diff --git a/apps/README.md b/apps/README.md
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--- a/apps/README.md
+++ b/apps/README.md
@@ -47,10 +47,42 @@ Rules enforced by `furtka/manifest.py`:
 - `volumes` — short names, strings. Namespaced to `furtka_<app>_<short>` at runtime.
 - `ports` — integers. Informational only; compose owns the actual port binding.
 - `settings[].name` — must match `^[A-Z_][A-Z0-9_]*$`. This name becomes both the env-var key and the form-field ID.
-- `settings[].type` — one of `text`, `password`, `number`.
+- `settings[].type` — one of `text`, `password`, `number`, `path`.
 - `settings[].required` — if true, the install refuses when the value is empty.
 - `settings[].default` — optional string. Used to pre-fill the form and the bootstrapped `.env`.
 
+### Path-type settings (host bind mounts)
+
+Use `"type": "path"` when the app should point at an existing folder on the host — media libraries, document archives, photo backups. The value is written to `.env` like any other setting, and compose consumes it via `${VAR}` substitution as a bind mount.
+
+```json
+{
+  "name": "MEDIA_PATH",
+  "label": "Medienordner",
+  "description": "Absoluter Pfad zu deinem Medien-Ordner, z.B. /mnt/media.",
+  "type": "path",
+  "required": true
+}
+```
+
+```yaml
+services:
+  app:
+    volumes:
+      - ${MEDIA_PATH}:/media:ro
+```
+
+The installer (`install_from` and `update_env`) refuses values that:
+
+- aren't absolute (must start with `/`),
+- don't exist on the host,
+- aren't directories,
+- resolve (after `Path.resolve()`) into a system-path deny-list: `/`, `/etc`, `/root`, `/boot`, `/proc`, `/sys`, `/dev`, `/bin`, `/sbin`, `/usr/bin`, `/usr/sbin`, `/var/lib/furtka`.
+
+Traversal like `/mnt/../etc` is caught too — the deny-list check runs on the resolved path.
+
+Path settings sit alongside manifest-declared volumes. Use `manifest.volumes` for internal state the app owns (databases, caches, config), and path settings for user data the container should mount and — usually — read without owning. Mounting read-only (`:ro`) is a good default for data the app only consumes.
+
 ## `docker-compose.yaml`
 
 - File extension is `.yaml`. The compose runner hardcodes this — `.yml` will not be found.