your app will do this
- App Testing – It was painful to add a new page for every app I wanted to test and I can see trying to add many "cool" app parts to the same page can clutter the page
- Preview features – Please don't make us go to a page with your app part on it. You should at least give us the courtesy of a preview tab!
- Centralized data storage – The biggest issue I see with apps is there is no sandbox area that is shared storage. It is completely unacceptable to have the same app deployed on multiple sites with each one getting its own list
- Trials – People that publish an app without a trial and have a price on it…good luck with that. I'm not buying your App and no one else should either, don't buy an app unless you can trial it first
Before we get into my rating, some interesting "awards" for the apps that I put together:
- Best overall App – this was tough, but in the end, Nintex has had that up there for a while and it is really sweet design
- Most Expensive App – Booking of Resources – really…WTF…$899.99 for that piece of #$^&$?
- Most over-prices apps – SONJAsAPPS
- Most Apps of same type – it was like a tie between image carousel apps and map apps…how many of these things do we need people?!? Come on man!
- Most Fun App –
Cheezburgers - Most Creative App – Colour Lab
- Highest Quality Apps – Layer2
- Lowest Quality Apps – Point8020
- Dumbest App – Spallery
- Most Complex – Kodak Imaging App
- Most Publisher Apps – Microsoft with 22, SONJAsAPPS with 17 but they don't count, so SR1 Development Limited get the award with 11
- Notable Mention – Avior GEO Location Utility
And finally, my CJG rating of all apps in the Office marketplace (at least the ones that are free and with trial, 30 of the 240 do not have a trial, those are the lame ones):
| Title | Rank | Price | Comment |
| Corporate News App | 5 | Free | By far the best news app I have seen. You need this one! |
| Auctions Lite | 5 | $1.49 | I can see HR or teams having fund rasiers with this. It’s a pretty sweet app! |
| BPMN Quick Guide | 5 | Free | Awesome techneic of delivering document based content. |
| BlackCompass Visualizer for SharePoint | 5 | Free | If you liked the Chart web part, you will love this stuff! Runs against list data |
| Nintex Workflow for Office 365 | 5 | Free | They are crazy partiers, but damn, they build some sweet apps (this is free???) |
| ODATA QueryBuilder | 5 | Free | Pretty sweet tool. Very nice usage of SharePoint App model! |
| My Places | 5 | Free | Its simple, its sweet and it works. Very nice. Good for an HR page or two. |
| Layer2 Cloud Connector App for SharePoint | 5 | $249.99 | The design and UI is amazing with this app. The auth support is even better, o365 or ADFS. This is a real app. |
| User Redirect Plus | 5 | $9.99 | Very ingenious app, definitely distinguished itself from the pack. |
| Cheezburgers | 5 | Free | At first I was like WTF is Cheezburgers, then I knew. Awesome. Content is king, especially funny content. |
| Gimmal Drop Zone App for SharePoint 2013 | 5 | Free | Oh yeah, this is good stuff. Needs an on-prem version |
| Colour Lab | 5 | Free | Awesome. A web based HexFinder tool…love it |
| HelloSign | 5 | Free | This has HUGE potential. App is free, but the service is not |
| Layer2 Term Set Glossary | 5 | $7.99 | Layer2 knows how to build apps, they need to be encouraged to build more (oh, I guess I just did) |
| HelloFax | 5 | Free | This has HUGE potential. App is free, but the service is not |
| BC Site Tools | 5 | Free | I LOVE code generation tools, this one is far better than the single piece meal ones |
| SharePoint Manager 2013 Online | 5 | $99.99 | Awesome. Works on-prem too |
| Avior GEO Location Utility | 5 | Free | OK, now we are talking! Something that really adds value. You can add GeoColumns to your lists! |
| ND|TagSearch | 5 | $3.99 | I hated that we lost the vectors in SP2013 search, but this tool tried to replace our lost functionality with document tag clouds |
| The Needs App | 4 | $29.99 | High performance selling was a big thing at IBM, an app that improves people thoughts about customer management is always good |
| BS WordPress Blog Reader | 4 | Free | COntent is king, any way to get your content to users is a good thing. |
| REST API Demo | 4 | Free | A nice tool to help those of you just starting out with REST APIs in SP2013 |
| Quote of The Day | 4 | Free | Again, I love content push like this. As long as a bad quote doesn't show up like "Shit happens" |
| vCURRENCY | 4 | Free | Allows you to put currency rates on a page |
| Dropbox Import | 4 | Free | Allows you to move your dropbox items into SharePoint libraries |
| Reports and Documents Generator | 4 | $39.99 | Sweet doc generation from sharepoint list data |
| AE Daily Dilbert App Part | 4 | Free | Fun app, the image displays so it works |
| SofTract Copy/Move Items | 4 | $1.49 | Integrates into the listitem ribbon, allows you to move items. Cool |
| QRCode App for SharePoint | 4 | Free | Generates a QR Code from statis app part property. Would be nice if you could generate based on querystring or form parameter |
| HP ePrint | 4 | Free | This is sweet! Think moble device printing! |
| metaEngine Easy Search | 4 | $1.99 | Shows how to work with search REST APIs. Provides some more simple UI elements than a search center. |
| In Out Board | 4 | $1.99 | What a refreshing app. If you had Lync you'd already have this 🙂 |
| Countdown Timer to Any Date | 4 | $1.49 | Nice, simple, valuable – you could still do this with basic javascript, but…whatever |
| AvePoint Task & Calendar Sync for Office 365 | 4 | Free | App is free, but you need an AvePoint account. Neat idea |
| My SharePoint Sites | 4 | $1.99 | Oh yeah…this is a good one! Navigation in sharepoint is soo bad |
| Decision Maker | 4 | Free | Not an everyday business usage type of thing, but fun. |
| Facebook Wall | 4 | Free | Cool, nice documentation |
| ShareIt | 4 | Free | Not bad, only app that I have seen that does this in the app store |
| World Clock and Weather | 4 | Free | Watch out bamboo web parts…there is a new sheriff in town!. Shows weather |
| CarouselSlider | 4 | Free | This looks just like the eBay news slider we built. Only ours works no matter where you put it! |
| SPoodle Scheduling | 4 | Free | Not bad, simple and useful. |
| Facebook Integration | 4 | Free | Couldn't get this to work, but it looks pretty sweet. From what I can tell it will export your Pages library content to facebook |
| SharePoint File Explorer | 4 | Free | A simple site explorer that is better than the out of the box one |
| Infoware Plus Forget Not+ | 4 | $9.99 | Has some cool graphics, I can see people using this. Just need an on-premise version. |
| Tip of the Day | 4 | Free | Pushing content that helps is great! |
| Exam Maker | 4 | Free | Nice. Now if it would feed into an LMS, even better |
| ConnectWithUs | 4 | Free | Simple effective app part for showing all your social media accounts |
| KODAK Info Activate Solution Limited Edition | 4 | $9.99 | Ugg…SilverLight? Really? Poor Kodak…always so slow to adapt the ONLY app that forces you to download and install something. And what is with the title? That all being said…damn this is a nice app! |
| Business Contact Tracker | 4 | Free | Lots of apps like this, but the UI really stands out with this one, very nice |
| Tweeting for Dollarz | 4 | Free | Very cool idea! |
| Competition Tracker | 4 | Free | Nicely built app. I see uses for this. Too bad its O365 only |
| Social Nucleus | 4 | Free | Cool! Shows a social graph of your social contacts |
| Tip Of The Day Plus | 4 | $1.49 | Allows you to put in your own tips |
| InfoBus eForm | 4 | $49.99 | Wasn't aware that infopath rendering didn't work in O365? These guys have a form editing solution |
| TimeOff Lite | 4 | $4.99 | ’d pay for this one. It does have some nice value to it. Worth checking out HR departments! It would get a 5 but I think most major companies have ERP systems that keep track of this sort of thing |
| Documents shared with me | 4 | Free | Allows you to see your skydrive documents that others have shared with you |
| VisualSP (Beta) – In-Context Help for End Users | 4 | Free | The fact it doesn’t simply redirect you our of your sharepoint instance is great. It integrates into the ribbon of lists to show context sensitive help items. Nice. |
| Poll App | 4 | Free | I can see this being used by orgs. A safer bet than using the Survey list. |
| Social Squared Beta | 3 | Free | A different UI thrown over discussion boards. You lose the reputation features if you use this. |
| CSV Uploader | 3 | $4.99 | Very simple appUI, I can see use for this in orgs. |
| “Napa” Office 365 Development Tools | 3 | Free | SDK for development |
| Important Messages | 3 | Free | Just wish there was shared storage for cross websiteweb app display |
| Yammer App for SharePoint | 3 | Free | Until Yammer gets there act together and plays nicely with the Redmond teams, they deserver mid range grades. |
| Google Office Locator | 3 | Free | Maybe some value. Not sure. Too many map apps that do similar functianlity |
| Anniversary Timeline | 3 | Free | Most people are getting private about their lives, not sure this app has much value |
| Bright Banner | 3 | Free | Has a great documentation page and has some real world value. |
| News Ticker | 3 | Free | Would be nice if you could configure to pull from remote account to display the values across all the app parts across all webssitesweb apps |
| SideKick 365 xRM | 3 | $119.99 | If you don’t already have SalesForce.com or CRM Dynamics and are a small company…why not. Go for it. Price is crazy though… |
| SPLatestNews | 3 | Free | Not sure why anyone would have this on their sharepoint pages.. Its like a google feed of the top news by category |
| HTML5 Video WebPart | 3 | $2.99 | Simple HTML5 video player |
| Instant Consulting Practice | 3 | Free | Evidentially I'm ready to be a consultant – good for single person O365 lawyers, but that's it |
| Tab Display | 3 | $2.99 | Different spin on a news app. Only tab app, but competes against accordians. Not sure I'd pay 2.99 for this |
| Accordion Display App | 3 | Free | Cool app I can see some people using this |
| Chat Web Part Touch | 3 | Free | If you don’t have a instant messaging platform, this could replace it, but why do this when you can do the newsfeed???? |
| QuestionBox | 3 | $1.49 | Probably one of the better feedback apps |
| Employee Of The Month | 3 | $1.49 | Not much to say about this, not bad, not great |
| Commercial Real Estate Deal Tracker | 3 | Free | Microsoft example apps |
| Adlib PDF Publisher | 3 | Free | Simple PDF generator. Provides more support for other document types, not just Microsoft |
| Meal Delivery | 3 | Free | Microsoft example app |
| Order and Products | 3 | Free | Microsoft example apps |
| Calendar Alerts For SharePoint 2013 | 3 | $1.99 | Possibly some value here. You decide. Nothing that made me excited. |
| Infoware Plus Image Navigation+ | 3 | $9.99 | JAIC – this one you pay for pretty graphics |
| Web Analytics Integration | 3 | Free | Rather than modify your master page to add google analytics, you can add this app part to track page data |
| BannerMaker | 3 | $239.99 | There are lots of image carosels, not sure I would pay 239.99 for a designer tool when the output is the same |
| MySiteFinest | 3 | $139.99 | Looks like a cool app, but again to pricey |
| Print List | 3 | $1.99 | it provides a simple view of a list item that can be printed. I like the PDF output one better |
| Site Usage | 3 | Free | Same data you can get from other APIs. But simple for those that don’t know how to get that data. |
| Dell Social Hub | 3 | Free | It seemed like a cool app to start, but I couldn’t get it to do anything other than show Dell feeds! |
| Ultimate Slider | 3 | $30.99 | I like the Corporeate News App way better! And its free!!! Why pay so much for this app? Don’t… |
| List Carousel | 3 | Free | Another simple nes app |
| Bulk Edit | 3 | Free | The UI in Project Server isn't very intuitive, this is a slightly better UI |
| Firma Digitale Remota | 3 | Free | Another digital signature app. This space will be good, needs some work on the UI |
| vSlider Video Carousel | 3 | Free | A better spin on all the news carosels. |
| SharePoint 2013 Media Center App | 3 | Free | Only apps of its kind, allows you to connect ot Windows Azure Media Services to show remotely hosted videos |
| Resource planner | 3 | $699.99 | If you don't have project server and you want something more than the out of box gantt chart, this may be an option |
| Project Management | 3 | Free | Microsoft example apps |
| Pingar Metadata Extractor for SharePoint 2013 | 3 | Free | Bulk file uploader app, its ok |
| Contact Us Form | 3 | Free | Basic contact us app part |
| Recommendation Sharing | 3 | Free | Microsoft example apps |
| Site TreeView | 3 | $1.49 | A cheap alternative to the SharePoint Manager Tool. I'm sure they will force the other tools prices down. |
| SofTract Visual CSV Uploader | 3 | $1.49 | Allows you to upload data into a list using CSV files |
| TIM (Team Instant Messaging) | 3 | $1.99 | Another chat platform. Again, only works in cnotext of the web it is isntalled on…why replace newsfeeds? It is persistenct |
| Ideas and Votes Tracking | 3 | Free | Microsoft example apps |
| Publish All Enterprise Projects | 3 | Free | Interesting app |
| Google Drive Import Beta | 3 | Free | Imports content from your google drive to sharepoint library |
| From files to lists | 3 | $24.99 | There are others, you need trial there guys |
| Novadia Phonebook | 3 | Free | Phonebook search app |
| Collaboration Suite Quick Access | 3 | Free | If you don't have a breadcrumb control, which is the case in O365, then this might help you search for sites in the site collection |
| OneBit Quick Poll | 3 | Free | A polling app, I think their are better ways to do this |
| Export ListItem to Word | 3 | $599.99 | Your #$&^*%& crazy to think people will pay $599 for this. This is a weeks worth of dev work at most. |
| Student Contracts | 3 | Free | Microsoft example apps |
| Recruiting Helper | 3 | Free | Microsoft example apps |
| Public Site Content Migration | 3 | Free | Microsoft example apps |
| SideKick365 xRM PRO | 3 | $159.99 | This is a PRO version? SideKick is pulling the wool over people's eye with their apps. NOT cool |
| Feedback and Comments | 3 | $1.99 | A page rating app. |
| ContentCommander™ | 3 | $34.99 | Gives you some cool "fucntion" key features when editing documents and items. Always wondering why Microsoft didn't give us that |
| Tool Tracker | 3 | Free | Microsoft example apps |
| SP2 Power Search | 3 | $2.49 | Anthing that can help end users work with SP Search are good |
| FlashPlayer | 3 | $94.99 | These guys again… |
| Training Management | 3 | Free | Microsoft example apps |
| SharePoint Object Explorer | 3 | Free | Not as nice as the others |
| Idera SharePoint Library Analyzer | 3 | Free | I can see some potential here with the type of app it is, but it didn't do anything for me the way it is |
| Computer Asset Management System | 3 | Free | Microsoft example apps |
| Student Drop in Management | 3 | Free | Microsoft example apps |
| BlueBridge List2PDF | 3 | $9.99 | Was thinking this let you manage the columns and to edit a template, but alas, no. Simply exports the list columns to pdf. Not sure I'd pay 9.99 for this |
| UpdateCocktail | 3 | $189.99 | Competes against the content search web part? Oh…and you get to pay $189 for it |
| AE Twitter App Part | 3 | Free | another simple tweet feed app |
| Conservazione Sostitutiva | 3 | Free | Good implementation of some compliance law. There should be more apps like this |
| ObilogicSharePoint2013RSSApp | 3 | Free | Rss viewer |
| Fast Charts | 3 | Free | Another replacement for the Charts web parts, not as good as the other chart app part |
| MozArt | 3 | $1.49 | Free ones can accomplish the same goal |
| ThemeBuilder | 3 | $219.99 | Probably their best app. Looks ok, seems pricey like all their other apps |
| Rdz RSSReader | 3 | Free | An RSS reader app, simple. |
| SP2 CAML Query Tester | 3 | Free | It only does CAML, there are other tools that bring in all the APIs into a single App |
| Instant Legal Practice | 3 | Free | Evidentially I'm ready to be a lawyer |
| Rackspace Cloud Storage App for Microsoft SharePoint | 3 | Free | Looks to be made for a very specific clientel from Rackspace. Design looks good |
| Infoware Plus Weather+ | 3 | $9.99 | A weather app, that you pay for, again pretty graphics |
| Public Site Tools For SharePoint 2013 | 3 | $49.99 | An app to expose hidden O365 features. |
| Sports League Manager Starter (FREE Source Code) | 2 | Free | Point8020, Microsoft built example apps, you don't need to do it, quit cluttering the app store |
| Yammer Manager | 2 | Free | couldn't get it to do anything |
| Image Carousel | 2 | Free | Its a JAIC (Just another image carosel) |
| SideKick 365 MPM | 2 | $39.99 | A simple loan management tool, not worth paying for |
| SiteMonitor | 2 | $3.49 | |
| Mileage Tracker | 2 | Free | I'd think most large companies have an interal way of tracking this on expense reports, if your a single consultant , mmaybe you would use this |
| Recruitment Manager Starter Pack (Free Source Code) | 2 | Free | Point8020, Microsoft built example apps, you don't need to do it, quit cluttering the app store |
| ConnectToSkyDrive | 2 | $649.99 | Seriously, I'm not amused or impressed at this point |
| Action Tracker | 2 | Free | Seems they tried to improve on a basic task list with a custom UI? Don't see value here |
| List data in Bing Map | 2 | Free | Another map app |
| PeopleA-Z | 2 | $399.99 | Nooo…overpriced again… |
| CheckIn | 2 | $169.99 | Are you kidding me? Really? 4Square will give this to you for free…$169…LOL |
| SP2 Job Listings | 2 | $9.99 | Shows your internal job listings. Not worth $9.99 |
| Google powered Extranet search app | 2 | Free | Why use google search again? The google appliance can't compete against SP2013 search |
| SideKick 365 LPM | 2 | $14.99 | A simple lease management tool, not worth paying for |
| Test Center Starter Pack (FREE Source Code) | 2 | Free | Point8020, Microsoft built example apps, you don't need to do it, quit cluttering the app store |
| TalkFollowers | 2 | Free | Supposidly this will post to both shrepoint and yammer feeds |
| SimplePages | 2 | $449.99 | Really? $499 for something that you can do via the ribbon? Wolves…or better yet…muppets! |
| Seers Sticky Notes | 2 | Free | Onenote Site Notebook? Guess if you don’t have OWA this may be helpful |
| DocumentsTreeView | 2 | $249.99 | Your killin me smalls… |
| Analytics | 2 | $249.99 | Too pricy, there are other apps that are cheaper and better |
| PublishingPages | 2 | $649.99 | WTF…$699? Really? |
| YoutubeGallery | 2 | $9.99 | Yeah no…there are free ones guys |
| SideKick 365 DCM | 2 | $29.99 | A simple case management tool, not worth paying for |
| SimpleNews | 2 | $249.99 | Simplenews…yeah, simple to write this app…easy to overcharge |
| CountDown | 2 | $89.99 | Jesus…$89 for this? |
| Galleriffic App for SharePoint | 2 | Free | Another picture gallery app |
| Content Type Explorer | 2 | Free | Why do people need this again? And it errors out a lot |
| Course Designer Starter Pack (FREE Source Code) | 2 | Free | Point8020, Microsoft built example apps, you don't need to do it, quit cluttering the app store |
| Picture Gallery View | 2 | $9.99 | Not worth buying, too many free ones |
| myFAQ | 2 | Free | Don’t’ get the point of this app given you can do wikis that do the same thing. |
| Image Slideshow | 2 | $2.99 | Nothing to see here, don't waste your time |
| Bing Office Locator | 2 | Free | Just like all the other map apps |
| Instant Feed | 2 | $1.99 | The image looks like it’s a pretty simple app. It doesn’t have a trial version. I don’t get why someone would pay for this when you can do a simply script web part to do the same thing |
| Smartpoint's Kanban – Easier Task Management | 2 | Free | An attempt to replace out of box task views. Project server can do this |
| Rough Cut Editor Starter Pack (FREE Source Code) | 2 | Free | Point8020, Microsoft built example apps, you don't need to do it, quit cluttering the app store |
| Activities Tracker | 2 | Free | Ehhh… |
| ISlider | 2 | $19.99 | JAIC – does let a user pick the image |
| SlideShow | 2 | $199.99 | another slide show app |
| TeamSpirit Doc Finder | 2 | $9.99 | Not sure what the heck this does |
| KW Marquee | 2 | Free | A newsfeed ticker (this was so 1996…) |
| RSS Viewer | 2 | $2.49 | Another RSS viewer |
| Map App | 2 | Free | another map app (could you tell from teh title?), at least this one provides direction features |
| Booking of Resources | 2 | $899.99 | Not a very compelling app, I can see potential though, but was the first that I saw to have links to app list and site settings pages |
| QuickPoll | 2 | $199.99 | Very quick to create a poll, no real features |
| Accordion Display | 2 | $2.99 | Not worth the price. Especially when there is a free one. |
| Shreyan Sticky Notes | 2 | Free | Looks to be the same as the other sticky notes. Why two in the app store? |
| _api JSON Viewer | 2 | Free | simple rest json viewer for your URLsAPIs. Nothing that you couldn't do with other tools. |
| Google Maps for SharePoint | 2 | Free | There are free ones |
| Timer Clock | 2 | Free | Hmm…not sure what the point was… |
| Meet The Team | 2 | $3.49 | Uses the same code as the Employee of the month |
| bill tracker | 2 | Free | Really? Manage your bills in sharePoint? I'm thinking…no |
| Sticky Notes | 2 | Free | pretty pictures…yeah |
| Tic Tac Toe Starter Pack (FREE source code) | 2 | Free | Point8020, Microsoft built example apps, you don't need to do it, quit cluttering the app store |
| Collage App | 2 | Free | No value app |
| Daily Dilbert Strip | 2 | Free | Fun. Not sure if they have the right to Dilbert, but hey, its funny no matter. It didn’t work though when I installed it. The image is broken link |
| Sports News On SharePoint | 2 | Free | No real world value here unless you work for a pro sports team |
| Content Type Manager | 2 | Free | You don't need this app |
| Locations Mapper | 2 | Free | Uses Google maps and looks good, but not a lot of functionality here |
| Lightning Chat | 2 | $1.99 | Doesn’t keep persistence after leaving the page, why replace LyncSkypeAOLetc |
| Invoicing Manager Starter Pack (FREE source code) | 2 | Free | Point8020, Microsoft built example apps, you don't need to do it, quit cluttering the app store |
| Pipeline Manager Starter Pack (FREE source code) | 2 | Free | Point8020, Microsoft built example apps, you don't need to do it, quit cluttering the app store |
| Home and Back Buttons | 2 | $2.99 | Because sharepoint navigation really doesn't work at all? Ouch… $2.99 for two button…lovely |
| SharePoint Security | 2 | $1.49 | Funny, just shows a user and what they have access too. I wouldn't pay for this |
| Url Shortener Lite | 1 | Free | Couldn't get it to work |
| Location Finder | 1 | Free | Could fingure out how to display the map |
| My Locations | 1 | Free | Very simple app, not much value here |
| SharePoint Amplifier | 1 | $9.99 | Requires a blog site in O365. Tried to work with it, but it no worky |
| Staff Directory | 1 | $7.99 | The staff directory is really the local web's user information list data, not your entire staff. Do not pay for this |
| Quick Info | 1 | $1.49 | Not worth downlaoding |
| Locations Map Plus For SharePoint 2013 | 1 | $9.99 | No real difference from the others. This guy is smoking crack for charging $9.99…dumb |
| SP2 Feedback | 1 | $24.99 | Simple feedback app…why $24.99? There are free ones |
| Corporate News | 1 | $399.99 | Don’t buy this…waste of money when there are free ones. |
| 2A QuickStart | 1 | Free | A new window? Really? that is not sharepoint integration! |
| Stock Chart | 1 | $1.49 | doesn't work |
| CertiViz | 1 | Free | Doesn't work |
| Spallery | 1 | $1.49 | Might be worst of all gallery apps |
| My Rubrica | 1 | Free | A contact manager app…Outlook? iPhone? Not sure why you would use this app |
| RateMe Pro | 1 | $19.99 | Have no idea what this does… |
| Brava Viewer | Free | ||
| BPA CRM 2013 Preview | Free | ||
| UMT Essentials Lite | $4.99 | ||
| Posta Elettronica Certificata | Free | ||
| iGlobe Group Calendar | $89.99 | ||
| PROJILITY ProjectWare LiveWindow | $49.99 | ||
| TPG Risk Chart | $19.99 | ||
| MeetSweet! | Free | ||
| Feedback Form | $1.99 | ||
| AvePoint Meetings for SharePoint Online | Free | ||
| SOLVIN TrackTimesheet Go | Free | ||
| iGlobe Integrator | $14.99 | ||
| TimeOFF Pro | $19.99 | ||
| Newsfeed Notifier | $1.99 | ||
| CS Milestone Trend Analysis | Free | ||
| OneBit Survey Master | Free | ||
| TPG MTA Chart | $29.99 | ||
| ImageGallery | $9.99 | ||
| RateMe Lite | $4.99 | ||
| General Knowledge Quiz For SharePoint 2013 | $1.99 | ||
| MetaVis Information Manager for Office 365 | Free | ||
| ConnectYard for Sharepoint | Free | ||
| TPG WBS Chart | $19.99 |
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