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description: With apps in Lightning Experience, members of your org can work more efficiently by easily switching between apps. Users can open apps you’ve created from the App Launcher. What’s most important to sales reps? Accounts, events, and organizations. How about sales managers? Reports and dashboards make the top of the list. Lightning apps take things to another level past Classic apps by letting you brand your apps with a custom color, logo, and utility bar.
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# Lightning Apps

With apps in Lightning Experience, members of your org can work more efficiently by easily switching between apps. Users can open apps you’ve created from the App Launcher. What’s most important to sales reps? Accounts, events, and organizations. How about sales managers? Reports and dashboards make the top of the list. Lightning apps take things to another level past Classic apps by letting you brand your apps with a custom color, logo, and utility bar.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Contact Manager</strong>, <strong>Group</strong>, <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions</td></tr></tbody></table>

Lightning apps contain everything you expect from a custom app, such as custom and standard objects, and custom tabs. But Lightning apps can also include Lightning page tabs and utilities like Lightning Voice. The navigation model of Lightning apps is optimized for efficiency, with actions on certain items like Opportunities in the navigation bar. You can even append navigation items to a Lightning app that you found on AppExchange and installed from a managed package.

Custom apps from Salesforce Classic automatically work in Lightning Experience and can be upgraded to Lightning apps. Classic apps appear in the list of apps in Setup alongside your Lightning apps, and are available from the App Launcher as long as their **Show in Lightning Experience** attribute is enabled.

However, the reverse isn’t true for Lightning apps. Lightning apps aren’t available in Salesforce Classic.

You can assign multiple user profiles to multiple apps. Also, you can assign as many user profiles to one app as you need to. For instance, you have several groups involved with inside sales. Assign all the groups to your inside sales app, and they all have access to it.

To switch between apps, users can use the App Launcher. This makes it easy for users to switch contexts and still have access to the items, objects, and pages they need most.

You can view all the apps in your org from the App Manager. In Lightning Experience Setup, enter App in the Quick Find box, then select **App Manager**.

#### See Also

- [Create Lightning Apps](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.apps_lightning_create.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "As in Salesforce Classic, you can create apps in Lightning Experience, but with even more bells and whistles. You can brand and customize Lightning apps to help your users work more efficiently. For example, you can create a Lightning app for your finance department that includes all important items, including tabs, for users to complete common tasks. You can customize the navigation bar color, brand it with a logo, and make the app available in the App Launcher for the user profiles associated with the finance department.")
- [Upgrade Classic Apps to Lightning Apps](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.apps_lightning_upgrade_from_classic.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "You can upgrade a Classic app to a Lightning app in Lightning Experience, enhancing it for your Lightning Experience users with a customized color, logo, utility bar, and more items like Lightning pages supported in the navigation bar.")
- [Salesforce App Considerations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.apps_considerations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Keep these considerations in mind when working with apps in either Lightning Experience or Salesforce Classic.")