
**Awell Extensions allow you to easily connect your homegrown and third-party apps with your care flows.** They help you to extend the functionality of your care fows.

There are two groups of extensions:

1. Extensions for 3rd party apps (a.k.a. Public Extensions)
2. Extensions for your homegrown apps (a.k.a. Private Extensions)

## Public extensions

We have off-the-shelf extensions with the most innovative platforms. Have a look at the [Awell Marketplace](/awell-extensions/marketplace) to browse all the extensions with 3rd party apps.

These extensions are usually built and maintained by Awell but we welcome anyone to contribute to the public extensions. Learn more about building extensions [here](/awell-extensions/docs/getting-started/create-an-extension).

## Private extensions

We allow you to build, test, and deploy your own extensions to connect your homegrown apps into care flows. Awell provides your developers with an SDK/API allowing them to assemble their own piece of software to extend the capabilities of the Awell Platform.

These extensions are not published to the Awell Marketplace but are kept private.


Awell Extensions allow you to extend the functionality of the Awell Platform