diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6542325c5..47233d1f5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -9,4 +9,3 @@ appdates.csv
 _config.yml
 tests/Layout/bin/tmp.*
 tests/Layout/testresult.bmp
-/apps.json
diff --git a/_plugins/AppsJsonGenerator.rb b/_plugins/AppsJsonGenerator.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 1a6525cca..000000000
--- a/_plugins/AppsJsonGenerator.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-class AppsJsonPage < Jekyll::Page
-  def initialize(site)
-    @site = site
-    @base = site.source
-    @basename = 'apps'
-    @ext = '.json'
-    @name = 'apps.json'
-    @data = {}
-  end
-end
-
-# Generates the apps.json
-# out of all the /apps/*/metadata.json files
-class Generator < Jekyll::Generator
-  safe true
-
-  def generate(site)
-    metadatas = site.static_files.select { |file| file.name == 'metadata.json' }
-    json = metadatas.map { |file| JSON.load(open(file.path)) }
-    appsjson = AppsJsonPage.new(site)
-    open(appsjson.path, 'wb') do |file|
-      file << JSON.generate(json)
-    end
-    site.pages << appsjson
-  end
-end
diff --git a/apps.json b/apps.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c62663ee0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps.json
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+---
+layout: none
+---
+{%- assign apps = site.static_files | where: "name", "metadata.json" -%}
+
+[
+
+{%- include_relative {{ apps.first.path }} -%}
+
+{%- for app in apps offset:1 -%}
+,{%- include_relative {{ app.path }} -%}
+{%- endfor -%}
+
+]