# How to copy an app (and not the easy way)

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**Created:** [October 23, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-copy-an-app-and-not-the-easy-way/33511 "2021-10-23T16:16:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mark\_Turrell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mark_turrell/32/26605_2.png) [@Mark\_Turrell](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mark_Turrell)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-copy-an-app-and-not-the-easy-way/33511/1 "2021-10-23T16:16:36Z")

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Ok, my challenge…. How to copy some apps… but first, the context

I’ve got a telemedicine app for video supervised Covid 19 testing

- user app (made with Google Sheet, glide tables, and hundreds of computed columns)
- agent app (as above, shared GS & GT)

Already I’ve got about 6k registered users… and quickly we will start processing 500-1000 Covid tests a day (taking money too).

Next - it would be great to have Covessa Italy! Or Covessa Switzerland! So…. How can I do that? With the considerations:

1. The data might not be allowed to be shared at all

So…. If I use a glide table, it has the same data across apps… but that is not allowed.  
…. I have about 20 tables, a few with 500+ columns (so manually relying things is a non-starter)

Ideally I’d love to make additional copies of the app for airlines, hotels, even companies for their employees.

But … how?? Does anyone have any experience or insights? I’ve raised this with @Ian (for when he’s back), but I’m open to be creative. It costs 15 euro to do a corona test these days - so 1k tests a day = 30k a month = 450k euro revenue (therefore a problem worth fixing!)

Thanks!