App Navigation controls how your audience moves around your app: the buttons along the bottom of the screen, and the content navigation menu. It's where you decide what your audience can reach and how they get there.
Where to find it
In your dashboard, go to Design → App → App Navigation. You'll see two tabs: Bottom bar and Content navigation.
Important: App Navigation goes live immediately
Unlike app screens (which you keep in Draft until you publish), App Navigation has no draft stage. As soon as you save a change, it updates in your live app straight away. There's no separate publish step, so only save once you're happy with your setup.
The golden rule: keep everything reachable
However you arrange things, make sure your audience can still get to every part of your app and all of your content. If you remove one of the default buttons, that route may be lost. For example, if you remove Search from the bottom bar, there's no other place to add search back. Keep this in mind before removing or replacing the defaults.
The bottom bar
The bottom bar is the row of buttons fixed along the bottom of your app. By default it has three: Home, Store (your subscribe / purchase destination), and Search. You can reorder these, add your own buttons, and remove ones you don't need (keeping the golden rule above in mind).
Make the most of your bottom bar
Your bottom bar is one of the most important parts of your app: it's the one menu your audience sees on every single screen, so it's worth giving real thought. You can have up to five buttons, and the panel shows how many of your five slots are in use (for example, 3/5). We'd encourage you to use that space generously: think about the key places your audience will want to jump to and give each one a home here. Aim for the things people will reach for again and again, like all your content, search, their account, or your latest drop. The sweet spot most great apps land on is four or five clear destinations: enough to make everything easy to reach, without crowding the bar or squeezing your labels.
Example bottom bar setups
Here are a few ways creators commonly arrange the bottom bar, depending on what their channel is about:
A podcaster: Home, Episodes (all your audio in one tap), Search, and Subscribe.
A video or course creator: Home, Browse (your full library), Search, and Account.
A community-focused channel: Home, Content, Community and Search
A musician: Home, Music, Store, and Search.
You'll notice the apps your audience already uses every day follow the same pattern: Spotify keeps to Home, Search, and Your Library; Netflix uses Home, New & Hot, and My Netflix. A handful of clear destinations, no clutter, is the goal.
And remember the bottom bar can hold something temporary and attention-grabbing too. Around a launch you might add a "New Drop" or "Live Event" button for a couple of weeks, then take it back out once it's done.
Adding a custom button
Click Add custom tab. you'll see some fields appear to fill in
Title: the text label shown under the icon.
Icon: choose an icon to represent the button. Always use both an icon and a text label together. It can be tempting to go icon-only for a cleaner look, but both Apple and Google recommend pairing every icon with a short, plain label: icons on their own are easy to misread, and a clear word like "Home," "Browse," or "Search" removes the guesswork. Keep labels short so they don't get truncated on smaller screens.
Destination: choose where the button takes your audience.
Options include:
Product: a specific product (the default Store button leads the user to the full access flow/full list of subscription plans)
Content: a single piece of content.
List: one of your lists.
Sections: all of your sections for a content type (audio, video, or articles).
Section: A specific section (category) from a specific content type
Screen: another app screen you've built in the Screen Builder (not only your home screen).
If you change your mind, click Close. You'll be asked whether to save or discard your changes; choose Discard to leave the bottom bar as it was.
A note on Subscribe / Store: as well as the bottom bar, you can guide your audience toward specific products or subscription plans from within your app home screen (using blocks in the Screen Builder), so you have more than one way to point people to what they can buy.
Content navigation
The Content navigation tab configures what your Navigation block shows. This is the navigation that has always appeared on the standard app home screen.
By default it shows Audio, Video, and Articles (plus a More tab, if you've added external links). You can reorder these, and you can add more destinations of your own.
Adding a content destination
Click Add content destination.
Title: the label for this destination.
Icon: choose an icon.
Destination: choose where it points. Options include Section, Screen, List, Content, and Product. If you choose List or Content, you'll also choose the content type first (audio, video, or articles), then pick the specific list or item.
Finding your list or content: when you pick a Section as the destination, you'll get a dropdown of the available options to choose from. When you pick a List or a Content item, the field works as a search: it won't show a full dropdown, so start typing the name and matching options will appear. It helps to know the titles of the lists and content you want to link to.