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Sharing your Bitsbox apps with other people

You can share your Bitsbox apps in lots of different ways:

Share your apps on social media! 


Show off the apps you build on Bitsbox! Here are the 4 easy steps to share:
1. Open the app you'd like to share.
2. Click the Share icon in the upper right corner of the screen. It looks like this: 
3. Copy your app's unique runpage url.
4. Paste the url on your favorite social media! Use #BuiltOnBitsbox and tag @bitsboxkids so we can see what you've made! 

Save your apps to gadgets like smartphones and tablets.


If you have access to a mobile device, you can use it to run your Bitsbox apps. Any modern mobile device will work, as long as it has a web browser (like Safari, Chrome, and others) that can open web pages. Android phones and tablets, iPhones, iPads, Kindle Fire tablets, and Microsoft gadgets all work great.
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Play two-player apps with other people.


Some Bitsbox apps are meant to be played by two or more people using different devices at the same time. For example: You on your computer and your friend on her tablet; you on your phone and your dad on his phone; or a whole classroom of kids on their Chromebooks.
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Email your apps to friends and family.


If you and the other person are both using computers (instead of phones or tablets), or you're not in the same room, send them an email that includes your app's unique email address. You can also include a custom message.
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Text a link to your app.


You can also send a text message to friends and family with a link to your app! When you text a link to an app, you can't add a custom message—we keep the text short and sweet!

Copy and paste an app's web address manually.


If you'd prefer to send your app's unique web address directly with some other form of electronic communication, you can.
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Copy and paste your app's title, code, and screenshot into a document.


If you'd like to paste everything about your app into a Google Document, Word Document, or other program, you can follow these steps:

1. Open the app you'd like to copy.
2. Click the Share icon in the upper right corner of the screen. It looks like this:
3. Click the link that says "Copy all to clipboard"
4. Open a document in Word or Google Docs, and select Edit > Paste. Your app's title, screenshot, and formatted code will appear!



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