An Applet connects two or more apps or devices together. It enables you to do something that those apps or devices couldn't do on their own.
- Applets are composed of triggers and actions
- Triggers tell an Applet to start, and actions are the end result of an Applet run
To use an Applet, you'll need a free IFTTT account. Then you need to connect your apps and devices to IFTTT, so we can help them talk to each other.
Here's a short tutorial that shows you how easy it is to turn on an Applet.
Applet facts:
- When IFTTT launched in 2010, Applets were called Recipes
- Our name "IFTTT" comes from "if this, then that," because our first Recipes had one trigger and one action
- Today, Applets built in the IFTTT Platform can have more than one action ("if this, then that, and that") and/or conditional filters ("if this, and that, then that")
- Over one billion Applets run every single month
As an IFTTT user, you can turn on Applets made within the IFTTT Platform by our partners or other users, or create your own Applets.