# What are H5 and QuickApp?


  This post is part of an article collection where each article builds upon previous articles.
  If you just landed here, you may want to start reading from the [beginning](/mini-app-super-apps/).

## What mini apps are not

Before I go into more detail on the developer experience of mini apps, I want to briefly mention and
set apart two technologies that come up in the context of mini apps, H5 and Quick App.

## H5

H5 apps (or pages) are commonly seen as the predecessor of mini apps. What people mean by H5 is
essentially a well-designed mobile web app (or page) that can be shared easily on chat applications.
H5 is a reference to the HTML5 umbrella of technologies that includes responsive design, snappy CSS
animations, multimedia content, etc. The Chinese Wikipedia actually
[redirects](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5) from H5 to HTML5. A good example of a representative
H5 page experience is the [WeChat H5 boilerplate](https://panteng.github.io/wechat-h5-boilerplate/)
project's demo.

## Quick App

[Quick App](https://www.quickapp.cn/) is an industry alliance consisting of the following members:

- [vivo open platform](https://dev.vivo.com.cn/)
- [Huawei Developer Alliance](http://developer.huawei.com/cn/consumer)
- [OPPO open platform](https://open.oppomobile.com/)
- [Xiaomi Open Platform](https://dev.mi.com/console/app/newapp.html)
- [Lenovo Open Platform](http://open.lenovo.com/developer/)
- [Gionee Open Platform](http://devquickapp.gionee.com/)
- [Meizu Open Platform](http://open.flyme.cn/)
- [ZTE Developer Platform](https://dev.ztems.com/)
- [Nubian Open Platform](http://developer.nubia.com/developer/view/index.html)
- [OnePlus Open Platform](http://www.oneplus.cn/)
- [Hisense Open Platform](http://dev.hismarttv.com/)
- [China Mobile Terminal Corporation](https://www.chinamobileltd.com/tc/global/home.php)

While the technology of Quick App is comparable to "regular" mini apps (see
[Building blocks and compatibility](/mini-app-about/#building-blocks-and-compatibility)), the discovery of Quick App
is different. They are meant to be listed in stores, which come pre-installed on devices of the
manufacturers in the alliance, but can also be shared by means of a deep link (see the
[Quick App showcase](https://www.quickapp.cn/quickAppShow)). They do not run in the context of a
super app, but launch as seemingly self-contained full screen applications that feel deeply integrated into
device. What happens in the background is that they are opened in a full screen view rendered by the
operating system that provides the JavaScript bridge.

  The next chapter covers the [developer experience of mini apps](/mini-app-devtools/).

## Acknowledgements

This article was reviewed by
[Joe Medley](https://github.com/jpmedley),
[Kayce Basques](https://github.com/kaycebasques),
[Milica Mihajlija](https://github.com/mihajlija),
[Alan Kent](https://github.com/alankent),
and Keith Gu.