Applications in authentik are the other half of providers. They exist in a 1-to-1 relationship, each application needs a provider and every provider can be used with one application.
Applications are used to configure and separate the authorization / access control and the appearance in the Library page.
## Authorization
Application access can be configured using (Policy) Bindings. You can use this to grant access to one or multiple users/groups, or dynamically give access using policies.
By default, all users can access applications when no policies are bound.
When multiple policies/groups/users are attached, you can configure the *Policy engine mode* to either
To hide applications without modifying policy settings and without removing it, you can simply set the *Launch URL* to `blank://blank`, which will hide the application from users.
Keep in mind, the users still have access, so they can still authorize access when the login process is started from the application.
