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# Application Distribution
To distribute your app with Electron, you need to package and rebrand it. The easiest way to do this is to use one of the following third party packaging tools:
* [electron-forge](https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-forge)
* [electron-builder](https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder)
* [electron-packager](https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-packager)
These tools will take care of all the steps you need to take to end up with a distributable Electron applications, such as packaging your application, rebranding the executable, setting the right icons and optionally creating installers.
## Manual distribution
You can also choose to manually get your app ready for distribution. The steps needed to do this are outlined below.
To distribute your app with Electron, you need to download Electron's [prebuilt
binaries](https://github.com/electron/electron/releases). Next, the folder
containing your app should be named `app` and placed in Electron's resources
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You can rename the `electron` executable to any name you like.
## Packaging Tools
Apart from packaging your app manually, you can also choose to use third party
packaging tools to do the work for you:
* [electron-forge](https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-forge)
* [electron-builder](https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder)
* [electron-packager](https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-packager)
## Rebranding by Rebuilding Electron from Source
It is also possible to rebrand Electron by changing the product name and