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Use the app categories and category pages

Learn the seven workspace categories, what lives in each, and how category overview pages help you browse a group of related apps and jump back to recent ones.

Why categories matter

Every app in the workspace is filed under exactly one category. Categories are the organizing principle behind the whole product: they group related tools so that once you know which category a job belongs to, you always know where to look. The same categories appear in the left rail, on the Dashboard, and on the My Apps page.

The seven categories

Operations — the day-to-day engine of client work: CRM (contacts and deals), Books (invoices and expenses), Tasks (to-dos and boards), Schedule (bookings and availability), Calendar (events and free/busy), Meet (video rooms), Projects (plans and milestones), Wire (wireframes and specs), and Automate (workflow triggers).

Content & Creative — where you make things: Docs (documents and notes), Sheets (spreadsheets), Pages (landing pages and microsites), Design (brand kits and visual assets), Forms (intake and surveys), and Drive (files, folders, and sharing).

Commerce & Growth — selling and marketing: Shop (storefronts and orders), Social (post planning and approvals), Analytics (metrics and reports), SEM (keywords, rankings, audits), and Brand monitoring / BAS (reputation and alerts).

Comms & Legal — talking to and contracting with people: Mail (email campaigns and broadcasts), Contracts (agreements and signing), and Support (tickets and knowledge base).

Platform & AI — technical and learning tools: Code (courses and labs), Dev (repos, scans, quality gates), GPT (AI chat and assistants), Search (indexing and retrieval), Learn (courses and learning paths), and Vault (passwords and secrets).

Brand & Domains — your web identity: White Label (portal branding), Domains (custom URLs and DNS), and StretchWP (managed WordPress).

Account — the business side of your workspace: Services (requests and delivery), Billing (plans and invoices), and Account (your profile and security).

Category overview pages

Selecting a category name in the left rail also opens that category's overview page. Each overview page has:

  1. A Recently used row (when relevant) — the apps in this category you opened most recently, so you can jump straight back.
  2. An Apps panel — every app in the category as a card, showing the app name, a short description, and, where applicable, the point tool it replaces (for example, "vs HubSpot" on CRM).

Select any card to open the app.

How to use them

  1. In the left rail, select a category name (for example Content & Creative).
  2. The overview page opens with the category's apps laid out as cards.
  3. If you've used apps in this category before, check the Recently used row at the top first.
  4. Select the card for the app you want.

Category pages are ideal when you know the kind of thing you need ("something creative") but not the exact app.

A quick example

You run Payne Coaching and want to publish a new landing page but can't remember whether that's Pages or Design. You select Content & Creative in the rail. The overview page shows both StretchPages ("vs Webflow") and StretchDesign ("vs Canva") side by side with descriptions. You recognize Pages as the one for landing pages, select its card, and start building. Tomorrow, that same overview page shows Pages in its Recently used row for one-click return.

Tips

  • Use the "vs" labels to orient. If you're migrating from a familiar tool, the comparison tags ("vs Shopify", "vs Calendly") tell you instantly which StretchSuite app matches.
  • Category pages are great for onboarding a team. Point new members at a category to show them everything available in that area at once.
  • Recently used is per category. The row on a category page shows only that category's recent apps, which keeps it focused.

Troubleshooting

"The Recently used row isn't showing on a category page." It only appears once you've opened at least one app in that category. Open an app and it'll populate.

"An app appears in a category I didn't expect." Apps are filed where they fit best operationally. For example, Drive sits under Content & Creative because it's where creative assets live, and Support sits under Comms & Legal. Use the category lists above as your reference.

"A category page won't load." Refresh the page. If it still fails, confirm you're signed in and in a valid workspace via the top-bar breadcrumb.

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