SAN FRANCISCO -- It's about to become much easier to find and install Facebook apps to your Facebook Timeline. The Facebook App Center,announced in early May, will begin rolling out as soon as tonight to some users.
The App Center, which isn't called a store, will launch with over 600 free Facebook apps. Free for now -- Facebook has announced that some of its partners plan to offer paid apps in the future.
The App Center, which ABC News got a sneak peak at earlier this week, places apps into different categories -- Games, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music -- to make it easier for users to find and install them. Facebook apps, or what has been known as Timeline apps, are apps that live on your Facebook page or are used on Facebook, including games such as Words With Friends.
"We wanted a place to put all of the apps," Facebook communications manager, Malorie Lucich, told ABC News. "The App Center is now full of very high quality apps that are easy for Facebook users to find." Facebook has been selective about what apps appear in the app portal and will continue to be the one to add them. That said, developers can still create apps for Facebook, even if they aren't put in the app portal.