App

App, APP, or apps may refer to:

Computing

• Abbreviated word "app"
  • Application software that causes a computer to perform tasks for computer users
  • Mobile app, software designed to run on smartphones and other mobile devices
  • Web application or web app, software designed to run inside a web browser

• Acronym "APP"
  • Adjusted Peak Performance, a metric to measure computing performance in 64-bit processors and above
  • Application Portability Profile, NIST standards and specifications for the Open System Environment
  • Atom Publishing Protocol, simple HTTP-based protocol for creating and updating web resources

People

• App (surname)
• Apps (surname)

Arts, entertainment, and media

• APP (film), a 2013 Dutch film that utilizes second screen technology
• Alan Parsons Project, a British progressive rock group
• Asbury Park Press, a newspaper of Monmouth County, New Jersey

Education

• Advanced Placement Program, a program offering college-level curriculum and examinations to high school students
• Appalachian State University, a university in Boone, North Carolina, United States
  • Appalachian State Mountaineers, the university's athletic program
• Assessing Pupils' Progress, an assessment methodology used in schools in England and Wales

Medicine

• Acute-phase protein, a class of proteins whose concentration changes in response to inflammation
• Advanced Practice Provider, or mid-level practitioner, a class of healthcare providers with more training and responsibility than registered nurses, but less than physicians
• Amyloid precursor protein, a protein whose fragments are associated with Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders

Organizations and enterprises

Political parties

• All People's Party (disambiguation)
• Alliance populaire progressiste or People's Progressive Alliance, a political party in Mauritania
• Animal Protection Party, a British political party
• Australian Protectionist Party, an Australian political party
• Austrian People's Party, an Austrian political party
• Reason Party (Poland) or Anticlerical Progress Party REASON, a Polish political party

Other organizations and enterprises

For schools, see § Education.

• African Prisons Project, a UK-based NGO
• Alberta Provincial Police, a Canadian police force from 1917–1932
• American Principles Project, a libertarian and conservative political think tank
• Asia-Pacific Partnership, an international environmental protection alliance
• Asia Pulp & Paper, a pulp and paper company based in Jakarta, Indonesia
• Associated Press of Pakistan, a national news agency of Pakistan
• Association of Professional Piercers, an international organization for body piercing

Railway codes

• Appleby railway station (Cumbria), England; National Rail code APP
• Appleton, Wisconsin; Amtrak station code APP

Other uses

• Atactic polypropylene, a hot-melt adhesive

See also

• All pages beginning with "App"
• All pages beginning with "APP"
• All pages with a title containing app
• All pages beginning with "Apps"
• All pages with a title containing apps