# Apps

## Introduction to the apps

**Apps** are the heart of a Toucan platform that are stored in the **App Store.**

They have the goal to split your data and visualisations between projects, teams or business units in order to guide your collaborators to pick the right **App** for the right insights without being submerged unrelated KPIs.

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## Layouts in Toucan

Layouts are "pre-built" ways to arrange and distribute insights.

They include our core storytelling layouts which have been designed as a book:

1. **The Home**
2. **The Stories**, grouped in **Chapters and Subchapters**

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th align="center"></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-cover data-type="files"></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td></td><td align="center">The Home</td><td></td><td></td><td><a href="https://github.com/ToucanToco/doc-v3/blob/main/visualizations-and-layouts/apps/broken-reference/README.md">https://github.com/ToucanToco/doc-v3/blob/main/visualizations-and-layouts/apps/broken-reference/README.md</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td align="center">Stories</td><td></td><td></td><td><a href="apps/stories">stories</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

To go further in the way you're communicating your data, you can access other pre-build **Layouts** that can help you in different context such as:

* PDF Report
* Datawall
* Dashboard Builder
* My Favorites

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th align="center"></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td></td><td align="center"><a href="https://emojipedia.org/chart-increasing/">📈</a> PDF Report</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td align="center"><a href="https://emojipedia.org/ferris-wheel/">🎡</a> Datawall</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td align="center"><a href="https://emojipedia.org/building-construction/">🏗️</a> Dashboard Builder</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td align="center">⭐️MyFavorites</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

Here's a quick look at a home page, and our ability to set up bookmarks (MyFavorites), PDF Reports and Datawall to communicate data to your users.

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Broadcast your data to the world!
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