Plain

Mobile apps

Plain on iOS and Android: messaging, issues, docs, and push notifications.

Plain ships native apps for iOS and Android. They cover the conversational half of the platform: the things you need when you are away from a keyboard.

Install

Install Plain from the App Store (iOS) or Google Play (Android), then sign in with the same account you use on the web and pick an organisation. The apps use the same authentication as everything else; signing in on your phone does not touch your other sessions.

What the apps cover

  • Messaging. Channels and DMs with mentions, image attachments, and editing. Conversations sync live, the same way they do on the web.
  • Issues. Browse, open, and update issues: status, assignees, labels, and the body itself.
  • Docs. Read and edit documents with the same real-time collaborative editor as the web. Edits from your phone and a teammate's browser merge live.
  • Notifications. The full notification feed, plus push.
  • Calls. Join huddles from a conversation, with mute and camera controls.

Assignments, review requests, and mentions send push notifications. Tapping one deep-links straight to the right screen: the conversation, the issue, the doc. Devices are registered automatically on sign-in and can be removed at any time.

While the app is open it syncs live; in the background, push carries the signal. There is no polling and no "pull to maybe refresh".

What stays on the web

Code browsing, pull request review, CI, packages, analytics, and agent management are web surfaces today. The mobile apps focus on the work that genuinely happens on phones, rather than shipping a cramped version of everything.