---
title: "Create an app"
description: "Creates an app in a suite, reachable at that suite's address followed by the app's slug."
canonical: "https://gtable.app/docs/builder-api/apps/create"
updated: "2026-10-05"
---

# Create an app

`POST https://studio.gtable.app/v1/apps`

Creates an app in a suite, reachable at that suite's address followed by the app's slug.

The builder is not automatically a member; no group has special platform privileges.

Requires the `schema:write` scope. Operation `apps.create`. MCP tool `apps_create`. CLI, once published: `gtable apps create`.

## Headers

| Name              | Type   | Required | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| ----------------- | ------ | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `Idempotency-Key` | string | no       | Any unique string. Sending the same key with the same request again returns the first response (marked `Idempotency-Replayed: true`) instead of running it twice. Reusing it for a different request is refused with 409. Kept for 24 hours. Up to 255 characters. |

## Request body

| Field     | Type      | Required | Description           |
| --------- | --------- | -------- | --------------------- |
| `suiteId` | string    | yes      | Up to 64 characters.  |
| `name`    | string    | yes      | Up to 120 characters. |
| `slug`    | string    | no       |                       |
| `tables`  | object\[] | no       |                       |