---
title: "Api Transfer App Owner"
method: POST
path: "/api/apps/{app_id}/owner"
tags: ["apps"]
---

# Api Transfer App Owner

`POST /api/apps/{app_id}/owner`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://app.getdot.ai` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://app.getdot.ai/api/apps/{app_id}/owner`
- Auth: one of:
  - API key in header `X-API-KEY`
  - API key in cookie `Authorization`
  - OAuth 2 (password, token URL `/api/auth/token`)

Hand an app to a new owner — metadata-only edit of the owner meta.

Ownership now grants edit, so it needs a real door: without one, an app
whose owner has left is editable by admins alone, forever. Admins may
transfer any app; the current owner may hand off their own.

Personal apps are owned by the folder they sit in, so transferring one means
moving it — use `/move` instead of silently disagreeing with the path.

## Path parameters

- `app_id` string, required

## Request body

- TransferOwnerRequest
  - `owner` string, required

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- object

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/getdot/apis/dot-api-2.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/getdot/apis/dot-api-2/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/getdot/apis/dot-api-2/revisions/d26fe7163a7f?raw)