# Publishing Apps

Publishing your app marks the culminating step in your app design process, **enabling the users of your designed app to access the most recent updates**.

To publish your app, just click the "Publish" button, and it will become visible in production for your end users.

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## More publishing options

More operation are available to have more control on publishing, by clicking on the arrow next to "Publish":

* **Refresh Data**: by clicking on this you will launch the processes that will refresh all the data stored in Toucan (more in [refreshing-and-publishing-datasets](https://docs-v3.toucantoco.com/data-management-in-datahub/datasets-in-toucan/managing-datasets/stored-datasets/refreshing-and-publishing-datasets "mention") and [stored-and-live-datasets](https://docs-v3.toucantoco.com/data-management-in-datahub/datasets-in-toucan/stored-and-live-datasets "mention"))
* **Publish Design**: will only update the changes in visualizations and layouts but not the changes in data
* **Publish Data**: will only update the changes in data but not the changes in visualizations and layouts
* **Publish Data**: will only update the changes in permissions but not the data or the visualizations and layouts
* **Notify users while publishing**: all you app users will receive a mail to be aware that a new publish has been performed

<figure><img src="https://1809014303-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FZxYYf1KpgarKMgMsDCrw%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-18c52384a66a69e5b0b7d146b0fde5f73acad96e%2Fimage.png?alt=media" alt=""><figcaption><p>Operations options</p></figcaption></figure>

## Publishing on mobile

Everything you do in Toucan is mobile ready. It’s a no brainer, **so there is actually no specific publish required**. Our viz and design are made to be correctly displayed on mobile.

Go to your mobile phone or tablet, and open your web browser.

Go to your toucan app using its url in your browser, from there, select **Add to home screen**

**For iOS**

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**For android**

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