# Showcaser

> Show the things you have, at your own address, kept on your own iPhone, iPad and Mac. A calm site that gets people to call, visit or ask.

## Facts

- Showcaser makes a website of the things you have — a collection, an artist's work, a dealer's stock, an estate — at name.showcaser.app or your own domain, from an app on your iPhone, iPad or Mac.
- A showcase is a folder of files owned by a key in your iCloud Keychain. There is no account, no password and no database.
- Visitors browse and search in their own browser and reach you by phone, text, email or a map. Nothing about visitors is stored.
- There is no checkout. When something is for sale, the sale happens between people.
- Photos are resized and their location removed on your device before they are published, and nothing is ever generated or enhanced.
- Fields only you can read are sealed with the showcase's own key, so even the host can't read them.

## Pages

- [Showcaser — show what you have](https://showcaser.app/index.md): A calm website for your collection, your work or your stock, made on your own iPhone, iPad or Mac and published at your own address. No accounts, no checkout, no web admin.
- [Features — Showcaser](https://showcaser.app/features.md): What Showcaser does today, in a few groups, one line each, each linked to the manual.
- [How it works — Showcaser](https://showcaser.app/how-it-works.md): A showcase is a folder of files owned by a key in your iCloud Keychain. One server turns it into a fast website at your name or your own domain.
- [Principles — Showcaser](https://showcaser.app/principles.md): The rules Showcaser is built by: no checkout, nobody owns your showcase but you, nothing stored about visitors, honest pictures.
- [Manual — Showcaser](https://showcaser.app/docs.md): The Showcaser manual: every section of the guide that ships inside the app, readable here as HTML or raw Markdown.
- [Releases — Showcaser](https://showcaser.app/releases.md): Every Showcaser release that reached people, newest first, with dates and build numbers for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
- [Support — Showcaser](https://showcaser.app/support.md): Get help with Showcaser: ask a question, report a problem or suggest an idea, and find the manual's help sections.
- [Privacy Policy — Showcaser](https://showcaser.app/privacy.md): What Showcaser holds, what it doesn't do, what a visitor to a showcase leaves behind (almost nothing), and how to use your rights. A showcase is a folder of files owned by a key on your devices; there is no account.
- [Subprocessors — Showcaser](https://showcaser.app/privacy/subprocessors.md): The companies that process personal information for Showcaser, what each does, and where.
- [Terms of Service — Showcaser](https://showcaser.app/terms.md): The terms for making a showcase with Showcaser and for using the sites it serves: what Showcaser is, what belongs to you, what you answer for as a seller, what we can't vouch for, and the limits of our responsibility.
- [Acceptable Use Policy — Showcaser](https://showcaser.app/terms/acceptable-use.md): What may never be listed on a showcase, what may be listed only where the law allows, what may not be done to Showcaser, and what we do about misuse.
- [Open Source Notices — Showcaser](https://showcaser.app/legal/notices.md): The open source fonts and software in Showcaser's app, its showcases and this website, and their licenses.
- [Publisher Terms — Showcaser](https://showcaser.app/terms/publishers.md): Terms for anyone who publishes a showcase: you are the seller, what you promise about your listings and pictures, the law you take on for vehicles, real estate and other regulated sales, and how listings are taken down.

## Manual

The app's built-in manual as of the last ship, one raw Markdown file per section (frontmatter included). The same manual ships inside the app.

### Getting started

- [What Showcaser is](https://showcaser.app/docs/what-showcaser-is.md): The one-page orientation: a calm website for things you sell in person, run from your own iPhone, iPad or Mac
- [Your first showcase](https://showcaser.app/docs/your-first-showcase.md): Putting a showcase on a new device with its recovery key, or creating a new one, and what it starts with
- [Your key and iCloud Keychain](https://showcaser.app/docs/the-key.md): How a showcase is owned with no account, where its key lives, and how to back it up and restore it
- [Several showcases](https://showcaser.app/docs/several-showcases.md): Switching between showcases, managing the list on a device, and taking one off a device
- [Finding your way on iPhone and iPad](https://showcaser.app/docs/the-home-screen.md): The list of places on the iPhone, the sidebar and cards on the iPad, going back, Side by Side, and where Settings is
- [Searching the app](https://showcaser.app/docs/searching.md): The magnifying glass beside the showcase's name (⌘F) finds listings, pages, settings and this manual

### Listings

- [Adding a listing](https://showcaser.app/docs/adding-a-listing.md): Starting a new listing, what its form holds from top to bottom, and how its name and web address are made
- [Photos and video](https://showcaser.app/docs/photos-and-video.md): Adding, ordering and removing a listing's photos and video, and what the app does to them before they go up
- [Statuses and the status note](https://showcaser.app/docs/statuses.md): What a listing's status does on the site and in the app, the quick ways to change it, and the private note beside it
- [Details, summary and description](https://showcaser.app/docs/details-summary-description.md): Filling in a listing's fields by type, adding a new choice from a listing's form, and formatting the description
- [Only in this app](https://showcaser.app/docs/only-in-this-app.md): Private fields and the status note, sealed with your showcase's key so the site never shows them and the host can't read them
- [Publishing, hiding and deleting](https://showcaser.app/docs/publishing-hiding-deleting.md): What Publish sends, seeing a listing on the web, taking one off the site for now, and deleting it for good
- [When two devices edit at once](https://showcaser.app/docs/two-devices.md): How the app keeps your iPhone, iPad and Mac from saving over each other, and what each question means
- [Dimensions and View on your wall](https://showcaser.app/docs/dimensions.md): Giving a piece a real width and height, how the site uses it, and how visitors see it at its real size in their own room

### Your site

- [Site details and contact](https://showcaser.app/docs/site-details.md): Your site's name and subtitle, the phone at the top, the contact details visitors use, the About text and the footer
- [Pages and tabs](https://showcaser.app/docs/pages.md): Adding the pages that become your site's tabs, writing them, putting photos on them, and ordering or deleting them
- [Header photo](https://showcaser.app/docs/header-photo.md): A photo across the top of your site's pages, under your name and tabs, and when a page shows a different one
- [Cards and Gallery layouts](https://showcaser.app/docs/layouts.md): Choosing how your site arranges its listings, each layout's options, and the name of the first tab
- [The Gallery's wall](https://showcaser.app/docs/the-gallery-wall.md): How the Gallery layout hangs every piece at its real size on a gallery wall, and what visitors can do there
- [Fonts](https://showcaser.app/docs/fonts.md): Choosing a face for your site's name and tabs and another for its text, from a short list served by your own site
- [Themes](https://showcaser.app/docs/themes.md): Choosing your site's colors from the ready-made themes in Site, Layout, and how the app wears them too
- [Making your own theme](https://showcaser.app/docs/making-a-theme.md): Making a theme from a few colors in Settings, Themes, importing one as JSON, and putting it on your site
- [Your address](https://showcaser.app/docs/your-address.md): Where your site lives on showcaser.app, how a new showcase gets its address, and changing it
- [Your own domain](https://showcaser.app/docs/own-domain.md): Putting your site at a domain you already own, the one or two records to change where your domain is managed, and disconnecting
- [What visitors see](https://showcaser.app/docs/what-visitors-see.md): Your site's home page, a listing's page, the Contact page and the light and dark switch, as a visitor meets them
- [Search, sorting and categories on the site](https://showcaser.app/docs/search-on-the-site.md): How visitors search your listings, the sorts they can use, and the category buttons above the list

### Listing schema

- [The listing schema](https://showcaser.app/docs/listing-schema.md): What a listing schema is, the four built-in ones, how the first change makes one your own, and switching between them
- [Fields and their types](https://showcaser.app/docs/fields-and-types.md): Adding, renaming, reordering and retyping your schema's fields, and which types a field can be
- [Headline, search and When empty](https://showcaser.app/docs/headline-search-empty.md): Choosing which fields make a listing's name, which ones the site searches and sorts by, and what an empty field says
- [Statuses in the schema](https://showcaser.app/docs/schema-statuses.md): Adding and editing statuses, the home tab each falls under, and whether the site shows and marks it
- [Removing fields and statuses](https://showcaser.app/docs/removing-fields-and-statuses.md): Taking a field out of your schema with or without its values, hiding one, and removing a status by moving its listings first

### On the Mac

- [The Mac window](https://showcaser.app/docs/mac-window.md): The sidebar and the cards: your site's pages (the listings among them), the Site card and the foot, each a card
- [Cards side by side and in windows](https://showcaser.app/docs/cards-and-windows.md): Putting two cards next to each other, closing a card, moving one to a window of its own, and keeping an arrangement
- [Drag and drop](https://showcaser.app/docs/drag-and-drop.md): Bringing photos and video in from the Finder or Photos, starting a listing by dropping photos, and reordering by dragging
- [Keyboard shortcuts](https://showcaser.app/docs/keyboard-shortcuts.md): The keys the Mac app answers to, and where to find them in the menus

### Privacy and safety

- [What is stored, and what never is](https://showcaser.app/docs/what-is-stored.md): What your showcase's host keeps, what it can't read, what it never learns about you or your visitors, and who can change your site
- [Photos and honest pictures](https://showcaser.app/docs/honest-pictures.md): What happens to every photo and video before it leaves your device, and what Showcaser will never do to a picture

### Help

- [Troubleshooting](https://showcaser.app/docs/troubleshooting.md): What the app's messages mean and what to do, from a missing showcase to a video that's too long
- [Release notes and What's new](https://showcaser.app/docs/release-notes.md): Where to read what changed in each update, and the build you are on
- [Report an Issue](https://showcaser.app/docs/report-an-issue.md): Tell the people who make Showcaser about a problem or an idea, from the app or the website

## Contact

- https://showcaser.app/support