diff --git a/containers/libreportal/frontend/components/apps/core/js/apps-grid.js b/containers/libreportal/frontend/components/apps/core/js/apps-grid.js
index 88c3cd0..d0d063a 100644
--- a/containers/libreportal/frontend/components/apps/core/js/apps-grid.js
+++ b/containers/libreportal/frontend/components/apps/core/js/apps-grid.js
@@ -378,11 +378,23 @@ Object.assign(AppsManager.prototype, {
           + `(${shown}${unprefixed.length > 4 ? `, +${unprefixed.length - 4} more` : ''}) `
           + `— those names cannot be made unique per instance`);
       }
-      const short = bits.length ? 'Not available' : 'Not enabled';
+      // Three states, not two. An app with a blocker cannot be instanced; an app
+      // with the flag explicitly false was reviewed and deliberately left off
+      // (a singleton by role — the resolver clients point at, the auth provider
+      // every router points at, the scanner the updater resolves by a fixed
+      // container name); an app with no flag at all has simply never been
+      // looked at. Collapsing the middle case into the last one reports a
+      // decision as an oversight.
+      const decided = typeCfg[`CFG_${U(type)}_MULTI_INSTANCE`] !== undefined;
+      const short = bits.length ? 'Not available' : (decided ? 'Not offered' : 'Not enabled');
       const tip = bits.length
         ? `${typeTitleEarly} ${bits.join('; and ')}.`
-        : `${typeTitleEarly} has no technical blocker — it simply has not been opted in. `
-          + `Set CFG_${U(type)}_MULTI_INSTANCE=true on a reviewed app to allow it.`;
+        : decided
+          ? `${typeTitleEarly} could run as multiple instances, but is deliberately kept to one — `
+            + `it is infrastructure the rest of the box points at. See the note above `
+            + `CFG_${U(type)}_MULTI_INSTANCE in its config for the specific reason.`
+          : `${typeTitleEarly} has no technical blocker — it simply has not been opted in. `
+            + `Set CFG_${U(type)}_MULTI_INSTANCE=true on a reviewed app to allow it.`;
       return `
       <div class="instance-family-bar instance-family-bar-off">
         <span class="instance-family-label">Instances</span>