Systems and methods for managing app lifecycles on a user device. A user device context is determined and a set of server based apps associated with the context is determined based on the context and a set of conditions associated with server based apps. An indicator for user interface elements for each server based app is sent with the indication of the context. These user interface elements are displayed to a user of the device. In an example, these user interface elements are displayed on a default pane of the device. A user interface element in some examples is able to be selected by a single interaction. Interactions between a user and a user interface for a selected app are received at a. The user interactions are processed to produce results based on the user interface inputs, and the results are sent.