Basics

Managing Your Projects

Your projects live in the My Projects tab. Select one in the list and its details appear in a panel on the right, where you can find every action for managing the app and view its metadata.

Edit Icon

Glaze generates an icon for every app, and you can change it any time from the detail panel or Agent Chat.

Open the icon editor: Click the pencil button on the app's icon in the detail panel or the app icon in Agent Chat to open Edit App Icon.
Upload or generate: Click Upload Icon to use an image from your computer, or describe the icon you want and click Generate for a set of options. To guide a generated icon, drop an image onto the composer or attach a reference image.
Pick and save: Select the icon option you like and click Save, and your new icon then appears everywhere the app shows up.

Generating an icon is free and never uses your credits, so regenerate as often as you like until you find the perfect icon for your app.

Rename a Project

In the detail panel, the project's name sits below its icon and is editable in place. Click the name, type a new one, and it saves automatically when you click away. You can also click the app name at the top of Agent Chat to rename it.

A project's description is set by the agent as it builds, and you can refine it when publishing. See Publish Apps.

Archiving and Restoring

Archiving is the tidy way to set a project aside without losing anything. From the detail panel, open the More… menu and click Archive Project.

Archiving removes the app from your main projects list and from your Applications, but your project files stay on disk, so you can bring it back at any time. Archived projects gather in an Archived Apps section at the bottom of the list. To restore one, select it there and choose Recover. It returns to your active projects exactly as it was.

Deleting a Project

Deleting is permanent. From the More… menu, click Delete Project, then confirm in the dialog. Deleting removes the project and cannot be undone, so reach for Archive instead if there's any chance you'll want it back.

If you've published the app, deleting your local project does not remove it from the Store. The published version stays available there. To take it down, unpublish it first.

Exporting and Importing an App

You can move a project between Macs, or hand it to someone directly, by exporting it to a file.

Export: Open the More… menu and click Export Project…. Glaze saves the project as a single .glaze file you can store or send.
Import: In the menu bar, choose File -> Import Project… and pick a .glaze file. The project is added to My Projects, ready to open and edit.

Exporting is a direct, file-based way to share a project. For publishing to the Store or sharing privately with your team, see Publish Apps.

Revealing Files in Finder

Every project is a real folder on your Mac. To open it in Finder, click Reveal in Finder from the More… menu, or click the project's Directory path in the detail panel. Opening the folder lets you back up a project, inspect its files, or work with them in another tool.