Global Snap Store vs Dedicated Snap Stores

Dedicated Snap Stores are private application repositories hosted and managed by Canonical. Access to Dedicated Snap Stores is restricted to the repository owner’s team, customers, users and business partners. In contrast, the Snap Store is global and public to all. Here is a table outlining some of the key differences in features between the Snap Store and Dedicated Snap Stores:

Global Snap Store

Dedicated Snap Store

Access

Public

Restricted

Snaps published

Seen globally

Seen only by users of a Dedicated Snap Store

Content

Curated by Canonical

Curated by owner

Hosting

Hosted and managed by Canonical

Hosted and managed by Canonical

Security

Security monitoring by Canonical

Security monitoring by Canonical

OTA (over-the-air updates)

Yes

Yes

Refresh control

No

Yes

Account delegation

No

Yes

Proxy to connect with restricted network access

No

Yes

Custom dashboard and API access

No

Yes

Substores

No

Yes