# Using Customized 3D Slicer on Mobile Devices (App or Web Hosting)
**URL:** https://discourse.slicer.org/t/using-customized-3d-slicer-on-mobile-devices-app-or-web-hosting/42772
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 2, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/using-customized-3d-slicer-on-mobile-devices-app-or-web-hosting/42772 "2025-05-02T14:44:44Z")
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### Author:  [@software](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/software)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/using-customized-3d-slicer-on-mobile-devices-app-or-web-hosting/42772/1 "2025-05-02T14:44:44Z")
Hi everyone,
I’ve customized 3D Slicer using the Kitware template and am now exploring the possibility of using this setup on mobile devices, without needing to run the full desktop application on a PC or laptop.
Specifically, I have two main questions:
1. **Is it possible to package or run 3D Slicer as a mobile app (Android/iOS)?**
2. **Alternatively, can 3D Slicer be hosted (e.g., on a server) and accessed via mobile browsers or lightweight client apps?**
The goal is to allow users to interact with the customized Slicer features directly on their mobile devices.
Any suggestions or guidance would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@nagy.attila](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/nagy.attila)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/using-customized-3d-slicer-on-mobile-devices-app-or-web-hosting/42772/2 "2025-05-03T15:44:41Z")
Slicer can be run and accessed from the cloud or from a remote desktop solution. You can find descriptions on hot to run it from AWS, for example. You may even be able to access these from a web browser.
A few links (some may be outdated but still may give a hint)
> [@Running Slicer in a web browser via Amazon AppStreams](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/running-slicer-in-a-web-browser-via-amazon-appstreams/21431):
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> At today’s MONAILabel workshop 100+ people could see how amazingly well Slicer works in a web browser using Amazon AppStream. For those who missed, here is a short demo: [[3D Slicer in a web browser - using Amazon AppStream] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3t5twSV6NE) Questions are already coming in if this is generally available and about how this can be set up. @pieper can you answer this question or ask someone from AWS to answer here?
> [@Install Slicer on AWS EC2 instance](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/install-slicer-on-aws-ec2-instance/11659):
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> Anybody have experience installing Slicer on an AWS EC2 instance? I want to be able to send folders of Dicom images to be processed by a Slicer plugin (already made) in an EC2 instance but I’m not sure what the best way of going about this would be.
> [@Best & easiest web service to run 3d slicer.](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/best-easiest-web-service-to-run-3d-slicer/24649):
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> Hi everyone, What is the easiest appstream or cloud web service I can use to run 3d slicer 5.0.3 for segmentation (files with extension .seg.nrrd & .nii). My laptop cannot run versions beyond 4.8.1 and the segmentation files I have are not working on this version. I am asking the (easiest) because I am not an expert, I just want to run version 5.0.3. Any advice. Thanks in advance.
Porting Slicer to ARM64 is under way, but going one step even further and compiling it for a mobile OS is a totally different league. Not easily doable at all, but it of course depends on the resources 🙂
A few pages that may give you a hint on this topic:
> **[Project Description](https://projectweek.na-mic.org/PW42_2025_GranCanaria/Projects/BuildsOfSlicerForArmBasedSystemsMacAndLinux/)**
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> Website for NA-MIC Project Weeks
> **[NA-MIC Project Weeks](https://projectweek.na-mic.org/PW33_2020_GranCanaria/Projects/SlicerOnAndroid/)**
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> Website for NA-MIC Project Weeks
> **[Project Description](https://projectweek.na-mic.org/PW42_2025_GranCanaria/Projects/ITKForAndroidProj/)**
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> Website for NA-MIC Project Weeks
Edit: there is a VTK repo for Android, that may come handy too:
> **[GitHub - blueebrain/VTKAndroid](https://github.com/blueebrain/VTKAndroid)**
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> Contribute to blueebrain/VTKAndroid development by creating an account on GitHub.
via:
> **[I want to publish VTK to Android (Qt Quick)](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/i-want-to-publish-vtk-to-android-qt-quick/14060/16)**
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> this MR should fix Volume Rendering for VTK with GLES indeed, should it be WASM or mobile platforms.
Hope this helps,
Attila
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### Author:  [@finetjul](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/finetjul)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/using-customized-3d-slicer-on-mobile-devices-app-or-web-hosting/42772/3 "2025-05-04T20:52:34Z")
You might also want to consider [trame-slicer](https://github.com/KitwareMedical/trame-slicer).
We are still (as of spring 2025) ironing things out and will eventually communicate more about it.
Some didn’t wait and have already started using it.