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Data App Enhancements

December 19th, 2025

We've made several enhancements to our Data Apps feature, improving load times and security:

  1. We have consolidated the way we preview and deploy Data Apps, resulting in faster load times when saving edits to your Data App. In some cases this could take over a minute, and now this takes just a couple of seconds.

  2. Data Apps are now more secure so that you must be a NinjaCat user in order to open up a Data App (that has not been made public). See third point here...

  3. If you are interested in sharing a Data App with a non-NinjaCat user, you still have the ability to do so, but we've just made it a more formal and secure method of sharing. There is now an option in the Configure tab of the Data App Builder to "Enable Public URL." This generates a public URL so that once the Data App is saved, this URL can be shared with others (so anyone with the link is able to access your Data App). You also have the option of later disabling this toggle. In doing so, the Data App results in an 'app not found' for any user that attempts to open the link.