Install a Native App¶

From the Snowflake Marketplace¶

The Snowflake Marketplace is the primary channel for discovering and installing apps. From Snowsight, navigate to the Marketplace, find the listing, and follow the installation prompts. The listing page includes the provider’s description, pricing, and contact information.

For full step-by-step instructions, see Install an app from a listing.

From a private listing¶

Some apps are distributed via private listings shared directly with your account rather than published on the public Snowflake Marketplace. The installation steps are the same, but note the following: private listings may not have gone through the same Marketplace-level review that public listings require. Apply the same security evaluation process described in Evaluate a Native App before installing regardless of how the listing is distributed.

In either case, you can install from the default channel — typically for production-quality versions — or, where available, from the alpha channel for previews or User Acceptance Testing (UAT) prior to production use. See About release channels, versions, and patches for details.

Installation overview¶

Installing a Snowflake Native App creates an APPLICATION object in your account and runs the app’s setup script, which creates the objects the app needs inside its boundary. The app is not fully operational at this point — you will need to approve any App Specs and configure the explicit data access grants the app needs before it can deliver its intended value. Plan for this post-install configuration step with sufficient privileges so that you can approve or decline what the app asks and let app users get a fully functional app.

At installation time, the app presents:

• Its Category 1 privilege requests (the operational resources it needs to create). These are automatically granted to the app if you agree and proceed with the installation.
• Any initial App Specs requiring your approval.

Review these before clicking through. If something in the list is unexpected — a privilege or App Spec you were not told about during procurement — pause and ask the provider to clarify before proceeding.

Apps with containers (SPCS)¶

Apps with containers have the same installation flow with one prerequisite: your account must have Snowpark Container Services enabled. The app may create a compute pool automatically if it has requested the CREATE COMPUTE POOL privilege. Compute pools cannot be shared across apps or between an app and your non-app workloads.

For full step-by-step instructions, see Install and manage an app with containers.

Using Snow CLI¶

Developers and administrators who prefer a command-line workflow can install and manage Native Apps using the Snowflake CLI. They can also perform the necessary app configuration and grants via SQL after successful installation.

For full instructions, see Set up the Snowflake CLI to develop an app.