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Deploy the Glean Apps

About the Glean Apps

By default, a user must access Glean by explicitly typing https://app.glean.com into their browser, or by clicking the Glean tile in your company’s SSO App Library. Both of these options have significant friction to them, and on their own, lead to poor adoption of Glean.

The best way to drive Glean adoption at your company is by deploying the Glean browser extension and Glean apps to their corporate devices.

Browser Extensions

The Glean Browser Extension provides a better user experience and creates habits for higher adoption and usage, allowing everyone to get the most out of Glean.

Key features that the extension provides include:

  • New tab page

    Glean replaces the browser’s New Tage page for quick access to search, suggested items, and calendar; meaning that employees no longer need to explicitly access app.glean.com

  • Sidebar

    Glean search or Assistant can be accessed from a sidebar on any page. This allows for a quick search and content generation without breaking flow.

  • Native Search Replacement

    Glean can replace the native search box for Google Drive, Jira, Confluence, Box, and more; providing a better search experience and more relevant results.

  • Go Links

    Go Links are short, memorable links that redirect to important URLs within your company.

    For example, you could create go/it-help for your IT help desk, or go/sprint-planning for your Jira project.

  • Browser History Search Results

    Get search results from additional platforms even if the app isn’t directly connected to Glean.

  • URL Bar / Omnibar Search

    Type Gl+tab in any Chromium browser to search Glean directly from the URL bar.

  • Context Menu

    Right-clicking a word or phrase provides an option to search Glean for it.

  • Enhanced Insights

    The browser extension provides additional telemetry that feeds into the Insights section of the Glean Admin UI.

More information: About the Glean Browser Extensions

Supported Browsers

The Glean Browser Extension is available for:

Deploying the Browser Extension

The Glean Browser extension can either be manually installed by your users or pushed to managed devices by your admins.

More information: Deploying the Glean Browser Extensions

macOS App

Glean’s macOS app provides your users with a spotlight-like search experience where they can search across all the tools your company has in use.

More information: Glean macOS

iOS & Android Apps

The Glean app for iOS and Android provide your employees the ability to access Glean Search and Glean Assistant from anywhere.

Deploy the Glean mobile apps to your managed devices to help your employees find exactly what they need when they need it.

More information: Glean iOS & Android