How to rename app in Django

Follow these steps to change an app's name in Django:

1. Rename the folder which is in your project root
2. Change any references to your app in their dependencies, i.e. the app's views.py, urls.py , 'manage.py', and settings.py files.
3. Edit the database table django_content_type with the following command:

UPDATE django_content_type SET app_label='<NewAppName>' 
WHERE app_label='<OldAppName>'

4. Also if you have models, you will have to rename the model tables. For postgres use

ALTER TABLE <oldAppName>_modelName 
RENAME TO <newAppName>_modelName.

5. (For Django >= 1.7) Update the django_migrations table to avoid having your previous migrations re-run:

UPDATE django_migrations SET app='<NewAppName>'
WHERE app='<OldAppName>'. 

Note: there is some debate (in comments) if this step is required for Django 1.8+; If someone knows for sure please update here.

6. If your models.py's Meta Class has app_name listed, make sure to rename that too .
7. If you've namespaced your static or templates folders inside your app, you'll also need to rename those. For example, rename old_app/static/old_app to new_app/static/new_app.
8. For renaming Django models, you'll need to change django_content_type.model entry in DB. For PostgreSQL use

UPDATE django_content_type SET model='<newModelName>' 
where model='<oldModelName>' AND app_label='<OldAppName>'

9. if you're using the new migrations, you'll need to change the app name in the existing migrations files (such as dependency module names) and django_migrations table. It might be better to squash migrations first so there's less to edit.
10. For Postgres, If you want to rename the sequence too, then use

ALTER SEQUENCE <oldAppName>_<modelName>_<PK>_seq 
RENAME TO <newAppName>_<modelName>_<PK>_seq 

Although it is not necessary, the system itself doesn't care about the name. The column DEFAULT stores an OID ('foo_pkey_seq'::regclass), you can change the name of the sequence without breaking that - the OID stays the same.