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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
*''[[Darwin's Game]]'' (as pictured above) gives each participant a Sigil, [[Superpower Lottery|
*''[[Ingress The Animation]]'' has Ingress, an app where two factions of the Enlightened and Resistance use the oblivious public to battle each other for XM or "eXotic Matter" (matter from another dimension that can affect the human mind).
* ''[[Real Account]]'': "Real Account" is a social media program which consolidates all one's real-world activities -- including financial and shopping -- into a single all-purpose app. However, for some users, it's much more -- dangerously so: it transports people's minds to a virtual space where they forced to play a death game where if you die in the game, you -- ''and all your online followers'' -- die in the real world. And having ''no'' followers is a virtual death sentence.
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* The smartphone app which can [[Mind Control|hypnotize]] people is a common device in [[Hentai]] manga.
* ''[[Ratman]]'' has the hero Neo, who uses a smartphone-like device to transform into his [[Powered Armor]] as an app. He also has access to other apps that give him different powers and equipment.
** There is also the Hero Booster Program that can give a hero more power. {{Spoiler|
*''[[Gacha Girls Corp]]'' has "Girls Corps", a Gacha mobile game where players gain girls and train them. Heihachi Okura was such an avid player that he got sent to a fantasy world with Girls Corps on his phone to summon girls as his party,
*''[[The Girl in S Rare Gear has Encircled Grimzelia]]''
* ''[[Gate Keepers 21]]'', the [[Darker and Edgier]] sequel to ''[[Gate Keepers]]'', has artificial Gates programmed as cell phone apps.
* From ''[[A Certain Scientific Railgun
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* The [[Augmented Reality Game]] at the heart of the Korean series ''[[Memories of the Alhambra]]''. It runs as an app on a newly-designed electronic contact lens device, and somehow seems able to blur the border between reality and the game world.
== [[Music]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Being descended from a [[Licensed Game]] of ''Digital Devil Story'' (see literature) many games in the ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' series includes variants of the Demon Summoning Program from the original novel. ''Generally'' safer than Nakajima's original version. <-- The wiki for the series lists entries with it. There's stuff to expand this section with. https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Demon_Summoning_Program -->
** ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'': Stephen was developing software for teleportation through technology, but one of his experiments opened to the Expanse and summoned a demon. After the incident, it inspired him to create a program that allows the user to communicate with, contract, and summon demons as allies. The military and the Ring of Gaea learned of the application. However, Stephen emailed copies of the program to random people in hopes of stopping them. The protagonist got this email and installed it on his COMP.
** ''[[Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey]]'' has the Demon Summoning Program that was distributed by an unknown source for the Red Sprite team. Despite the advanced technology of the Schwarzwelt Investigation Team, it couldn't be deciphered or cracked
** ''[[Shin Megami Tensei IV]]'' and ''Apocalypse'' have the people of Tokyo
** ''[[Devil Survivor]]'' is one of the exceptions to the app being safer in adaptions than the original. This version gets widely distributed, forcing Tokyo into a lockdown as demons let loose by inept users and those controlled by criminal gangs overrun the city.
** ''[[Devil Survivor 2]]'' has the Demon Summoning App, where a person can make a contract and summon demons while also giving users magic. There is also the Nicaea β version, which shows a video of a user's death and their friends' demise.
** The Metaverse Navigator or MetaNav, from ''[[Persona 5]]'', is an app given to him by Igor that allows the protagonist to go to the Metaverse. It can also be used by others that the protagonist allies. To use the application, one would need a keyword(s) to enter the Metaverse.
*** From ''Persona 5 Scramble'', EMMA
** ''[[SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI Liberation: Dx2]]'' has Devil Download that mysteriously downloads onto
* ''[[Tokyo Afterschool Summoners]]'' has the SUMMONS app, which gives a user the power to summon another being from another world. It can also grant divine equipment called Sacred Artifacts to the user or the summoned person.
* ''[[Ingress]]'' is an [[Augmented Reality Game]] where two factions
== [[Visual Novel]]s ==
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* ''[[LEGO
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[DICE: The Cube That Changes Everything]]'', Dicers gain an app that allows them to allocate their Dice Points and get notifications on quests to get more Dice along with a store that players can use Dice Points to buy items.
* From ''[[Tower of God]]'', Emily is an intelligent chatting bot made by the Acorn Workshop. In reality, Emily is a leftover experiment whose ultimate goal is
* The Great Labyrinth Era
*''[[Warble]]'' is an app sent to the past to help humanity's survival. People who use it are sent to the Underworld to kill Demons and grow in power through distinct ways through the application.
* ''[[Miracle Appstore]]'' allows the protagonist to buy mystical items with unique powers. The items can only be available through the app and needs to use real-world money.
*''[[Mode II]]'' is sent through a text message to be installed and gives people unique superpowers, like how the protagonist can read hearts through his phone.
* ''[[All Saints Street]]'' has apps that can summon demons straight from Hell or Australia. The summoning happens by using the phone to scan an array; then, the devil transports to the user's place.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': In an ''[[Avengers: Endgame]]'' parody, the villain downloads a Doomsday app that turns people into crystals.
* Richie Rich, friend of the ''[[Harvey Street Girls
== Other Media ==
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