Introduction

TRMNL's public marketplace lets any user publish or use another user's work.

Our plugin marketplace is where developers can make plugins for other users to install. Beginning November 2025, TRMNL pays developers for their work.

There are 2 approaches to publishing a plugin for other users — Public, or Recipe. Review the differences between them before continuing:

Recipes may be built inside the TRMNL interface, and do not require any 3rd party dependencies, user auth, etc. Whereas Public plugins require the OAuth2 flow. In this scenario, the plugin author (you) maintain user data and are responsible for data privacy and security. TRMNL will fetch markup content at regular intervals and generate an image for the connected user's device to display.

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