As you know to enable any bot to perform tasks on your server, you must authorize its external app to access your Discord account. If you want to learn how to authorize any app on Discord, this article is for you. Let’s dive and learn some basic information on Discord apps or bots and how Discord is bringing positive changes with its App Directory.
What Are Discord Apps?
Discord apps or bots are automated tools or software that perform various tasks in Discord servers to help users. These bots or apps are mini-automated software for Discord servers. They can perform tasks — from moderating content, welcoming new members, kicking/banning troubling ones, playing music, processing payments, and rolling dice to playing games. There are tons of ready-made bots that you can add to your servers. If you want, you can even customize and create your own bot.
Where Can You Find Discord Apps?
The bots have become an integral part of Discord due to their growing demands among users. Finally, Discord has also acknowledged them by making them more accessible to users, thereby; encouraging developers to create even more remarkable bots. – There are over 6.7 million active servers on Discord. – More than 30% of servers on Discord use bots. – More than 430,000 bots are used weekly by users. Conventionally, you can find apps and bots on Discord through third-party websites like Top.gg, etc., third-party tools (like Zapier), or searching them on Google. Once you access them, you have to give them permission and authorize them to enable the app to run the bot on your server. Seeing the rising popularity of bots, Discord has recently launched an official App Directory. This directory contains a vast collection of various applications under many categories (gaming, entertainment, utilities, social, etc.) built by the finest developers on Discord. Once you access any app, you can add bots to your servers to offer various utilities and services (moderation, music, gaming, entertainment, etc.) that you desire. You can check Discord App Directory for any server you are an admin or have “Manage Server” permissions. This feature is currently available for Discord desktop versions, not mobile. To access App Directory, follow these steps: Find any app you want to get the bot for automating tasks on your server.
How To Get Apps & Authorize Them on Discord?
You can get any app or bot two ways. The traditional way is to search for it on Google and get it. The newest method is to get it from the Discord App Directory. Whatever way you go, you have to give permission and authorize the app.
Method #1: From Google
Let’s take an example of how to get any bot on Discord: After completion of the process, the bot will automatically appear on your server.
Method #2: From App Directory
You can also access any application for a bot from Discord’s App Directory: Viola! You will get the bot on your server after authorization.
Check All Authorized Apps on Your Discord
You can check all your authorized apps on Discord by going like this:
Discord Desktop
Follow these steps to check all authorized apps on your Discord on your PC:
Mobile App
Follow these steps to check all authorized apps on your Discord on your mobile device:
Last Thoughts
This article elaborated on everything needed to get an app or bot to function on your server. These mini-software apps or bots automate tasks on your servers, from moderating content and playing music to playing games. Seeing their popularity, Discord even launched its App Directory to round up the hard work of developers creating impeccable apps to make it easy for Discord users. Try our tutorial that explains in detail how to authorize these external apps while accessing them from Discord App Directory or third-party tools to enable bots to perform various tasks on your servers.
